AT&T is attempting to harden its network in Louisiana by burying fiber-optic infrastructure that initially was installed on telephone poles. The buried cable is nowhere near as susceptible to damage from hurricanes and other storms as above ground wiring. AT&T…
AT&T today unveiled a managed extended detection and response (XDR) offering featuring a cloud-based security platform with security threat analytics, machine learning and third-party connectors. The solution is designed to protect endpoint, network, and cloud assets with automated and orchestrated…
The new AT&T Dynamic Exchange (ADX) service is an on-demand offering that aims to provide “streamlined, highly secure integration” between customers, suppliers and business partners, according to AT&T Business. ADX uses AT&T Switched Ethernet on Demand or AT&T Virtual Private…
AT&T said today that it has made a deal with Frontier that calls for Frontier to bring fiber to large enterprise customers outside AT&T’s current footprint and to support AT&T’s 5G mobility network. Spokespeople for AT&T and Frontier confirmed that…
The U.S. Air Force has selected FirstNet to provide priority communications and preemption for first responders on 15 bases nationwide. The actual bases were not disclosed. The agreement, which was struck between FirstNet and the Air Force Civil Engineer Center…
Vanderburgh County in Indiana is part of an AT&T public-private broadband project to bring AT&T fiber to 20K locations in the county. The project is expected to take two years to complete. About one-third of Vanderburgh County residents lack access…
The AT&T Phone for Business-Advanced combines the reliability of plain old telephone service (POTS) with digital lines’ voice quality, security and lower maintenance costs, according to the carrier. The new service, which is now available to almost every business in…
What’s the news? AT&T is implementing a COVID-19 vaccination policy that extends our vaccine requirement to CWA-represented employees, helping to make our workplace safer for more of our employees and customers. This follows the policy we announced in August, requiring…
What’s the news? Millions of AT&T Cloud Voice and Microsoft Teams users can combine both services to experience business-grade voice calls from virtually anywhere. The new integration with the Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams platform gives businesses the ability to…
There might be a business case for AT&T to deploy fiber to more than the 30 million locations that the company has forecast to have fiber broadband available to them by 2025 — especially if the Senate infrastructure bill becomes…
AT&T aims to increase access to educational and digital literacy tools by opening the first of more than 20 AT&T Connected Learning Centers across the U.S. These AT&T Learning Centers will be in facilities operated by local community organizations and…
AT&T and OneWeb, a satellite operator deploying a low earth (LEO) orbit constellation, have agreed to bring business connectivity to remote areas beyond the reach of the carrier’s network. The arrangement, which was labeled a “strategic agreement,” will be aimed…
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