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T-Mobile is taking a new approach to wireless billing by charging separately for devices and data and doing away with the traditional two-year contract. In a major media event Tuesday, T-Mobile chief executive John Legere said that the new T-Mobile plans could save consumers a whole lot of money compared to other carrier plans. But how does that claim match up? It can be a little difficult to do an apples-to-apples comparison — features such as hotspot capabilities or unlimited talk and text differ from carrier to carrier — but T-Mobile's...

NEW YORK — AT&T is extending from 20 months to 24 months the time it takes for customers on contract-based plans to earn a fully subsidized upgrade to a new phone. The move announced Sunday follows an identical one by Verizon Wireless in April. AT&T Inc.'s new policy applies to any customer whose contract expires in March 2014 or later. Extending the time between phone upgrades saves the phone companies money, since they subsidize each new phone by hundreds of dollars to make it available to...

More than 130 years after the first residential phone line was installed, telecom companies are pressing to be freed from the obligation of providing low-cost fixed-line telephone service to homes, a move critics say will leave Americans with less reliable or more expensive options. Four states have passed laws that release the telephone companies from this requirement, as consumers flock to mobile phone and Internet devices. Several other state governments, facing vigorous lobbying by phone companies , are considering similar measures.

NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. on Monday said it's adding a walkie-talkie-like application to the iPhone for its corporate customers, replicating a hallmark feature of the Nextel network, which is being shut down this summer. A push-to-talk feature is available on some non-Nextel phones from Sprint, Verizon and AT&T, but this is the first time it's available on the iPhone in the U.S. With push-to-talk systems, the user pushes a button to broadcast a voice message to a group — in the case of the AT&T...

Where: Congressional Country Club (7,255 yards, par 70), Bethesda. Purse: $6 million ($1,080,000 winner's share). Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 2 p.m.; Friday, 3 p.m.); WUSA-9, WJZ-13 (Saturday-Sunday, 3 p.m.). Defending Champion: K.J. Choi. Tickets Weekly Clubhouse Badge: $250. Weekly Grounds Pass: $85. Daily Grounds Pass: $25 Thursday or Friday, $30 Saturday or Sunday. Daily Youth Pass (ages 13-17): $15. Children 12 and under: Free (limit two children per paid adult)

Daniel Wojoski, 79, who retired in 1988 as a supervisor of corporate engineering for AT&T, died Aug. 4 at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He had Alzheimer's disease. The death was confirmed by his daughter Joann Perkins-Brenner. Mr. Wojoski spent his AT&T career in the Washington area and worked for the company 41 years. He moved to Florida from Chantilly in 1997. Daniel Wojoski was born in New London, Conn. During World War II, he served in the Navy in the European and Pacific theaters.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against AT&T on Thursday alleging that the telecommunications giant is discriminating against older workers. The centerpiece of the suit is the charge that by company policy, AT&T will not rehire workers who have previously retired from the company. "To deny you the opportunity to work again doesn't make any sense, particularly if you have experience," said Louis Graziano, an EEOC attorney working on the case. "The government doesn't prohibit you from having a...

The District of Columbia is suing telecommunications giant AT&T to redeem the unused balances on prepaid calling cards -- a lawsuit that could generate funds for the city and trigger legal claims in other jurisdictions and against other companies that sell prepaid calling cards. Under the lawsuit filed last week in D.C. Superior Court, the city wants the card balances -- known in the industry as "breakage" -- to be treated as abandoned property that could be claimed by the District if unused after three years.

Following the lead of IBM , Amazon and Google, AT&T on Tuesday said it is entering the cloud computing market with the worldwide launch of a service called AT&T Synaptic Hosting. The AT&T application hosting service builds on technology the company acquired when it bought USinternetworking in 2006 and five of its data centers located in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The company plans to add more to the cloud service over time. Like other offerings, AT&T's system employs a virtualized storage and server pool that...

AT&T's second-quarter financial results reported yesterday indicated that the weak economy is catching up to the nation's largest telecommunications company, but investors were largely satisfied with what they saw. AT&T earned $3.77 billion, up 30 percent from $2.9 billion in the comparable period last year. Revenue rose 5 percent, to $30.87 billion. The company's stock has been hammered in the last few months by the expectation that wary consumers would tighten profit. AT&T slightly missed...

NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. on Thursday said promotions are pulling in a large number of new phone customers, but the cost of subsidizing devices for them will hold back profits this year. The nation's second-largest cellphone company said it expects to report adding a net 500,000 new devices on contract-based plans during the April-June period. That would be the best second-quarter figure since 2010. Since most Americans already have phones, the number of new customers added every quarter has been slipping across the industry.

Tiger Woods's annual pre-tournament appearance at Congressional Country Club came Monday, and the scene that played out — Woods, with a microphone, sitting comfortably before a throng of media members, club officials and others in a large hall at the center of the opulent clubhouse — felt at many levels customary. Woods helped save PGA Tour golf in the Washington area by bringing the AT&T National to Congressional in 2007, and his affiliation with the event and the Bethesda club has helped the...

All reviews are written by Cappies student critics and edited by Cappies adult mentors prior to publishing. Maddy DeFreece , a student at Oakton High  School , reviews ‘The Wiz' performed by T. C. Williams High School as a part of the Cappies Critics and Awards Program. "He's the Wiz and he lives in Oz", but recently, The Wiz "Eased on Down the Road" to T.C. Williams High School. First opening on Broadway,...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Russ Smith scored 23 points and had eight of the Cardinals' NCAA tournament-record 20 steals, and Louisville had 67 deflections in a demolition of the Aggies, 79-48, Thursday night. Peyton Siva added eight assists, four steals and six points for top-seeded Louisville, which limited No. 16 seed North Carolina A&T to 42 percent shooting and harassed the Aggies into 27 turnovers. The Big East champions (30-5) sure had it going Thursday night. No 16th seed has...

DAYTON, Ohio — His team's mere presence in the NCAA tournament certainly defied odds , but somehow Liberty junior John Caleb Sanders had the ball in his hands in the final seconds, his team trailing by one and the underdog Flames begging fate to carry them farther. Sanders sprinted down the court at University of Dayton Arena, cutting across the paint and sending the possible game-winner into the air. "This is what they dream about every day," Flames...

The dream of having a truly connected car may be getting closer. General Motors and AT&T announced that they will work together to put 4G WiFi connectivity into cars starting in 2014, opening up a new consumer electronics platform for app developers. The push to create connected cars has been gaining force in the past few years, as auto companies at industry trades shows touting features, such as the ability to send and receive social media updates from the car. GM's OnStar service has been offering connected-car features...

Kim S. Spraker, 55, a secretary with AT&T from 1979 to 2010, died May 7 at Inova Fairfax Hospital of a gastrovascular disorder. Kim Eileen Sanders was born in Tucson and grew up in the Washington area. She was a 1975 graduate of Fairfax High School and had been a McLean resident since 1984. Suvivors include her husband of 30 years, Christopher J. Spraker, and their daughter, Jennifer S. Whitney both of McLean; and her father, Lester L. Sanders of Phoenix. — Lauren Wiseman

AT&T has started offering the RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8120, a substantially improved replacement for the Pearl 8100. The earlier model suffered from several problems, including locating the Micro SD card slot behind the battery, which had to be removed to swap cards; a non-standard headphone jack, and EDGE-only data service.The 8120 relocated the Micro SD slot to the side of the phone for easy access, swapped in a standard 3.5 mm headset/headphone jack...

HTC went big Tuesday morning with the launch of its HTC One smartphone, a slim silver and black 4G smartphone that the company hopes can stem its flagging fortunes. The HTC One brings a couple of distinctive features to the table, including a redesigned user interface that echoes Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 design, though on a phone that runs Google's Android operating system. HTC calls its new skin "Blinkfeed ," an interface that highlights updates from various apps in a grid-like layout.