Comcast this month unveiled its first-ever five-year price guarantee for new Xfinity Internet customers, with pricing starting at $55/mo nationwide for the 400 Mbps tier. Impact: The decision to move forward with a price guarantee comes as Comcast focuses on providing customers with transparent pricing that provides a set, locked-in price without an annual contract …
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The Trump Administration’s wide-ranging tariffs will undoubtably have a negative impact on telecom providers, with most of that expected to come from an increase in equipment costs that will make network upgrades and expansions more expensive. Impact: The tariffs on China, Vietnam, and the European Union potentially could do real damage to telecom supply chains …
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T-Mobile continued to lead the way on fixed wireless access services throughout 2024, but Verizon started to narrow the gap in quarterly net adds and AT&T saw its Internet Air numbers increase faster than expected. Impact: Despite a bit of a slowdown in quarterly net adds throughout 2024, fixed wireless isn’t going anywhere anytime soon …
Both AT&T and Verizon closed 2024 with decent fiber growth designed to propel their updated fiber expansion strategies forward and capture more convergence opportunities. Impact: As noted by CEO John Stankey, AT&T ended the year with strong Q4 fiber results, which he claimed has the company well-positioned for a “new era of growth” after years …
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The question of whether fixed wireless access service offers providers a long-term wireless broadband solution or will merely act as a stopgap during the transition from DSL to fiber depends on which competitor you ask. Impact: A Broadband Nation Expo panel tried to answer that question last week and got very different perspectives from two …
Because mobile device unlocking policies vary significantly from carrier-to-carrier, the FCC this month moved to put forth a uniform 60-day unlocking requirement designed to make it easier for consumers to change providers. Impact: In a unanimous 5-0 decision, the FCC approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that calls for mobile carriers to unlock mobile devices …
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Dish parent company EchoStar this month unveiled a plan to revamp Boost Mobile in an effort to turn the company’s wireless fortunes around after the less than successful Boost Infinite postpaid launch in late 2022. Impact: EchoStar CEO Hamid Akhavan previously alluded to the need to revamp its Boost Mobile service on the company’s Q1 …
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AT&T last week revealed a massive data breach involving call and text records logged from the vast majority of its mobile customers, with the incidents occurring between May and October 2022, and then again on Jan. 2, 2023. Impact: This security breach, first discovered in April, affected “nearly all” AT&T wireless customers, including subscribers to …
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Following a Fast-Track SWIFT challenge from AT&T earlier in June, the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau’s National Programs last week recommended that T-Mobile discontinue or clarify the “Price Lock” claim around its 5G Home Internet service. Impact: According to a statement by NAD, the T-Mobile price lock claim appeared in print, online, …
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The race to be the first mobile carrier to launch satellite-to-cellular connectivity should start to get pretty heated this summer after the news that AT&T signed a commercial deal last week with satellite connectivity partner AST SpaceMobile that runs through 2030. Impact: The deal is significant, because it means once AST SpaceMobile gets its first …
