AT&T has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless after Big Red launched that “There’s a map of that” campaign. AT&T alleges that Verizon is misleading customers into thinking that AT&T doesn’t offer coverage in various areas of the U.S. The Trial has been filed in the Federal District Court in Atlanta and while we’ll be waiting for a ruling in favor of either AT&T or Verizon, AT&T has instructed its employees on how to respond to any questions regarding the trial.

Below you’ll find the memo with all the precise instructions:

Channels: COR, DMDR, LD, and NR Internal
Roles: Reps & Above
Markets: All
Contact: Your Manager

AT&T filed a lawsuit on November 4, 2009 against Verizon’s “There’s a Map for That” advertising campaign. Independent research shows that the maps in the advertisements mislead consumers into believing that we do not offer any wireless service in the vast majority of the country. In fact, AT&T’s 2.5G EDGE network covers 1.75 million square miles of the United States, reaching some 296 million people, roughly the same number reached by Verizon’s network. This network supports popular services like e-mail, surfing the Web, texting, and voice calling, including the activities shown in the Verizon TV advertisements. In addition, our 3G service, the nation’s fastest, is available in more than 9,400 cities and towns.

We filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court in Atlanta and asked that Verizon be prohibited from misleading consumers regarding the scope of our wireless network.

How should I respond to customers who ask about the lawsuit?

While we cannot speculate on the complaint filed, it is a great opportunity to remind customers of AT&T’s many advantages that over 81 million customers enjoy, including:

* Best Network
* The best coverage worldwide (More Bars in More PlacesTM).
* The nation’s fastest 3G network and the only national 3G carrier providing simultaneous voice and data usage.
* The most devices that work in the most places including Japan and South Korea (3G 2100 MHz device required).
* The nation’s largest wireless and wireline broadband provider.
* The nation’s largest company-owned and operated WiFi network with more than 20,000 hotspots, including Starbucks, McDonald’s and Barnes and Noble, as well as access to over 120,000 hotspots around the world.
* The leading provider of local and long distance voice services.

Greatest Value – The fairest value with Rollover® allowing customers to keep their unused minutes month to month.
Best Products - The most innovative exclusive devices such as the iPhoneTM 3GS.
Most Convenient Services
* The most customer friendly free self-service tools with *Services for checking usage, paying bills, and adding features.
* The most convenient and cost-effective way for customers to manage their accounts with Combined Billing for wireless and wireline products.
* Industry leading 30-day satisfaction guarantee.

As always, if you have an inquiry from the media, please refer them to your local media relations team member.

So what do you have to say? Do you have any questions for AT&T? Who would you like to see winning?

via mobilecrunch

Tags: At&T, Uncategorized, Verizon

Before you read on please make note that this is only a rumor and has not been confirmed in any way shape or form — BGR brings us news that AT&T and Apple are pondering whether or not to launch an 8GB iPhone 3GS for $99 that would be presumably replace the current $99 iPhone 3G.

Like I said, there isn’t very much evidence to back this up but if this goes down it would reportedly be a move to combat the DROID handsets popping up on Verizon.

Tags: Apple, Apple, At&T, At&T, Cell Phones, Droid, iPhone, iphone 3g, iPhone 3GS, Mobile News, Mobile Software

Hot news for the two giants of the US that fight for a bigger share on the mobile telecommunications market, and I’m talking about AT&T and Verizon.

In this case it was AT&T that sued Verizon and the reason is pretty simple: a misleading advertising campaign, which is named “There’s a Map for that” and is actually a joke related to an AT&T campaign called “There’s an App for That”.

The misleading information is related to a map made by Verizon, in which shows that AT&T doesn’t have much network coverage. But the only detail they forgot to mention, is that they are only counting the 3G network and not EDGE network, and that’s why the AT&T map is full of blank spaces, which could lead to customers having bad ideas…

Tags: At&T, At&T, Mobile News, Verizon, Verizon

Clyde Bernard Franklin filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama two days ago. The subject of this complaint was a class action lawsuit that alleges that Apple and AT&T misrepresented the iPhone’s MMS capabilities.

Details of this case is pretty sketchy, and this isn’t the first time a lawsuit has been filed concerning the MMS feature. Two separate ones were filed last August.

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Tags: At&T, AT&T class action lawsuit, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone lawsuit, iPhone MMS

The Droid might be a Verizon Wireless exclusive phone in the USA but that doesn’t mean that Motorola shouldn’t sell in other markets too. After all the Droid is probably going to be one of the best Android phones around and I’m pretty sure that Motorola will want to cash in on all that hotness.

The FCC has revealed exactly such a version of the Droid that could be used all around the GSM world. What’s more interesting is that the GSM Droid has support for AT&T’s WCDMA 850 and 1900MHz bands which also happen to be used by carriers in Canada. Not that Verizon will share the Droid with AT&T any time soon! But Rogers, Bell and Telus will probably want to launch the phone in the following months or, dare we say, in the following weeks?

Will you buy the Droid next week from Verizon or are you waiting for a GSM version of it?

via MobileCrunch

Tags: Android, At&T, At&T, Bell, Canada, Droid, GSM, Mobile News, Motorola, Other Brands, Rogers, Telus, Verizon, Verizon Wireless

AT&T is still riding on the iPhone wave and I don’t want to imagine what will happen when they will eventually lose the iPhone exclusivity deal. The company has reported another great quarter despite the recession which is still being felt in various other domains. From the 4.3 million handsets activated by AT&T last quarter 74% or 3.2 million were iPhones. 1.28 million of those 3.2 million iPhone customers were new AT&T customers. That says a lot about the popularity of Apple’s phone and we can expect a lot more people to go for the iPhone in the following months.

AT&T has reached 81.6 million subscribers right now and about 25% of those are playing with iPhones. I bet that the competition is really annoyed for not having said yes to Apple a long time ago when Cupertino was looking for a partner to start selling the iPhone.

On a different note, the more people are buying iPhones and 3G devices, the worse 3G service they’re going to get from AT&T. Any thoughts on the matter?

Tags: Alltel, At&T, At&T, financial report, iPhone, Mobile News, Portable Devices, sales

With all the hot cellphones which are about to arrive you’re likely to disregard this Pantech Reveal. But if you have a tight budget to deal with then maybe this $80 phone is the thing for you as long as you’re willing to accept a new 2-year contract. A $50 mail-in rebate is also involved so remember to get your money back from AT&T after you purchase the Reveal.

The Reveal will offer you a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 3G connectivity, 1.3-megapixel camera, full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, keypad and microSD support. Too bad that the LCD display is so tiny! I would gladly sacrifice the keypad for a larger panel, but that’s just me! What do you think?

via businesswire

Tags: At&T, Cell Phones, Mobile News, Pantech, Pantech, Portable Devices, Reveal

In case you don’t want a new Android phone and you’re rather interested in a new Windows Mobile 6.5 phone then you should go to an AT&T store today. The HTC Tilt 2 is now available for sale. The Tilt 2 will be available for $349.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate and a new 2-year contract. The phone is just a little more expensive than the CLIQ but it does have some interesting features that can’t be ignored: WVGA touchscreen display, full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3.2-megapixel camera and Microsoft latest mobile OS running in the background. So what do you say folks? Are you ready to purchase your first Windows Mobile 6.5 phone? Or would you rather wait a while longer until the HTC HD2 becomes available?

via AT&T

Tags: At&T, At&T, hd2, HTC, HTC, microsoft, Mobile News, Tilt2, Windows Mobile 6.5

A few months ago we got our first glimpse of the white BlackBerry Bold but had no idea when we would be able to buy it or for what carrier. Well, it seems like AT&T will be the carrier getting the stylish device on October 18th.

Exactly how much will we be able to buy this for? Most likely right around the black Bold’s $199 price point.

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Tags: At&T, At&T, BlackBerry Bold, Cell Phones, Mobile News, Mobile Software, release date, Research In Motion, white

A little while ago we told you that Best Buy is the exclusive retailer of Nokia’s first netbook, the Booklet 3G. At that time no carrier was willing to subsidized the netbook, but all that has changed by now. AT&T is the first carrier that’s going to sell the Nokia Booklet 3G in the USA. The netbook will be available for $299 with a 2-year contract. That’s the cheapest version available with a $60 per month data plan. Other prices will also be available with cheaper monthly data plans and AT&T will also sell the device without a contract for $599. The netbook will be available in just over a week, on October 22, as soon as Windows 7 will be launched. Will you get it?

via Engadget

Tags: At&T, At&T, best buy, Booklet 3G, netbook, Nokia, Nokia, Windows Mobile 7

Remember how AT&T complained to the FCC about Google’s Google Voice application? Apparently the FCC took things very seriously. The Commission is now investigating Google. It looks that the feature of Google Voice that lets the app block certain call poses a serious issue. Google Voice does block calls to rural services, conference call services and chat lines in order to help the user save some money. But that’s not exactly the best of intentions is it?

FCC has sent a letter to Google asking it about the way calls get routed with Google Voice and how the whole numbers blocking works. We’ll be curious to see what the FCC has to say about Google Voice. Google on the other hand will defend itself by saying it’s only offering a software solution which can’t be subject to carrier laws. In other words, it will be some time until we see Google Voice on any iPhones!

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Tags: Apple, At&T, At&T, fcc, Google, Google, Google Voice, iPhone, Mobile News

RIM’s newest BlackBerry, the 9700 also known as the Onyx or the Bold 2 is coming to U.S. customers in the following weeks from both T-Mobile and AT&T. What about Canadian the consumer you ask? Well it looks like Rogers Wireless is going to bring the Bold 2 to Canada starting with October 26. It’s being speculated that the 9700 will be available for $299 with a new three-year contract but as long as we don’t have the actual press release to back that up, we can’t tell you anything for sure. What do you say folks? Are you ready for the new Bold in town?

via BGR

Tags: 9700, At&T, At&T, BlackBerry, Bold, Bold 2, Mobile News, Onyx, Portable Devices, Research In Motion, RIM, Rogers, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

It’s probably too late for RIM to launch these white smartphones right here. Instead of the Bold and the Curve 8520 you could very well choose a Bold 2 or a Storm 2. However the white versions will be also available at some point in the very near future. The white Bold 9000 will be available from AT&T starting October 18 while the white Curve 8520 should already be available in T-Mobile stores.

There are no prices available for the white Bold but the white Curve will cost $129.99 after a $170 instant discount and with a new contract. Anyone excited about this angelic BlackBerry smartphones?

via intomobile

Tags: 8520, At&T, At&T, BlackBerry, Bold, Curve, Research In Motion, RIM, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, white

The next Bold version, also known as the BlackBerry 9700 Onyx is apparently coming from two U.S. carriers this month. Both T-Mobile and AT&T will launch the Bold 2 on, or around October 21. The phone will be available in the following weeks although there are no details regarding prices from neither AT&T nor T-Mobile. The Bold has been, and still is, one of the most popular phones launched by RIM so far which means that we’re probably going to love the Bold 2 as well. What’s the next phone that you’re most likely to buy? The Bold 2 or the Storm 2?

via Engadget

Tags: 9700, At&T, At&T, BlackBerry, Bold, Bold 2, Onyx, Research In Motion, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

Amazon has decided to drop the price of the Kindle 2 and now the eBook reader is available for just $259 for U.S. customers. That’s $40 less than the previous price tag. If you were waiting for it to get cheaper, you can go ahead and order it right now.

In case you’re travelling outside of the USA and want to take the Kindle with you then you’ll be even happier to find out that Amazon has an international version of it. The international Kindle 2 comes with a GSM radio and an AT&T SIM card that will let you download eBooks while you’re away. The international Kindle 2 costs $279 and it’s available to pre-order. If you choose this version then you should also know that your books will be charged an extra $1.99 per download when you’re not in the USA.

via Amazon

Tags: Amazon, At&T, At&T, GSM, international, Kindle 2, Mobile News

It was recently announced that AT&T will now allow mobile applications to make VoIP calls using nothing more than the device’s 3G connection.

You should make note that prior to this announcement mobile applications, such as Skype for the iPhone, were only able to make VoIP calls using WiFi, but not anymore.

Following this announcement you can expect a whole influx of apps in the App Store, and other app stores, that allow for VoIP calling.

via engadget

Tags: 3G, Apple, At&T, At&T, Cell Phones, iPhone, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Skype, VoIP

On top of the two Samsung Cellphones presented by AT&T, more specifically the Mythic and the Flight, they’ve added another two phones but this time made by Pantech.

As stated before, these two phones will come loaded with Opera Mini Browser. Unfortunately we don’t have any information about their price or release date, but we’ll keep you updated.

The Pantech Reveal is on the slider category, and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard + a numeric keypad on the outside. The Pantech Impact is a 3G phone with a touchscreen, that has a secondary display located in the inside, and a QWERTY keyboard as well.

Tags: At&T, Cell Phones, impact, Pantech, Pantech, Reveal

AT&T has added two new cellphones made by Samsung to their already big catalogue. These devices can’t be considered top-notch per se, but they are pretty good taking in consideration the price.

The Samsung Mythic is priced at $200 after rebate, and will only become available to the public next month, on November. It has a TouchWiz style, a 3.3-inch display screen, and is compatible with the AT&T Navigator service.

As for the Samsung Flight, it will also become available in November, but it is a bit cheaper at $100. It has a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard.

Both models will feature the Opera Mini browser.

Tags: At&T, At&T, Cell Phones, Flight, mythic, Samsung, Samsung

About a month ago we told you that the HTC Tilt 2 would be made available for AT&T on October 6th. Well, it seems that BGR dug up some dirt on the phone and have found out that it will in fact be shipping on October 8th.

So, those of you who are looking to access that newly launched Windows 6.5 Marketplace you now have another option to choose from. Of course you’re going to have to wait until Q3 when AT&T pushes out that free Windows Mobile 6.1 - 6.5 update.

Tags: At&T, At&T, Cell Phones, HTC, htc tilt 2, marketplace, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Windows Mobile 6.5

What do you know folks, it looks like AT&T has quietly decided to start selling the Pure with a couple of days to go before Windows Mobile 6.5 goes official. In case you forgot the Pure is HTC’s Touch Diamond2, one of the first phones announced to run Microsoft’s latest mobile OS. Notice the date on the phone in the picture here and feel free to run to your closest AT&T store to get it. Of course, you could always reconsider and wait for a different Windows Mobile 6.5 to arrive. I hear there are 30 phones ready to run the OS by the end of the year?

via Engadget

Tags: At&T, At&T, HTC, HTC, microsoft, Pure, Windows Mobile 6.5