Posts tagged AT&T

A Push for Privacy in the Wake of the Carrier IQ Controversy
Josh Levy
January 31, 2012

Remember Carrier IQ, the company that makes the secret spying software that’s installed on more than 140 million phones? You know, the software that can record our most sensitive personal data?

Cellphone companies including AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile use Carrier IQ to track what smartphone users are doing on their phones, but it’s unclear what data is being tracked and what is being done with that information. While both these companies and Carrier IQ claim they want our most sensitive information only to diagnose hardware and software problems, the public — and some members of Congress — still have questions about what, exactly, this powerful software can do.

Big Win! AT&T Drops Its T-Mobile Takeover Bid
Craig Aaron
December 19, 2011

This is huge: AT&T just announced it’s finally abandoning its doomed merger with T-Mobile.

For nearly a year, we've been showing that this deal would have only meant higher prices, fewer choices and tens of thousands of lost American jobs. Free Press knew it; the Department of Justice agreed; so did the FCC.

The Top 10 Ways the Carriers Tried to Screw Us in 2011
Josh Levy
December 15, 2011

Another year, another 12 months in which the mobile carriers did their best to screw us.

AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon do so many bad, annoying and anti-consumer things that it’s almost impossible to document it all. So below is a catalog of simply the most egregious acts the carriers perpetrated this year.

AT&T, Verizon and Other Telecom Tax Dodgers
Josh Levy
November 18, 2011

Big corporations have become a focal point for the nation’s anger and mistrust (see: Occupy Wall Street). It’s no wonder. As millions of Americans struggle to keep their homes and their jobs, big companies are continuing to post — and trumpet — record profits. That fact alone has many of us outraged.

A new report, “Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers,” is sure to outrage us even more. Produced by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the study examines the income taxes paid (or not paid) by 280 companies in the Fortune 500.

Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know
Josh Levy
November 3, 2011

Next week the Senate is expected to vote on a measure that could kill the Internet as we know it.

The political process surrounding this “resolution of disapproval” — which will have a negative impact on small business owners, entrepreneurs, students, activists and everyone else who depends on the open Internet — is opaque and complicated.

Shareholders of the World Unite!
Josh Levy
October 27, 2011

A memo from a group of AT&T shareholders — including the Beastie Boys’ Mike D — shows signs of a revolt from within. It calls for the company “to publicly commit to operate its wireless broadband network consistent with network neutrality principles.”

That’s a big deal. In just a few weeks, the Senate will vote on a “resolution of disapproval” that would strip the FCC of its ability to enforce Net Neutrality rules.

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