This past October AT&T had announced that they will start throttling the data usage for customers that were on the Unlimited Data Plan. Even though AT&T no longer allows Unlimited Data for new customers, many of the original iPhone buyers were grandfathered into the plan. These iPhone customers retain the unlimited plans even though AT&T has switched their existing plans into tiered data plan structures. It turns out that AT&T has started throttling these unlimited data users after 2GB of data is used now.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is ending their bid for T-Mobile USA. AT&T had announced in March 2011 that they have offered $39 billion to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. However AT&T had a hard time getting through all of the legal hoops associated with the acquisition. This is what AT&T had to say about the government regulation:

Carrier IQ is software that has been installed on about 150 million smartphones, which tracks personal information about users. Security researcher Trevor Eckhart discover the software and posted a video about it on YouTube. People were outraged by what they saw on the video and Carrier IQ was thoroughly investigated after that.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has added free WiFi to four New York City parks. AT&T has announced that they are adding free WiFi service to Mineral Springs and Tavern on the Green in Central Park, Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Devoe Park in the Bronx. Below is a press release about the news:

DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH) will likely partner with T-Mobile USA if AT&T’s acquisition deal falls through. DISH acquired additional wireless spectrum earlier this year as part of a deal for buying the bankrupted DBSD North America Inc. and Terrestar Networks Inc. DISH could merge their spectrum assets with T-Mobile or another wireless company to intensify the rivalry against AT&T and Verizon.

LG Electronics Inc. (SEO:066570) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) held an event at the New Museum in New York’s SoHo district with celebrity photographer Tyler Shield to announce the LG Nitro HD, which is the first smartphone to have a true HD AH-IPS display. The Nitro HD will be available in AT&T stores or att.com starting tomorrow with a 2 year contract. It will cost $249.99. Other features of the LG Nitro HD include 4.5-inch display, 1280×720 pixel resolution, 500 nit display luminance, Qualcomm dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S3 processor, and slim design (5.27″x2.67″x0.41″). It has an 8 megapixel HD camera and 20GB of total memory (4GB on-board and 16GB of included microSD memory). The phone’s WiFi and DLNA offers multiple wireless HD content streaming options as well.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) will soon start selling the white version of the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. The white version of the Galaxy S II Skyrocket will be available for a limited time offer starting December 4th. The specs of the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket include 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen, Android 2.3.5, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video, and 2 megapixel front camera. The price for the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket white and black version is $249.99. [SlashGear]

After withdrawing their acquisition approval application from the FCC and having to deal with the U.S. Justice Department, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is weighing what to do with T-Mobile. One idea is that AT&T and T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom would team up for a joint venture by putting their infrastructure together.