There seems to be tough time ahead of AT&T, as a federal judge has accepted the request to freeze the deal of acquiring T-Mobile USA Inc. This comes as nothing less than a shocker for the company as they were expecting to get some breather this time.

In the wake of AT&T’s earlier claims that the carrier’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA would result in the creation of between 55,000 and 96,000 jobs, the officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have asked AT&T to submit further details to substantiate the jobs claims.

In a Thursday letter to AT&T, Rick Kaplan - the wireless bureau head at FCC – sought the carrier’s response to the commission’s May request for more information about its jobs claims in connection with its merger with T-Mobile.

As many as five new Android-based smartphones are scheduled to be launched on the AT&T network this week --- including the high-end Atrix 2 from Motorola Mobility; Captivate Glide and Doubletime from Samsung; Pantech Pocket from Pantech Curitel; and the budget AT&T Avail from ZTE Corp.

In what happens to be the first test to be faced by Apple soon after the death of its dynamic co-founder Steve Jobs, the company Friday began accepting pre-orders for its latest iPhone iteration - the iPhone 4S.

Most of AT&T customers in Southern California are now able to make calls after technicians fixed the widespread outage that hit the service Saturday afternoon.

The number of opponents of carrier AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA is on the increase.

Seven states, viz. Washington, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and California, have declared their opposition to the AT&T/T-Mobile deal by joining the U. S. Department of Justice's suit to block the proposed merger.