Even as broadband penetration in the USA increases, many users are still frustrated with the lack of enough data transmisson speed to bring really great internet functionality to all the devices in your life.
Ralph de la Vega, COO of ATT, says that things are going to change fast and get faster. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley event he said that sometime in 2009 ATT would be able to deliver speed in excess of 20 megabits per second. That is fast enough to allow some spectacular streaming of data and video content, provide downloadable movies to More»

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Sprint’s wimax initiatives appeared to falter last year as they faced serious challenges from ATT and Verizon and broke up with Clearwire, but there is a new broadband wind in Sprint’s sails and the New York Times is reporting that a major wimax technology consortium will be announced soon - probably tomorrow. The consortium includes Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner and Clearwire.
Two big advantages of wimax broadband is that it can provide extensive rural connectivity where a single tower can provide broadband coverage over an area of many square miles. Also, wimax offers great More»

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ATT will be laying off another 4650 people, mostly in the residential phone portion of the ATT empire. This is a large number although it represents only about 1.5% of the total ATT global workforce. In December of 2006 ATT purchased Bell South for 86 Billion and announced 10,000 layoffs at that time.
ATT appears to be hurting as customers switch away from residential lines towards mobile offerings, and Verizon’s new dominance in the mobile space as a result of taking away much of the 700 MHZ spectrum in the recent auction may be More»

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