“AT&T” on The Daily Caller

Apple’s iPhone is the most profitable product offered by the most valuable company in the world. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — AT&T Inc. will pay TiVo Inc. at least $215 million through June 2018, becoming the latest TV signal provider to settle a patent lawsuit involving the digital video recorder pioneer. (more)

When ambiguous laws cause one of America’s largest companies to lose billions of dollars because it tried to address our wireless problems, grow its business — and thus grow the economy — it is a bad day for the country. This is precisely what happened when the U.S. government blocked AT&T’s $39 billion bid to purchase T-Mobile. (more)

The FCC yesterday approved AT&T’s acquisition of spectrum from Qualcomm. The positive outcome is bittersweet for the wireless carrier, coming only a few days after the company was forced to throw in the towel on its acquisition of spectrum from T-Mobile USA. (more)

AT&T Inc. (T) may seek to acquire Dish Network Corp., the second-largest U.S. satellite-TV company, to gain wireless spectrum after failing to purchase T-Mobile USA and its airwaves, Stifel Nicolaus & Co. said. (more)

AT&T announced late Monday afternoon plans to drop its $39 billion bid to purchase T-Mobile, citing federal government intervention by the Federal Communications Commission and the Obama Justice Department as reasons for ending the deal. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — AT&T Inc. is hanging up on its $39 billion bid to buy smaller wireless provider T-Mobile USA, nearly four months after the U.S. government raised concerns that it would raise prices, reduce innovation and give customers fewer choices. (more)

Updated: Though most U.S. operators use Carrier IQ’s handset monitoring software in some form, they’re not all using it to the same degree, according to the answers AT&T, Sprint, HTC and Samsung submitted to U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) in response to his detailed questionnaire about their relationship to with the controversial company. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T Inc. and two of its rivals have agreed to postpone their lawsuits over AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA now that the $39 billion deal is in jeopardy. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T Inc. and the Justice Department agreed Monday to put off their upcoming antitrust trial over the phone company’s proposed acquisition of smaller rival T-Mobile USA while the wireless carriers determine the fate of the deal. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Friday it wants to withdraw or postpone its antitrust case against the proposed merger between AT&T Inc. and smaller rival T-Mobile USA now that the two companies pulled their application with the Federal Communications Commission to approve the deal. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Friday it wants to withdraw or postpone its antitrust case against the proposed merger between AT&T Inc. and smaller rival T-Mobile USA now that the two companies no longer have a valid application to approve the deal. (more)

It’s complicated between AT&T and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. (more)

At the Senate Commerce Committee’s confirmation hearings for Federal Communications Commission nominees Wednesday, Republican nominee Ajit Pai — previously employed by at Jenner & Block, the law firm representing clients in the AT&T/T-Mobile deal — told Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison that he “would not feel any prejudice” towards a client of his former firm. (more)

The U.S. is invoking Cold War-era national-security powers to force telecommunication companies including AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to divulge confidential information about their networks in a hunt for Chinese cyber-spying. (more)

Two left-leaning FCC commissioners slammed AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile on Tuesday and suggested the deal should be scrapped. (more)

The Federal Communications Commission announced Tuesday that it had approved requests from AT&T and T-Mobile to withdraw their merger applications, filed in April. (more)

(Reuters) – Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) may be forced to sell assets closer to home and take a knife to its cost base if its $39 billion deal to sell T-Mobile USA to AT&T (T.N) collapses. (more)

AT&T and T-Mobile USA’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, withdrew applications for Federal Communications Commission  approval of their controversial and highly contested $39 billion merger Wednesday. The telecommunications giants made the decision to temporarily withdraw from the approval process one day after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he would seek an additional hearing that threatened to sink the proposed merger. (more)

U.S. regulators made clear how deep their opposition runs to AT&T Inc.’s proposed $39 billion deal to acquire T-Mobile USA, saying AT&T must face an extra review next year that could eat up months even if the company wins an antitrust trial
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The unusual decision by the Federal Communications Commission to call the extra hearing—its first such move in nine years—adds a new roadblock and forces AT&T to consider an unpalatable range of options. (more)