AT&T
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AT&T has signed a purchase agreement worth more than $1 billion with Corning to secure solutions to expand its network. -
AT&T ratified two agreements with employees represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union to offer them wage increases following strikes earlier this year.
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Chris Sambar, formerly the president and head of networks at AT&T has joined self-storage company Public Storage.
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Chris Sambar, president and head of networks at AT&T will leave after more than two decades at the company.
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AT&T has agreed to pay US$13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023.
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Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with AT&T to deploy next-generation fibre access technology.
Forthcoming events
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Hurricane Dorian has knocked out internet and telecoms connections across the Bahamas and now US operators are preparing for the disastrous storm to hit Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
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American Tower has extended its agreement with AT&T to provide towers across the US for its 5G roll-out and for its FirstNet emergency service.
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Former CTO Jeff McElfresh will take over as CEO of AT&T Communications on the retirement of John Donovan, and another former CTO, John Stankey, is now the heir apparent to Randall Stephenson at the top of the group.
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John Donovan, head of the telecoms division of AT&T, is to retire on 1 October.
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MEF has published the industry’s first global standard for SD-WAN that defines SD-WAN service and its service attributes.
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Dell Technologies and AT&T are developing open infrastructure technology areas for the next-gen network edge that will be required for 5G.
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Altice Europe is moving ahead with the planned sale of a stake in its fibre network in Portugal, according to 60% owner Patrick Drahi (pictured).
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AT&T has introduced a managed threat detection and response service, which will be marketed at enterprises across the world.
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AT&T has formed two separate cloud alliances – with Microsoft, covering cloud, AI and 5G, and with IBM, to modernise AT&T Business Solutions’ internal software applications.
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AT&T and Colt Technology Services have completed the first successful application of MEF’s LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) Sonata APIs, allowing business customers to order services across multiple carriers virtually seamlessly.
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The US government wants Sprint and T-Mobile US to carve out a new mobile company as part of the conditions for approval of their $26 billion merger.
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Huawei will be unable to buy technology from any US company without a licence from the US government, following a pair of remarkable orders from Washington DC.
