At the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wireless carrier AT&T announced that it had successfully built and tested a universal SIM that would allow easy Machine-to-machine communication across the globe.
Heralding the new innovation that the company built in conjunction with Jasper Wireless, Glenn Lurie, president of emerging segments, AT&T said that with the single SIM dedicated exclusively to the Global M2M Offering, the benefit would come from a single solution, backed by …

An iPhone user and AT&T customer has taken the U.S. mobile communications company to court in California over data throttling and gets awarded $850.
The news first came to light via a report from The Associated Press which said that Matt Spaccarelli was awarded in a small claims action against AT&T.
The AP writes that Pro-tem Judge Russell Nadel of the Ventura Superior Court in Simi Valley on handed down the decision on Friday.
The judge apparently saw that it was unfair of AT&T to …

Sprint have a lot to be happy about this year because the company’s earnings call has come with a bunch of great news, not just good news. For the third largest carrier in the US, having it out with the big boys was never going to be easy but slow and steady seems to be just about right a formula for Sprint.
The company reported the best ARPU (Average Return Per Unit) in the industry coming in at $3.69, a number that many of the bigger carriers will be green with envy over owing to the …

AT&T reported Thursday that it posted a $6.68 billion loss for the last three months of last year largely owing to the foiled attempt of the US telecoms giant to acquire wireless carrier T-Mobile.
This translates to a loss of $1.12 per share of AT&T compared to a profit of $1.1 billion or 18 cents per share for the same quarter in 2010.
A huge part of this loss – 44 cents per share – is attributed by AT&T to its decision to drop its bid to acquire T-Mobile from parent company …

AT&T has today released details on the new data tariffs it shall be rolling out on Sunday. The new tariffs, which will affect new customers to the network, will carry a higher cost tariff to users although the data allocated will also increase. With the new data plans, smartphone owners will pay $20 for 300MB, $30 for 3GB under the Data Pro 3GB plan and $50 for 5GB under the 5GB Data Pro plan, which also includes mobile hotspot and tethering. Additional data for the two latter plans will …

The Nokia Lumia 900 will be coming exclusively to AT&T for the U.S. market this coming March, a post on the Nokia Developer Website reveals.
The post says:
Nokia’s newest smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 900, was introduced this week at the International CES 2012 in Las Vegas by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. (Watch Elop discuss Nokia’s strategy focusing on the new Nokia Lumia phones running Microsoft Windows Phone during the AT&T Developer Summit that took place at CES.)
The Nokia …

The upcoming Nokia Ace (a.k.a. Nokia Lumia 900) will have big bucks backing it up in the form of a promotion as it launches, a new report suggests.
According to BetaNews, the Nokia Ace will have a promotion with a budget of around $100 million as it launches in the second quarter.
Citing unnamed sources who told them the information about the Galaxy Ace launch and marketing budget, the site writes that the Nokia Ace will launch in late March.
Together with its launch, Microsoft, Nokia and …

A press shot of the AT&T Galaxy Note has been leaked courtesy of a new report citing an anonymous email.
According to SamMobile, they received an email just before the end of the year which contains a press shot of the AT&T Galaxy Note.
The Samsung Galaxy Note has already been released in other markets around the world but it is yet to be officially launched on any network in the U.S.
Furthermore, the publication says that the AT&T Galaxy Note will have a neat addition not present …

AT&T will get the first batch of 4G LTE Windows Phones in the U.S., WinSupersite’s Paul Thurrott is reporting.
Thurrott says that “Microsoft and its Windows Phone partners do indeed intend to release a number of LTE devices in the coming half-year, all on AT&T.”
According to the report, which doesn’t cite any source where the information is coming from, plans for the 4G LTE Windows Phones to be released by Microsoft and its partners will be revealed officially at the Consumer …

Despite many setbacks with its planned acquisition, AT&T has said that it will pursue its planned merger with T-Mobile against odds.
The comment was made by AT&T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens on Wednesday at the UBS Conference on Global Media held in New York.
According to Stephens who spoke on Wednesday morning, AT&T will “continue to move forward… to complete the T-Mobile transaction.”
He said that his company and T-Mobile are “motivated to complete a transaction …