T-Mobile today unveiled the “Great Free 5G Phone Upgrade” which includes a free 5G smartphone, including the best-selling iPhone 12 lineup…
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T-Mobile leads the 5G rollout race in the U.S. – report
For the first time, T-Mobile wins Opensignal’s award for 5G Download Speed. Opensignal’s T-Mobile users saw average 5G download…
Apple, other techs wary of full disclosure of secrets in Google antitrust case
Apple said confidential material they provided for the U.S. antitrust probe of Google should not be shared because secrets they include…
T-Mobile launches live TV streaming with free year of Apple TV+, $80 off Apple TV 4K
T-Mobile today launched three distinct TV streaming services — TVision LIVE, VIBE and CHANNELS — with three different streaming services…
Carrier wars seen boosting Apple iPhone 12 sales
Wireless carriers eager to attract new subscribers to their 5G networks are likely to provide a lift to Apple’s December-quarter sales …
Good news for Apple and consumers: The 5G iPhone is reigniting the carrier subsidy wars
Apple and consumers are in the driver’s seat as the carriers, with the launch of Apple’s iPhone 12 family, offers aggressive subsidies …
Apple prepares to launch 5G iPhones into unprepared U.S. market
Apple is set to feature 5G as a significant new technology to this year’s batch of iPhones, but the U.S. network is still not ready for 5G …
Apple and T-Mobile team to offer up to 1 million discount iPads for distance learning in California
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced today that the California Department of Education (CDE)…
T-Mobile offers customers free iPhone SE with trade in
T-Mobile is offering a free iPhone SE with a trade in of an eligible smartphone to customers on a postpaid T-Mobile or Sprint plan. This deal is…
T-Mobile to kill off Sprint brand this summer
T-Mobile plans to kill off the Sprint brand. The newly merged Sprint/T-Mobile entity is already presenting a unified strategy in the enterprise department…
John Legere abruptly resigns from T-Mobile board ‘to pursue other options’
John Legere has formally cut ties with T-Mobile US, the company he led as CEO for over seven years. After guiding T-Mobile’s turnaround and merger…
FCC looks to fine U.S. carriers $200M over improper location data sharing
The U.S. FCC is set to propose fining four major U.S. carriers at least $200 million in total for improperly disclosing consumer real-time location data…
T-Mobile tops J.D. Power wireless purchase experience in 5th straight win
T-Mobile tops J.D. Power’s 2020 U.S. Wireless Purchase Experience Study – Volume 1 for full-service providers once again. This is the fifth straight win…
T-Mobile – Sprint merger wins approval
A federal judge on Tuesday approved wireless carrier T-Mobile US Inc’s merger with Sprint Corp. which already has federal approval…
There are three types of 5G and most of what you’ll get is not super-fast
There are three types of 5G being built in the United States including low-band, mid-band and high-band mmWave 5G…
T-Mobile launches non-mmWave, 600MHz 5G network across the U.S.
T-Mobile today announced that its 600MHz 5G network has gone live across the United States…
Texas settles with T-Mobile, Sprint over merger
Texas’ attorney general has settled with T-Mobile Inc and Sprint Corp and will drop his opposition to the $26.5 billion merger…
T-Mobile data breach affects over 1 million subscribers
T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data was exposed…
T-Mobile adds postpaid eSIM support for iPhone XS, XR, and XS Max
T-Mobile today announced expanded support for embedded SIM (eSIM), which is basically just a physical SIM card gone digital…
Carriers are adopting ‘Caller ID on Steroids’ to put an end to robocalls
Spam and robocalls are such a widespread problem — Americans endured over 26 billion of them in 2018 — that the FCC has stepped in…
How Apple Card could put pressure on Verizon and AT&T
Apple’s brand new Apple Card credit card with Goldman Sachs could be a disruptive force in more than just the banking industry…
Killing robocalls: How SHAKEN/STIR blocks spam calls with caller ID authentication
Based on the SHAKEN/STIR framework, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Comcast will now verify phone calls between the companies’ networks…
AT&T and T-Mobile will now verify phone calls between their networks to fight robocalls
Based on the SHAKEN/STIR framework, AT&T and T-Mobile will now verify phone calls between the compnays’ networks…
Faster internet is coming, but not for everyone
Benefits of the broadband advances are mostly going to consumers who already have plenty of options for robust internet connections…
How Apple’s next iPhone threatens Verizon, AT&T, other carriers
The next model of Apple’s iPhone, expected this fall, may have a surprise that’s more profound than…
U.S. DOJ nears approval of T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint
The U.S. Department of Justice is nearing approval of T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint. An announcement could happen as soon as…
PC Mag reveals America’s Fastest Mobile Network 2019: AT&T
We’ve been testing mobile data speeds for 10 years now. This time around we drove 9,652.5 miles through 30 US cities…
Dish Network nears $6 billion deal for T-Mobile, Sprint assets including Boost Mobile brand
Dish Network Corp. is in talks to pay at least $6 billion for assets that T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp….
U.S. FCC makes it easier for phone companies to block ‘robocalls’
Apple also announced this week its revised iPhone operating software will give consumers the ability to allow only calls to ring from numbers in contacts, mail, and messages and send all others to voicemail automatically…
Sprint and AT&T settle ‘5G E’ lawsuit; AT&T will continue to use ‘blatantly misleading’ 5G E logo
AT&T and Sprint have settled a lawsuit over AT&T’s ‘5G Evolution’ branding…
iPhone ‘unlimited’ wireless plans: AT&T vs. Sprint vs. T-Mobile vs. Verizon
All four of the major carriers in the United States offer competitive ‘Unlimited’ plans, but they all vary…
AT&T’s misleadingly marketed ‘5G E’ network not faster than 4G on T-Mobile and Verizon
AT&T’s controversial ‘5G E’ network — really rebranded 4G LTE…
T-Mobile US pushes back its 30-city 5G rollout until 2H 2019
T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray said in an interview at MWC on Monday that the company…
San Jose family billed $13,470 for half-hour of iPhone internet
When you travel overseas you want to make sure you won’t run up exorbitant fees…
Apple and four major U.S. carriers partner on 200GB iCloud promo ahead of new iPhones
Apple and the four major U.S. carriers are offering iCloud’s 200-gigabyte tier…
Apple opens online iPhone Upgrade Program enrollment to T-Mobile customers
Apple this week added T-Mobile to a short list of major U.S. wireless operators…
T-Mobile: Hackers stole personal data of more than 2 million customers
On August 20, T-Mobile’s cyber-security team discovered and shut down an unauthorized access to certain information…
T-Mobile introduces cheaper, stripped-down unlimited plan: The plan is $10 less a month
T-Mobile on Monday introduced T-Mobile Essentials, a cheaper alternative to its T-Mobile One plan…
T-Mobile, Sprint to file merger application to FCC on Monday
Wireless companies Sprint Corp and T-Mobile US Inc have informed the Federal Communications Commission…
This is the biggest privacy scandal hardly anyone is talking about
We are in the midst of a major and worrying data privacy scandal…
Share buyback boom remains in overdrive after President Trump’s tax cuts
The stock buyback boom continued apace with U.S. companies announcing $6.1 billion of buybacks a day…
Why regulators should approve the T-Mobile/Sprint Deal
If T-Mobile and Sprint play their cards right, the chances of getting the deal through this time ‘round are much better…
