AT&T hopes to win over fans of “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” and other HBO shows with a promotion that offers access to HBO for free for a year on its new DirecTV Now streaming TV service. But there’s a catch: You’ll have to dish out the big bucks for one of the company’s most expensive …
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Unlimited data is back, and customers who held onto their old grandfathered unlimited plans finally have more choices. It couldn’t be a better time to be in the market for an unlimited data plan for your mobile phone. Thanks to T-Mobile, which has been siphoning off customers from AT&T and Verizon, the big carriers have finally succumbed to the pressure. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Jumping on AT&T’s cheaper unlimited plan? Not so fast… 2:46 AT&T just fired the latest salvo in the unlimited data wars. The Dallas telecommunications giant unveiled two new unlimited data plans. The first is Unlimited Choice, a stripped-down plan that comes with unlimited data at a maximum speed of 3 megabits per second, standard definition, and …
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T-Mobile is piling abuse on AT&T-owned DirecTV Now in the form of free Hulu. In addition giving customers who switched from rival AT&T a free year of DirecTV Now, as the carrier offered up last month, it’s also giving them a free year of Hulu. Citing widespread reports of DirecTV Now’s unreliability and customer complaints, T-Mobile characterizes Hulu as an …
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You get only one chance to make a first impression. If that’s the case, AT&T may have dropped the ball with many customers who signed up for its DirecTV Now streaming TV service. The telecommunications giant saw its service choke under the demands of its users, marking an embarrassing start for the company. It was bad enough that T-Mobile CEO …
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Now playing: Watch this: FCC: AT&T and Verizon’s free data programs violate net… 1:34 The Tom Wheeler-led Federal Communications Commission is taking a final shot at AT&T and Verizon Wireless. On Wednesday, the FCC’s wireless bureau issued a report (PDF) spelling out how AT&T’s DirecTV Now online video service and Verizon’s FreeBee Data 360 offer, which allow companies to pay …
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Attention cable cord cutters: Hulu is about to get live. Sometime later this year the subscription TV service, which currently offers a big catalog of on-demand TV shows from major networks, will roll out live TV, too. The live version of Hulu will cost less than $40 per month for live channels from ABC/Disney, CBS and Fox as well as …
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AT&T said Wednesday it will test a 5G wireless service to deliver its new DirecTV Now streaming TV service to select homes in Austin, Texas, in the first half of this year. The Dallas-based wireless and broadband company said the $35-a-month internet streaming service, which offers an alternative to traditional cable and satellite TV services, will use a fixed 5G …
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T-Mobile and CEO John Legere are up to their old tricks. The phone company gave rival AT&T a tweak on the nose Thursday as T-Mobile tried to lure customers away from its competitor. The deal? Leave AT&T Wireless and jump to T-Mobile’s One plan and you’ll get a year of streaming-video service DirecTV Now for free. The punchline? DirecTV is …
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Can’t get enough of Taylor Swift? Well now you can watch the pop singer to your heart’s content with Taylor Swift Now, a new video offering that’s available free to all AT&T DirecTV Now, DirecTV and U-verse customers. AT&T timed its unveiling of the service for Swift’s 27th birthday. The company had teased the new offering back in October, when …
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