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For today only, AT&T is offering the popular Samsung Blackjack with a $99.99 internet discount which makes the phone free with a two year service agreement.

The Blackjack is a 3G phone that operates on Windows Mobile 5.0. It offers personal and corporate email and attachment support and has Mobile Office TM applications. With Cellular Video and AT&T Mobile Music you can watch exclusive TV content and listen to your digital songs. The Blackjack

AT&T yesterday announced that it boosted its 3G network speed. The network's typical downlink speed was increased by over 20 percent while the uplink speed was increased by 50 percent. The increase in speed was made possible by recent network upgrades including the deployment of High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) across all 3G markets by the end of June.

AT&T's 3G network is currently available in over 275 major cities in the U.S. Downlink speeds have increased to between 700 Kbps and 1.7 Mbps from 600 Kbps to 1.4 Mbps. Upload speeds increased

AT&T today announced that LaptopConnect subscribers can now connect, free of charge, to more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots nationwide. Around 7,000 of these AT&T hot spots are at Starbuck's locations while thousands more are in hotels, airports, restaurants and other locations.

LaptopConnect keeps AT&T customers connected to the Internet wherever they can make a mobile phone call with a $59.99/month DataConnect subscription. With this new Wi-Fi availability qualifying customers will receive a pop-up alerting them that they are in range of one of AT&T's hot spots. Simply

In response to last week's Sprint/Clearwire agreement claiming they will unveil the nation's first 4G network two years ahead of any other mobile provider, AT&T has announced that it will dramatically increase its network speeds starting next year. While the new Clearwire company expects to deliver network speeds up to 6 Mbps to 140 million people by 2010, AT&T plans to deliver speeds of 20 Mbps by next year and a whopping 100 Mbps by 2010. AT&T currently offers DSL-like speeds where it has HSDPA deployed.

The announcement came yesterday at a presentation to Wall Street analysts. While AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have all chosen to use the not yet standardized LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology, AT&T

Well past its original launch date of February 5th, AT&T is now set to launch its Mobile TV on Sunday, May 4th. In conjunction with MediaFLO USA, AT&T will offer round the clock access to popular shows on major networks.

The Mobile TV service will offer shows from networks such as CBS Mobile, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile, NBC 2Go, NBC News 2Go, MTV Networks' COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV and Nickelodeon. In addition, AT&T will offer two exclusive channels, PIX and CNN Mobile Live, on MediaFLO USA's FLO TV™ service. Over 150 simulcast or time-shifted shows will be available for viewing, as well as live

As speculation has Apple's upgraded 3G iPhone debuting either at the developer's conference on June 9th or on the one year anniversary of the iPhone on June 29th, a report from Fortune has AT&T possibly subsidizing the iPhone by as much as $200. AT&T believes that such a price could draw customers away from competitors such as Verizon, T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel.

The 2G iPhone currently goes for $400 so a $200 3G iPhone is a very attractive offer. According to Fortune the subsidized phone will only be sold at AT&T stores, not at Apple retailers. While the average wireless customer's monthly bill is around $50, the average iPhone user racks up a $100 bill. AT&T

Comcast has just made a move that is causing quite a bit of speculation about their future plans for wireless service. Although there has been no official announcement yet, the cable giant has hired the former CTO of Telefonica O2 Europe, Dave Williams to "explore wireless options." He apparently took the role of Senior Vice President of wireless and technology strategy.

Williams has been in wireless for several years and has held positions at several major companies. Before Telefonica he was VP of strategic planning at Cingular Wireless, a position he rose to in the aftermath of the SBC Wireless-BellSouth Cellular merger. He also helped create the Pacific Bell Mobile network.

His experience in wireless has led to speculation that Comcast is positioning its pieces to move into the wireless market with Verizon and AT&T. Both Verizon and AT&T offer the quad pack of