#atandt — Public Fediverse posts

A small town perspective on what it might mean to unsubscribe from #Apple (or wait to buy new gear until #TimCook retires), #Amazon, #ATandT, and #OpenAI.

By the way, despite my deep engagement with #ChatGPT, I'm unsubscribing from OpenAI's services today.

https://markmcelroy.com/mississippi-maga-and-making-nice/

The corporate enablers of the #ICECrackdown

How #Amazon, AT&T, and #CitizensBank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Judd Legum
Jan 26, 2026

Excerpts: "#AmazonWebServices (#AWS) hosts the database, known as Investigative Case Management (#ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport #immigrants. ICM, which was created by #Palantir, 'integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants and, in many cases, deport them.' The data includes 'a person’s immigration history, family relationships, personal connections, addresses, phone records, biometric traits, and other information.' Through Palantir, AWS receives millions of dollars annually from the federal government to host ICM. Last April, the Trump administration awarded Palantir a new $30 million contract to create '#ImmigrationOS,' which is 'a new tool to provide [ICE] with enhanced capabilities to support deportation efforts.' ImmigrationOS is likely hosted on AWS, which has a strategic partnership with Palantir."

[...]

"Numerous financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, and Fifth Third Bancorp, pledged in 2019 to stop working with the #PrivatePrisonIndustry. (#BankOfAmerica and SunTrust have since 'softened their policy statements to allow financing again for detention companies in some circumstances.') But #CitizensFinancialGroup, which operates #CitizensBank, has continued to provide financing for private prison construction. In July 2025, Citizens provided a $450 million revolving credit line to #GEOGroup. Earlier, in March 2025, Citizens underwrote $500 million in bonds for #CoreCivic."

[...]

"In September 2024, AT&T inked a 10-year, $147 million contract with ICE’s parent agency, #DHS, to 'provide mission-critical communications services.' The agreement provides ICE and other DHS subdivisions with 'end-to-end voice priority over the AT&T commercial wireless network.' In August, the Trump administration awarded AT&T an $11 million no-bid contract to provide ICE with 'data analytics and support services.' "

Full article:
https://popular.info/p/the-corporate-enablers-of-the-ice

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FBV5L

#ATandT #AT&T #USPol #ICESucks #AbolishICE #BorderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

The corporate enablers of the #ICECrackdown

How #Amazon, AT&T, and #CitizensBank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Judd Legum
Jan 26, 2026

Excerpts: "#AmazonWebServices (#AWS) hosts the database, known as Investigative Case Management (#ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport #immigrants. ICM, which was created by #Palantir, 'integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants and, in many cases, deport them.' The data includes 'a person’s immigration history, family relationships, personal connections, addresses, phone records, biometric traits, and other information.' Through Palantir, AWS receives millions of dollars annually from the federal government to host ICM. Last April, the Trump administration awarded Palantir a new $30 million contract to create '#ImmigrationOS,' which is 'a new tool to provide [ICE] with enhanced capabilities to support deportation efforts.' ImmigrationOS is likely hosted on AWS, which has a strategic partnership with Palantir."

[...]

"Numerous financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, and Fifth Third Bancorp, pledged in 2019 to stop working with the #PrivatePrisonIndustry. (#BankOfAmerica and SunTrust have since 'softened their policy statements to allow financing again for detention companies in some circumstances.') But #CitizensFinancialGroup, which operates #CitizensBank, has continued to provide financing for private prison construction. In July 2025, Citizens provided a $450 million revolving credit line to #GEOGroup. Earlier, in March 2025, Citizens underwrote $500 million in bonds for #CoreCivic."

[...]

"In September 2024, AT&T inked a 10-year, $147 million contract with ICE’s parent agency, #DHS, to 'provide mission-critical communications services.' The agreement provides ICE and other DHS subdivisions with 'end-to-end voice priority over the AT&T commercial wireless network.' In August, the Trump administration awarded AT&T an $11 million no-bid contract to provide ICE with 'data analytics and support services.' "

Full article:
https://popular.info/p/the-corporate-enablers-of-the-ice

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FBV5L

#ATandT #AT&T #USPol #ICESucks #AbolishICE #BorderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

The corporate enablers of the #ICECrackdown

How #Amazon, AT&T, and #CitizensBank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Judd Legum
Jan 26, 2026

Excerpts: "#AmazonWebServices (#AWS) hosts the database, known as Investigative Case Management (#ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport #immigrants. ICM, which was created by #Palantir, 'integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants and, in many cases, deport them.' The data includes 'a person’s immigration history, family relationships, personal connections, addresses, phone records, biometric traits, and other information.' Through Palantir, AWS receives millions of dollars annually from the federal government to host ICM. Last April, the Trump administration awarded Palantir a new $30 million contract to create '#ImmigrationOS,' which is 'a new tool to provide [ICE] with enhanced capabilities to support deportation efforts.' ImmigrationOS is likely hosted on AWS, which has a strategic partnership with Palantir."

[...]

"Numerous financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, and Fifth Third Bancorp, pledged in 2019 to stop working with the #PrivatePrisonIndustry. (#BankOfAmerica and SunTrust have since 'softened their policy statements to allow financing again for detention companies in some circumstances.') But #CitizensFinancialGroup, which operates #CitizensBank, has continued to provide financing for private prison construction. In July 2025, Citizens provided a $450 million revolving credit line to #GEOGroup. Earlier, in March 2025, Citizens underwrote $500 million in bonds for #CoreCivic."

[...]

"In September 2024, AT&T inked a 10-year, $147 million contract with ICE’s parent agency, #DHS, to 'provide mission-critical communications services.' The agreement provides ICE and other DHS subdivisions with 'end-to-end voice priority over the AT&T commercial wireless network.' In August, the Trump administration awarded AT&T an $11 million no-bid contract to provide ICE with 'data analytics and support services.' "

Full article:
https://popular.info/p/the-corporate-enablers-of-the-ice

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FBV5L

#ATandT #AT&T #USPol #ICESucks #AbolishICE #BorderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

The corporate enablers of the #ICECrackdown

How #Amazon, AT&T, and #CitizensBank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Judd Legum
Jan 26, 2026

Excerpts: "#AmazonWebServices (#AWS) hosts the database, known as Investigative Case Management (#ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport #immigrants. ICM, which was created by #Palantir, 'integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants and, in many cases, deport them.' The data includes 'a person’s immigration history, family relationships, personal connections, addresses, phone records, biometric traits, and other information.' Through Palantir, AWS receives millions of dollars annually from the federal government to host ICM. Last April, the Trump administration awarded Palantir a new $30 million contract to create '#ImmigrationOS,' which is 'a new tool to provide [ICE] with enhanced capabilities to support deportation efforts.' ImmigrationOS is likely hosted on AWS, which has a strategic partnership with Palantir."

[...]

"Numerous financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, and Fifth Third Bancorp, pledged in 2019 to stop working with the #PrivatePrisonIndustry. (#BankOfAmerica and SunTrust have since 'softened their policy statements to allow financing again for detention companies in some circumstances.') But #CitizensFinancialGroup, which operates #CitizensBank, has continued to provide financing for private prison construction. In July 2025, Citizens provided a $450 million revolving credit line to #GEOGroup. Earlier, in March 2025, Citizens underwrote $500 million in bonds for #CoreCivic."

[...]

"In September 2024, AT&T inked a 10-year, $147 million contract with ICE’s parent agency, #DHS, to 'provide mission-critical communications services.' The agreement provides ICE and other DHS subdivisions with 'end-to-end voice priority over the AT&T commercial wireless network.' In August, the Trump administration awarded AT&T an $11 million no-bid contract to provide ICE with 'data analytics and support services.' "

Full article:
https://popular.info/p/the-corporate-enablers-of-the-ice

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FBV5L

#ATandT #AT&T #USPol #ICESucks #AbolishICE #BorderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

The corporate enablers of the #ICECrackdown

How #Amazon, AT&T, and #CitizensBank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Judd Legum
Jan 26, 2026

Excerpts: "#AmazonWebServices (#AWS) hosts the database, known as Investigative Case Management (#ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport #immigrants. ICM, which was created by #Palantir, 'integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants and, in many cases, deport them.' The data includes 'a person’s immigration history, family relationships, personal connections, addresses, phone records, biometric traits, and other information.' Through Palantir, AWS receives millions of dollars annually from the federal government to host ICM. Last April, the Trump administration awarded Palantir a new $30 million contract to create '#ImmigrationOS,' which is 'a new tool to provide [ICE] with enhanced capabilities to support deportation efforts.' ImmigrationOS is likely hosted on AWS, which has a strategic partnership with Palantir."

[...]

"Numerous financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, and Fifth Third Bancorp, pledged in 2019 to stop working with the #PrivatePrisonIndustry. (#BankOfAmerica and SunTrust have since 'softened their policy statements to allow financing again for detention companies in some circumstances.') But #CitizensFinancialGroup, which operates #CitizensBank, has continued to provide financing for private prison construction. In July 2025, Citizens provided a $450 million revolving credit line to #GEOGroup. Earlier, in March 2025, Citizens underwrote $500 million in bonds for #CoreCivic."

[...]

"In September 2024, AT&T inked a 10-year, $147 million contract with ICE’s parent agency, #DHS, to 'provide mission-critical communications services.' The agreement provides ICE and other DHS subdivisions with 'end-to-end voice priority over the AT&T commercial wireless network.' In August, the Trump administration awarded AT&T an $11 million no-bid contract to provide ICE with 'data analytics and support services.' "

Full article:
https://popular.info/p/the-corporate-enablers-of-the-ice

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FBV5L

#ATandT #AT&T #USPol #ICESucks #AbolishICE #BorderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

Going back & forth with smartphone carrier considerations - #tmobile seems to have much wider acceptance of different #smartphones so odds are whichever phone I end up getting for longer term use, my main considerations being degooglable, durability of the device, price & physical keyboard (if the device is cheap enough that getting a physical keyboard which would work with it & it combined are cheaper than an all in one device that would work but if it's close I'd rather get just one device) ....but supposedly that network coverage stinks & they are a little more expensive than #ATandT

Part of why though I keep wondering if the network really matters to me, at least for how I am now, is that most known deadzones are places I'd be driving through & not really to, so I wouldn't be trying to reach anyone in those places anyways & if I'm well enough to get out & use a phone I can also move to where I'd get better reception.

5 #carriers you should sign up for instead of #ATandT

https://www.androidauthority.com/att-alternatives-3575806/

“His White House has…created a scorecard that rates American corporations on how loyal they are to Trump. Corporations with “strong” ratings (among them, Uber, DoorDash, United, Delta, AT&T, and Cisco) are to be rewarded with tax and regulatory benefits, while “low” rated corporations could face retribution…”
—Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whatss-fascist-capitalism-and-which
#trump #uber #doordash #united #delta #atandt #cisco

Comcast Xfinity notified me that they changed my unlimited Internet plan to $25 per 50 GB unless I upgrade my plan. I was already paying $138 per month for 1 Gb download and ~100 Mb upload.

I just switched to EarthLink, which is a wrapper around local AT&T fiber optics. I'm now paying $80 per month for a symmetric 1 Gb optical connection with an option to upgrade to symmetric 5 Gb for $200 per month.

I'm grateful I have options here in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

#internet #isp #monopoly #utilities #comcast #xfinity #earthlink #atandt #santacruz #santacruzca #santacruzcausa

There's this idea about why the #internet needs to be widespread and accessible to all, when it is actually artificially limited based upon the interests of media conglomerates and network providers.

An apt example of this is the giant #Google being smacked down for over a decade by the central actor in control over lines known as #ATandT, who artificially controlled the expansion of broadband in order to maintain bottlenecks as a status quo.

The conflict of interest stinks to high heaven.

I’m old enough to remember ‘party lines’. My very first phone number as a kid (and now I’m really dating myself) was Kimberly 72297, shortened to KI-72297. #Telecommunications #telephones #ATandT #Landlines #Telecom #TelecomIndustry

From: @knittingknots2
https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113772012964687691

#WTAF Of course telecom companies are suing the FTC to block the new 'click-to-cancel' rule - #Telecom #Capitalism #Consumerism #legal #ATandT https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/of-course-telecom-companies-are-suing-the-ftc-to-block-the-new-click-to-cancel-rule-153728158.html

@howardu Interestingly my #ATandT #alumni friend said that #Tmobile coverage was working for her while I had no joy from #verizon 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 5/

A former #ATandT colleague and alumni from the College of #Engineering reminded me that @howardu could have reduced #blocking by bringing in COWs--#CellsOnWheels--to provide temporary coverage during events like #homecoming. I've seen COWs at #protests, #festivals, and other events in downtown #DC. Folks may #seesomething but they can't #saysomething if their calls are blocked #howarduniversity! calling you in! 🤔 #BlackLivesMatter Y'all #BlackMastodon 3/

Chinese government #hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers
and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized #wiretaps of communications networks,
The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

"People familiar with the matter" told the WSJ that hackers breached the networks of companies including #Verizon, #ATandT, and Lumen (also known as #CenturyLink).

"A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of US broadband providers,
potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests," the WSJ wrote.

"For months or longer, the hackers might have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful US requests for communications data, according to people familiar with the matter."

These "attackers also had access to other tranches of more generic Internet traffic," according to the WSJ's sources.

The attack is being attributed to a Chinese hacking group called #SaltTyphoon.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/reports-china-hacked-verizon-and-att-may-have-accessed-us-wiretap-systems/

#ATandT sells stake in #DirecTV after #Disney, #ESPN blackout;
#ATT has already sold 30% of the DirecTV business to the #TPG firm, and will sell the rest of the company for $7.6 billion.

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/att-sells-remaining-stake-in-directv-to-private-equity-firm/507-c751994e-d26b-42d8-82de-ebe18b126160

Honest question: if you work from home and your home internet goes out for extended periods, can you lobby your ISP to cover lost wages? #ATandT

AT&T says hackers stole call records of ‘nearly all’ wireless customers
The information could provide a roadmap for criminals who could impersonate a friend or relative to trick a victim, experts warned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/12/att-wireless-hacker-data-breach/ #cybersecurity #databreach #atandt

> AT&T said the stolen data “does not contain the content of calls or texts,” but does include calling and texting records that an AT&T phone number interacted with during the six-month period between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022.

#att #atandt

So I am currently paying 25 bucks a month for Tello. Was hoping to find a similar plan for one line that would also let me upgrade my IPhone from 13 Pro Max to at the least an IPhone 15. Anyone manage to do this and if so, where did you go to do that? #phones #atandt #verizon #blind

#Data from 73 Million #ATandT Accounts Stolen: What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/data-from-73-million-at-t-accounts-stolen-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/#ftag=CADf328eec

Since January 6, 2001, "50 prominent corporations have donated $23,273,400 to the campaigns and political committees of…election deniers…Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including #ATandT, #Comcast, #Walmart, and #Microsoft."
https://popular.info/p/these-50-companies-have-donated-over

#Jan6 #PopularInformation #USPolitics

#OzzyOsbourne for #ATandT Samsung Propel Cell Phone
#ActorsInCommercials #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬

Anybody seeing b0rked traffic routing from #ATandT to #aws EU? Trying to debug some weird shit.

#Ford #FordMotorCompany #HongKongandShanghaiBankingCorporation #AnheuserBusch #AnheuserBuschInbev #McDonalds #Visa #MasterCard #Nike #Turner #CNN #TNT #TBS #JPMorganChase #CitiBank #Starbucks #Loreal #Disney #DisneyCorporation #Dell #Nestlè #Samsung #Unilever #EBAY #Verizon #Google #Microsoft #Walmart #Groupon #AdParlor #Experian #AmericanExpress #ATandT #RalphdelaVega #ProcterandGamble #ElectronicArts #Fabdotcom #ZyngaGames

#PLEASE TAKE NOTE that #Facebook is allowing #abuse on its #platform

#Ford #FordMotorCompany #HongKongandShanghaiBankingCorporation #AnheuserBusch #AnheuserBuschInbev #McDonalds #Visa #MasterCard #Nike #Turner #CNN #TNT #TBS #JPMorganChase #CitiBank #Starbucks #Loreal #Disney #DisneyCorporation #Dell #Nestlè #Samsung #Unilever #EBAY #Verizon #Google #Microsoft #Walmart #Groupon #AdParlor #Experian #AmericanExpress #ATandT #RalphdelaVega #ProcterandGamble #ElectronicArts #Fabdotcom #ZyngaGames

#PLEASE TAKE NOTE that #Facebook is allowing #abuse on its #platform

Long post, avec un historique des "deux collaborations de l'#informatique", une vue plus large que les optiques focus #stallman.
#KenThompson #multics #unix #linux #ATandT #microsoft #ibm #apple #confiscation #gafam #floss #logiciellibre #capitalisme
https://ploum.net/lhistoire-du-logiciel-entre-collaboration-et-confiscation-des-libertes/

How AT&T helped build far-right One America News https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-att/

AT&T provides 90% of the funding for the deranged Trump network that undermines US democracy with bogus election fraud claims and mass kills Americans with pandemic misinformation.

#AT&T #ATT #ATandT# OAN #OANN #BigLie #Misinformation