DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Standards & Regulations, AT&T
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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FCC approves AT&T's copper retirement plans in California
But still needs to overcome barriers, with the state adamant AT&T must continue providing copper services
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FCC approves EchoStar's $40bn spectrum sales to AT&T, SpaceX
The regulator says the sales will boost competition while enhancing D2D rollout
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AT&T agrees $2bn deal to upgrade FirstNet
Will invest $1bn, while also helping to reduce costs by the same amount for the first responders network
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AT&T ditches DEI policies as FCC prepares to review spectrum deal
The telco has joined Verizon and T-Mobile in axing DEI-related policies
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FCC regains ability to auction off spectrum after more than two years
Legislation in Trump's new One Big Beautiful Bill paves the way for mobile carriers to deploy more spectrum
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FCC rules in favor of AT&T's FirstNet over usage of 4.9 GHz spectrum
CERCI threatens to challenge the decision
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AT&T agrees to remove lead cabling from Lake Tahoe
The carrier will have to remove approximately 107,000 pounds of lead from the lake
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AT&T and Verizon outline opposition to T-Mobile and SpaceX's satellite service amid fears of interference
SpaceX maintains the plans will have no negative impact on its competitors
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FCC approves AST SpaceMobile's usage of BlueBird direct-to-smartphone satellites
On course to be launched in September
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FCC details damage of AT&T's February network outage: 92 million calls were blocked
While 25,000 tried and failed to get through to emergency services
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AT&T can't hang up on California's landline customers, rules CPUC
Carrier is told that it must continue its obligation as COLR in the state
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Verizon urges FCC to not gift 4.9GHz spectrum to AT&T via FirstNet
Suggests an auction be held instead
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IBM avoids $1.6bn payment to BMC over AT&T mainframe court case
Plus Open Text sells app modernization business for $2.25bn
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T-Mobile wins bid to appeal consumer lawsuit over $26bn Sprint deal
The carrier has previously called the class action suit "speculative"
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Environmental Protection Agency requests meetings with telcos over lead cabling
Has made the investigation a "high priority"
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AT&T hits back at lead leak report, does not intend to remove old cables in near term
The US operator disputes WSJ's investigation
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US Senator Markey wants answers from USTelecom over toxic lead cabling report
Wants to know what the telcos will do in response
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T-Mobile hits back at AT&T and co. over satellite-to-cell filing concerns
T-Mobile says there's no reason why the provision of SCS service can't be authorized
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AT&T wants to block T-Mobile's plans to use satellite services amid fears of interference
Are we headed for another spectrum spat?
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AT&T agrees to pay SEC $6.25m to end lawsuit
The three execs at the center of the lawsuit agree to pay individual fines of $25,000
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AT&T CEO: "We’re looking at this as a time of war"
Plus Microsoft considers how do deal with capacity constraints
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US quantum initiatives move forward with DOE, NSF funding and House bill
And Google, IBM and Intel are among those visiting the White House as the government reveals its quantum computing strategy