- Verizon Offers Sling TV Deal To Broadband, Wireless Customers
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, May 20, 2021
The deal is the latest in a series of partnerships intended to help bolster Fios TV, which lost 82,000 subscribers in this year's first quarter alone, reducing its total ...
- Nextdoor Data Identifies Changes In Consumers' Habits
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Data from the Nextdoor app has become a valuable tool for marketers looking to track real-time, local changes in consumer behavior. The data reveals consumers' spending habits and media consumpti ...
- Net Neutrality 'Vital' To Protect The Public, California Tells Appeals Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 5, 2021
California is urging a federal appeals court to leave in place a state net neutrality law that broadly prohibits broadband carriers from blocking or throttling traffic and from charging high ...
- Nokia's Partnerships With Amazon, Microsoft, Google Center On 5G, Cloud
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 16, 2021
5G technology aims to facilitate faster load times for apps, advertising, search, video and other software applications running on mobile devices. On Tuesday, Nokia issued several announcements around cloud provide ...
- What Does DirecTV Turn Into Now?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Some analysts believe rural areas could be a possible improving ground for DirecTV. ...
- Ad Watchdog Tells AT&T To Stop Saying 5G Will Be Built On 'Best Network'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
BBB National Programs' National Advertising Review Board found that claim problematic. ...
- T-Mobile 5G Ads Could Mislead Consumers, Watchdog Says -- Again
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 23, 2021
"One of the messages that consumers could reasonably take away from the challenged television and radio commercials is that T-Mobile's merger with Sprint will provide its customers with network performan ...
- AT&T To Pay Additional $12 Million For Throttling 'Unlimited' Subscribers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 2, 2021
AT&T, which previously forged a $60 million settlement with the FTC, has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over allegations that it slowed the broadband connectio ...
- Verizon: Two-Thirds Of Its Free Disney+ Promo Customers Are Now Paid Subs
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 26, 2021
"We think this is unheard of," says Hans Vestberg, chairman-CEO of Verizon. ...
- T-Mobile Should Revise 5G Boasts, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 6, 2020
T-Mobile ads touting the benefits of its upcoming 5G network could mislead people to think the network will be available in the near future, the National Advertising Division says. ...
- AT&T Customers Still Face Location Privacy Risks, Watchdog Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 12, 2020
AT&T customers risk disclosure of their location data, even though the company says it no longer sells location information to outside aggregators, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues. ...
- AT&T Must Face Lawsuit Over DirecTV Robocalls
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 30, 2020
AT&T's DirecTV must face a class-action complaint alleging the company violated a consumer protection law by making robocalls to a consumer's cell phone, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday. ...
- AT&T To Settle Class Action Over Throttling
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 17, 2020
AT&T has reached an "agreement in principle" to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit over allegations that it slowed the broadband connections of subscribers who purchased unlimited data. ...
- AT&T Mulls Ad-Supported Phone Plans, With HBO Max As 'Foundational' Element: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Such phone plans could be launched within a year or two, CEO John Stankey told Reuters, noting that HBO Max would be a "foundational element." ...
- Justice Department Backs Facebook In Fight Over Robotexts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 8, 2020
The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to throw out a lawsuit claiming the social media company violated a federal law by sending unwanted text messages. ...
- Facebook Asks Supreme Court To Throw Out Robotext Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 4, 2020
Facebook is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that revived a lawsuit claiming the company violated a federal law by sending unwanted text messages. ...
- T-Mobile's CEO Warns Tying Democrats To 'Defund' Slogan Could Help Re-Elect Trump
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, September 4, 2020
Mike Sievert's warning appeared on his locked Facebook account that only some friends can see, but was also reported by "Politico." ...
- Just Like The Bigger Guys, Cricket Now Offers 5G Too
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, August 31, 2020
Cricket wireless is telling consumers it now has 5G service in two spots that subtly concede being cutting-edge is not really their smartphone neighborhood. ...
- Verizon 5G 360-Degree Camera To Perform At Indianapolis 500
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 21, 2020
5G changes the way broadcasters and content producers create events, enabling them to produce them from anywhere with more unique camera angles and control the view from a smartphone wi ...
- Verizon Ads Mislead About 5G Availability, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Verizon should "discontinue claims communicating that its 5G service is widely available in cities across the country," the National Advertising Division recommends in an opinion released Tuesday. ...
- Time's Up For Internet, Wireless Providers' 'Keep Connected' Pledge During Crisis
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Pledge meant those companies would not discontinue service or charge late fees for cell phone customers unable to pay because of new economic hardships. ...
- T-Mobile Recovering From Monday Outage
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Complaints spiked on Monday afternoon, and the company said it was working on the issue. ...
- Ad Industry Watchdog Refers Spectrum Mobile To Regulators
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 12, 2020
An ad industry watchdog says it will refer Spectrum Mobile to government regulators, because the company did not participate in a proceeding over allegedly misleading 5G ads. ...
- Telecom Is Hopping: Merkle Study Shows Surge In B2B Intent
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, June 5, 2020
Sprint is first in search, and China Mobile is the leader in online content, Merkle reports. ...
- AT&T Violates Net Neutrality Principles With HBO Max, Lawmakers Say
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 4, 2020
"The Trump FCC may have gutted critical net neutrality protections, but AT&T nonetheless has a responsibility to avoid any policies or practices that harm consumers and stifle competition," Sens. ...
- AT&T Chooses Salesforce For Customer Experience Support
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 29, 2020
Salesforce will help AT&T gain a single view of its customers across all touchpoints, the firm says. ...
- AT&T's 5G Evolution Ads Misleading, Self-Regulatory Group Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 20, 2020
AT&T ads boasting about the company's "5G Evolution" service mislead consumers and should be discontinued, an appeals panel of the ad industry's self-regulatory program confirmed. ...
- Consumers Fear Tech Outages During COVID-19 Outbreak: Pew Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Most have used email to communicate during the crisis, but only a few have tried to reach doctors. ...
- Phoning It In: COVID-19 Drives Consumers Back To Speaking On Phones
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Using a smartphone to talk is back, at least for now. For the longest time, consumers have been migrating to texting and web surfing on their smartphones. ...
- Amazon, T-Mobile Defeat Claims Based On Age-Targeted Ads -- For Now
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed a complaint alleging that T-Mobile and Amazon violated civil rights laws by allegedly using Facebook's targeting tools to block employment ads from reaching people ov ...
