AT&T Grants SlingPlayer 3G Streaming Access!

AT&T has announced that it’s granting an optimized version of SlingPlayer Mobile [$29.99 - iTunes link] permission to send TV over their 3G network, something that up until now has been expressly banned under AT&T terms of service.

“Just as we’ve worked with Sling Media in this instance, we look forward to collaborating with other developers so that mobile customers can access a wider, more bandwidth-sensitive, and powerful range of applications in the future,” said Ralph de la Vega, president ..read more

AT&T Has “Not Made Any Decision to Implement Tiered Pricing”

How Should AT&T Fix Their Network?(polls)

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega has told the Wall Street Journal that despite what he said back in October and earlier in December:

“We have not made any decision to implement tiered pricing.”

Which is a weasel-wordy way of saying, contrary to previous statements that suggested they might do just that, AT&T isn’t planning on charging customers by the byte — yet. And they’re still going to call their plans “unlimited” even as they ..read more

AT&T Says It Won’t Tier Smartphone Plans

AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega recently said that, “We have not made any decision to implement tiered pricing,” but noted that the company is seeking ways to entice customers to take wireless web surfing off its 3G network. …(Read More)

AT&T Ready to Improve Service in New York and San Francisco — Just Don’t Use that Unlimited Data

AT&T is finally opening up and coming clean about their sub par service that is offered in areas of New York and San Francisco. Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T Mobility, recently spoke at a investors conference regarding the poor service.

“This is going to get fixed, in both of those markets, I am very confident that you’re going to see significant progress.”

Obviously this is good news for those of you in these areas. Worse news? AT&T might ..read more

AT&T Admits to Network Woes in NYC and SF

AT&T Mobility Ralph de la Vega recently said that its network in the New York City and San Francisco markets is “performing at levels below our standards.” He noted, “This is going to get fixed. In both of those …(Read More)

AT&T Planning to Crackdown On Bandwidth Hogs

AT&T Mobility CES Ralph de la Vega told investors at a UBS conference in New York that the company plans to implement measures to reduce the strain on its network. He said, “We need to educate the customer to …(Read More)

CEOh-SNAP: AT&T Says (Again!) iPhone Exclusivity Will End

AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega stated that his carrier’s exclusive agreement to sell Apple’s iPhone in the US… will end one day. Of course, we knew this. You knew this. AT&T and Apple knew this. Everybody knew this, because they’ve said it before. Still, on the eve of a highly successful quarterly results report, [...]

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CEOh-SNAP: AT&T Says (Again!) iPhone Exclusivity Will End

Poll: How Much iPhone Data Are You Using?

How much iPhone data are you using each month?(trends)

In light of AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega saying iPhone users user more data than any other smartphone user, indeed that iPhone users “crowd out” other users, and that they may have to “manage” iPhone data, TiPb reader Louie asked if we’d run a poll to find out just what the numbers looked like.

We’ve asked this before, though not in poll form, and while reader polls are by no means scientific, ..read more

AT&T Wants to Throttle iPhone Data… or Just Charge More for Heavy Usage?

PCWorld has an article up saying that, based on AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega’s comments during yesterday’s CTIA Keynote, AT&T was laying the groundwork to “manage” or “throttle” iPhone users’ data.

de la Vega did use most of his time, after announcing VoIP over 3G for iPhone, to rail against the FCC’s net neutrality push. He claimed a small percentage of heavy data users (i.e. iPhone users) were hogging most of the limited data resources, and “crowding” out regular (i.e. ..read more