Shares were up 4.3%, after AT&T;'s announcement that it will offer the iPhone without a contract at $599.[...]

AT&T is moving its headquarters from San Antonio to Dallas. Remember the Alamo![...]

Today, AvianResearch released its latest monthly survey designed to gage which handsets are selling well -- or not -- at retail stores of AT&T;, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. And Motorola isn't doing well.[...]

The witching hour is nigh as July marks the month in which Federal Communications Commission honchos pass judgment on Qwest’s forbearance requests in Denver, Phoenix, Minneapolis and Seattle. If the requests pass, the telco can raise the cost-based prices it charges smaller companies. The FCC must decide by July 26.The [...]

Tennessee has been a hotbed of telecom issues of late, with lots of money being spent lobbying legislators during the fight by AT&T to get its U-verse TV service Okayed for statewide deploymnent. There have also been battles brewing between cable and municipalities over the public push into private enterprise. [...]

A vote in favor of telco amnesty for those companies that aided and abetted the government in its wireless wiretapping program was worth more than a vote against, it appears. Dems who switched their “Nay” votes got twice as much money, on average, from telcom political action groups than their [...]