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OnePlus announces the Nord N20: $282 price, 18-month-old OS

OnePlus is launching a new mid-range phone in the US: the OnePlus Nord N20 5G. This is a $282 phone that will be available starting April 28, exclusively at T-Mobile. For that just-under-$300 price tag, you get a 6. 43-inch “FHD+” (this should mean 2220×1080) OLED, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 4, 500 […]

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T-Mobile says it isn’t widely blocking iCloud Private Relay, blames iOS bug

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) T-Mobile has responded to complaints that it is blocking iCloud Private Relay on iPhones, saying that the block only affects subscribers who enabled parental controls or other types of content filtering. T-Mobile also says it has identified a bug in iOS that may be messing with users’ iCloud […]

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T-Mobile “inexplicably” rejected iPhone 13 rebates worth hundreds of dollars

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bet_Noire) T-Mobile has been incorrectly rejecting rebate requests from customers who purchased new iPhones, according to an article yesterday by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. T-Mobile acknowledged the problem and said it is being fixed. Gurman experienced the problem himself when he traded in an iPhone 12 Pro Max for an […]

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Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | d3sign) Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access […]

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Not enough backup power: AT&T and T-Mobile suffer big outages in Louisiana

Enlarge / LaPlace, Louisiana: Jacqueline Smith waits with her mother Lucille Matthew for transportation after they were rescued from their flooded neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on August 30, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Scott Olson) AT& T today said that only 60 percent of its network within Louisiana is working as Hurricane […]

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Hackers who breached T-Mobile stole personal data for ~49 million accounts

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) T-Mobile on Wednesday said criminals obtained the individual information of almost 49 million current, former, or prospective customers in the latest mega-hack of its servers. The haul includes customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/ID information for 7. 8 million current post-paid accounts, meaning accounts that […]

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T-Mobile has been hacked yet again—but still doesn’t know what was taken

Enlarge / A pigeon rests on a T-Mobile logo outside a mobile phone store, operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, in Munich, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) T-Mobile said on Monday that hackers breached its internal servers and that company investigators are in the process of determining if the incident […]

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T-Mobile apparently lied to government to get Sprint merger approval, ruling says

Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg ) T-Mobile apparently lied to government regulators about its 3G shutdown plans in order to win approval of its merger with Sprint, according to a ruling in a proceeding in front of the California Public […]

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A simple software fix could limit location data sharing

Enlarge / Pretty Good Phone Privacy wants to minimize how much your wireless provider knows about your location. (credit: Noam Galai | Getty Images) Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were able to pay shadowy third-party companies to track where […]

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Dish switching network to AT&T after calling T-Mobile anticompetitive

Enlarge (credit: Dish Network) Dish Network has agreed to pay AT&T at least $5 billion over 10 years for network access amid a feud between Dish and T-Mobile. Dish is in the early stages of building a 5G network and in the meantime is serving customers as a reseller using network capacity that it purchases […]