1 Dividend to Buy, 1 Dividend to Sell

• Report this Comment On December 23, 2011, at 9:08 PM, ChrisJanO wrote:

  Why Would You Buy AT & T After It Just "Threw Away" $4 Billion On A Failed Purchase Of

  T-Mobile

  Sprint Won And Should Benefit From The DOJ Ruling!

  AT & T Lost Big Time!

• Report this Comment On December 23, 2011, at 11:05 PM, conradsands wrote:

  According to the report “Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers 2008-10,” two of the 25 companies with the largest total tax subsidies were AT&T at #2 ($14.5 billion) and Verizon at #3 ($12.3 billion). Also, there were 30 corporations that paid less than nothing in aggregate federal income taxes over the same period. These 30 companies, whose pretax U.S. profits totaled $160 billion over the three years, included Verizon. The report states the laws that allow this were not enacted in a vacuum, but rather were adopted in response to relentless corporate lobbying, threats and campaign support.

  AT&T remains the worst carrier in the United States, according to an annual customer satisfaction survey compiled by Consumer Reports. The mobile provider ranked dead last for the third year in a row.

  In other news, in a poll that asked 4,040 smartphone users how many dropped calls they had experienced in a three-month period, AT&T — carrier of Apple's iPhone and iPad mobile devices — came in dead last among the country's four largest carriers.

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