AT&T bought Centennial Communications Corp for $944 million today in order improve AT&T’s coverage in the Midwest, Southeast, and Puerto Rico.
The purchase will add 1.1 million customers to AT&T’s 74.9 million base. The move follows Verizon’s purchase of Alltel last week.
Mobile providers are facing a plateau in subscribers due partially to the economic downturn. By [...]

How did Research In Motion’s (RIMM) big, bulky BlackBerry Bold do yesterday in its first day of sales at AT&T (T) stores? Pretty well, it seems, despite a minor distraction. (Election Day.)
Citi analyst Jim Suva says his checks at AT&T stores show “strong initial demand” for the Bold with many stores sold out before noon.

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The BlackBerry Bold has been a long time in the making but AT&T finally has the so-called “unequivocally the best piece of hardware that RIM has ever put out” up for sale at ATT dot Com. It’s yours with a two-year contract price of $299 and free shipping.

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AT&T just sweetened the pot for all of its iPhone subscribers. If you own an AT&T iPhone, you now get free WiFi access at AT&Ts 17,000 hotspots across the country, including at most Starbucks. Although just last summer AT&T teased customers with the same freebie service, only to put up a pay wall [...]

AT&T is reporting a boom in customer acquisition and, it seems, a bust in profits. According to a recent earnings report, the company activated 2.4 million iPhones but lost $900 million in third-quarter earnings as a result of all the data and voice blowing through Apple’s darling.

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