Report: AT&T plans layoffs despite claiming tax cut would create 7,000 jobs

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) AT&T is reportedly planning a significant round of layoffs, despite receiving a large tax break and various regulatory favors such as the repeal of net neutrality rules. Motherboard reported the pending layoffs yesterday, saying it obtained the information from AT&T internal documents and an anonymous AT&T source. “A […]

AT&T makes it more expensive to cancel DirecTV or Internet service

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich) AT&T will start charging customers for the full month after they cancel TV or Internet service, ending its customer-friendly practice of providing a prorated credit for the final month. Even if you cancel on the first day of a new billing period, you’ll be charged for the full month […]

House Democrats to investigate Trump actions against Amazon, AT&T

Now that Democrats are poised to control of the House of Representatives, they’re planning investigations into the Trump administration’s actions against technology companies. Inbound House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff told Axios in an interview that Democrats would investigate whether President Trump misused his power in attempts to punish Amazon and block AT&T’s merger with […]

AT&T steps up copyright enforcement, kicks customers off network

Enlarge / The entrance to an AT&T store in San Francisco, California. (credit: Getty Images | Robert Alexander ) AT&T is terminating the broadband service of more than a dozen customers who were accused multiple times of copyright infringement, according to a report by Axios today. “It’s the first time AT&T has discontinued customer service […]

AT&T promised lower prices after Time Warner merger—it’s raising them instead

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) AT&T is raising the base price of its DirecTV Now streaming service by $ 5 per month, despite promising in court that its acquisition of Time Warner Inc. would lower TV prices. AT&T confirmed the price increase to Ars and said it began informing customers of the increase this past weekend. […]

Meet the 8 spooky AT&T buildings that almost certainly also serve the NSA

Enlarge / The microwave tower on the roof of 420 South Grand Ave. was decommissioned in the 1990s and stands in contrast to the more modern buildings in downtown Los Angeles. (credit: Henrik Moltke) In a new article published Monday, The Intercept has now revealed what it describes as secret AT&T facilities across several American […]