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Day Around the Bay: AT&T Closing Its Flagship Union Square Store

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred pissed off the city of Oakland with inaccurate remarks, the SF Gay Softball League is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and yet another Union Square flagship store is closing.

Business & Tech

All About the 5G Airline Freakout and How It May Impact Travel at SFO

It's very hard to know, at this point, whose concerns are valid and whose problem this ultimately is, but a battle continues playing out between telecom companies, the FAA and the airline industry over a planned rollout of 5G wireless service — and it's coming to a head on Wednesday.

Four Ways To Keep Snooping ISPs From Seeing And Selling Your Data

Some have worried that consumer rights would lose out to corporate America during the Trump administration. Well, Tuesday's congressional vote allowing internet service providers (ISPs) to sell your personal web browsing history is

Day Around The Bay: Gigabit-Per-Second Internet Arrives In SF

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. Remember when the Hibernia Bank got majorly tagged? Well,

Facebook Launches Home (So You Can Spend More Of Your Time On Facebook)

Thursday morning at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Mark Zuckerberg gathered members of the press to finally break the seal on a long-rumored Facebook phone. More accurately: Zuckerberg and company unveiled Facebook Home

Arts & Entertainment

Afternoon Palate Cleanser: An AT&T Infomercial from 1961

We've come a long way, folks. They thought they'd come a long way in 1961 when they had things like automatic dialing phone, the first video phones, and satellite communications. But imagine having

Judge Blocks AT&T Utility Box Installation

The 726 AT&T utility boxes planned to be installed on sidewalks around the city and necessary to expand the telecom company's home TV and Internet service in San Francisco, were blocked

Prepare Yourselves for AT&T Cable TV Service, New Obstacles on the Sidewalk

After taking years to approve an alternative to Comcast's monopoly on crap cable TV and Internet service, the Board of Supervisors finally approved AT&T's Lightspeed network expansion yesterday. Meaning we'll soon

Why Does the S.F. LBGT Center Endorse the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger? [Updated]

One of the few (and perhaps only) remaining voices of untarnished activism in San Francisco, Michael Petrelis, interviewed LGBT Community Center executive director Rebecca Rolfe about the Center's unyielding support of AT&

Five Public Comment Speaking Points Provided by AT&T at Last Night's Hearing on Infrastructure Upgrades

At yesterday's meeting, the Board of Supervisors delayed their decision on whether or not to call for an Environmental Impact Review of AT&T's proposed high-speed broadband infrastructure improvements. Although we won't

Thousands of Unwanted Phonebooks Returned to SoMa AT&T Office

Oh snap. This morning at AT&T's 739 Folsom office, Phonebook Free SF delivered thousands of unwanted phonebooks to the company's doorstep. See, San Francisco Supervisors and environmental groups are trying to

AT&T Allegedly Dealing With Dead Zones in S.F.

The Business Times reports today that AT&T is pleased with themselves and "proud of the network [they] have built", as they continue to beef up their data network in San Francisco

AT&T Investing Lots In Network Upgrades, But Where?

Today's Business Journal notes that AT&T has already invested $1.1 billion this year to upgrade wireless (and wired) networks across California, which has included 100 new cell sites, 25 antennas

Apple Can't Stop You From Jailbreaking Your iPhone

And again with the phone news, but this is kind of big: The Library of Congress ruled today that iPhone users should be allowed to "jailbreak" their phone and download unauthorized applications, revising

AT&T Network Failures May Lead to Higher Phone Bills

by Rachel Brodsky Any quick glance around the MUNI demonstrates a high abundance of iPhones littering San Francisco. And if simply looking around doesn't prove it, then industry data alone should be more

AT&T To Improve Coverage In SF (Hopefully)

AT&T announced they will improve iPhone and other smart phone coverage in New York and San Francisco's financial district. Those areas "are performing at levels below our standards,” according to Ralph

The iPhone Is Killing AT&T, One 'Bump' Download at a Time

Many AT&T customers, including the legion of iPhone users out there, may be aware of some wonkiness with their wonder devices of late. Dropped calls, delayed voicemails, inability to access voicemail,

AT&T <s>Censors</s> Blocks 4chan

Did you try accessing 4chan's /b/ boards this weekend? And couldn't? Well, we tried. And couldn't. That's because AT&T "blocked user access to portions of 4chan," a move that could result

What's Going On Here, AT&T Customer?

Greg Dewar of N Judah Chronicles posted this image of an angry sign presumably posted up by an even angrier customer. The shit was snapped up yesterday afternoon at Broadway and Van Ness.

Newsom Throws Party at DNC, Sponsors Called Into Question

Current San Francisco Mayor, possible future Governor of California, and still-lost-inside-Siebel's-sugar-walls honeymooner Gavin Newsom is throwing some sort of party at the Denver Democratic National Convention. It's cloyingly called Unconventional 08, molded for

Michael Savage: Anti-Corporate Hero

Today, Hate Hurts America (chortle) and the Interfaith Coalition announced that WalMart and AT&T either stopped advertising or now refuse to place ads on Michael Savage's "Savage Nation" program, joining a