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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 5, 2013

, Feb 5th 2013 Discuss [0]

Welcome to Tuesday evening everyone. Today we heard that Dell will be going private with the help of a $2 billion loan from Microsoft, while HP reacted to the news of the deal by saying that Dell has a "very tough road ahead." We learned that OUYA will be sold at retail stores in June, and the 128GB iPad is now available on Apple's online store. Samsung's Galaxy brand has eclipsed Android, and Microsoft announced that it will be opening 11 new stores in the US by summer. Read The Full Story

AT&T adds several new markets to LTE network

, Feb 5th 2013 Discuss [0]

AT&T is continuing its rollout of 4G LTE to newer markets, and today the carrier announced several new additions to the LTE heat map. Six locations in all now have AT&T's blazing-fast data speeds, including Northwest Georgia; Albany, GA; Cecil County, MD; Norfolk/Portsmouth/Virginia Beach in Virginia; Montgomery County, PA; and Bucks County, PA. Read The Full Story

AT&T experiences record mobile traffic usage during the Super Bowl

, Feb 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

The power outage during the Super Bowl was a good thing for both AT&T and the 49ers, it would seem, with the carrier experiencing the highest-ever mobile traffic usage figures in-stadium. A total of 78GB of data was used within the Superdome during the half-time show, an 80-percent increase over 2012. The number jumps to 388GB of total traffic during the game. Read The Full Story

Verizon sells $1.9 billion worth of spectrum to AT&T

, Jan 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

Buying and selling spectrum isn't really anything new -- carriers have been doing it for quite some time, but it's a bit rare when two giant wireless providers make such a deal. Today, Verizon and AT&T have agreed upon a deal that would see AT&T pay $1.9 billion to Verizon in exchange for 39 700MHz spectrum licenses. Read The Full Story

AT&T posts $3.9 billion net loss for Q4 2012

, Jan 24th 2013 Discuss [0]

AT&T is joining the slew of other companies posting quarterly results this week, with the company releasing its Q4 2012 financials today. The company experienced another loss in Q4 2012, but the good news is that AT&T's loss is growing smaller year-over-year. For Q4 2012, the company posted a net loss of $3.9 billion, which is compared to AT&T's net loss of $6.7 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Read The Full Story

AT&T U-Verse issues being resolved today

, Jan 24th 2013 Discuss [0]

In case you missed the news, some U-Verse customers in a number of different areas around the country have been experiencing service outages since the beginning of the week. When we first told you about the problems, AT&T was being vague on what was causing them and when service would return. Today is a different story, as AT&T is saying that service is returning for many affected customers. Read The Full Story

AT&T U-Verse outages hitting some US consumers

, Jan 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're an AT&T U-Verse customer, then there's a chance that you've been experiencing some problems with your service lately. AT&T U-Verse service has been suffering from outages in some areas of the US, with little in the way of an explanation from the company. All we know is that AT&T is working to bring U-Verse service, which includes TV, Internet, and phone, back to these affected areas. Read The Full Story

iPhone the Q4 smartphone champ says Kantar as Android deserters grow

, Jan 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Apple's iOS clung to the top-spot for smartphone platform share in the US in Q4 2012, new research suggests, maintaining more than half of the market, though the gap between AT&T and Verizon sales has narrowed. iPhones made up 51.2-percent of the US smartphone sales, Kantar World Panel claims, while Android dropped a little to 44.2-percent, a fall of just 0.6-percent year-on-year. Read The Full Story

AT&T to acquire Alltel for $780 million

, Jan 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

AT&T announced today that it has signed a deal with Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (ATNI) to acquire the company's Alltel US retail wireless operations for $780 million in cold, hard cash. The agreement includes the acquisition of Alltel's wireless properties, such as licenses, network assets, retail stores, and almost 600,000 subscribers. Read The Full Story

AT&T weighing Euro carrier acquisition tip insiders

, Jan 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

AT&T is weighing European carrier acquisition options, insiders claim, hoping to boost its performance by reaching outside of the increasingly smartphone-saturated US market, despite the risks inherent in such expansion. Potential targets - with the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands cited as likely candidates - are being explored, sources tell the WSJ, though AT&T's executive team isn't entirely convinced that it's even the best strategy. UK carrier Everything Everywhere - the UK's first 4G network - and the Netherlands' Royal KPN are tipped to be on the watch-list. Read The Full Story

AT&T allowing FaceTime over cellular for all tiered data customers

, Jan 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

After several months from Apple announcing FaceTime over cellular, AT&T is finally rolling the feature out to all of its tiered data customers. AT&T cites that its testing phase for FaceTime over cellular is complete, and will be enabled for all of its customers, including those on tiered data plans at no additional cost. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 15, 2013

, Jan 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

Welcome to Tuesday evening, everyone. The afternoon started off with something of a bang with Facebook's big event, during which the company revealed the service's new Graph Search and explained the difference between the new feature and traditional web search. It also announced that it was partnering with Bing for search results in Graph Search, while we used the latest installment of SlashGear 101 to give you all of the details about this new feature. Read The Full Story
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