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Verizon forces users onto pricier plans to get $50-per-month gov’t subsidy
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Verizon and other Internet service providers are preventing some low-income customers from getting new $50-per-month government subsidies unless they switch to different plans that are sometimes more expensive. Over 825 ISPs nationwide are selling plans eligible for the new subsidies that the US government made available to […]
Can any carrier’s 5G claims match its 5G service?
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Verizon “leads” all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at 0.8%
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. (credit: Verizon) US mobile customers are almost never able to connect to millimeter-wave networks even though the cellular industry and Verizon in particular have spent years hyping the fastest form of 5G. AT&T and T-Mobile customers with devices capable […]
John Legere got $137 million severance for completing T-Mobile/Sprint merger
Enlarge / Then-T-Mobile CEO John Legere testifies before the House Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Subcommittee on March 12, 2019 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla ) T-Mobile paid then-CEO John Legere $137.2 million in 2020, a year in which he worked three months and then left on the day he completed T-Mobile’s purchase […]
T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap
Enlarge / T-Mobile’s 5G home Internet gateway. (credit: T-Mobile) T-Mobile yesterday launched a $60-per-month 5G home Internet service, saying that it will generally provide download speeds of 50 to 100Mbps and upload speeds of 10 to 25Mbps. The $60 monthly price includes everything, T-Mobile said, promising, “No added taxes or fees. No equipment fees. No […]
$16 attack let hacker intercept a T-Mobile user’s text messages
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Milan_Jovic) In a new article titled “A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16,” Vice reporter Joseph Cox detailed how the white-hat hacker—an employee at a security vendor—was able to redirect all of his text messages and then break into online accounts that rely on texts for authentication. This wasn’t […]
T-Mobile will tell advertisers how you use the web starting next month
Enlarge / The logo of Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile, seen at Mobile World Congress in February 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) T-Mobile next month will start a new program that gives customers’ web browsing and device usage data to advertisers unless customers opt out of the data sharing. “[S]tarting […]
T-Mobile promised more jobs after merger, then cut 5,000 jobs instead
Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) T-Mobile has cut at least 5,000 jobs since completing its acquisition of Sprint despite promising that the merged company would start creating new jobs “from day one.” As noted by Light Reading today, a T-Mobile […]
Verizon and AT&T dominate spectrum auction, spending combined $69 billion
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | metamorworks) Verizon and AT&T dominated the US government’s latest spectrum auction, spending a combined $68.9 billion on licenses in the upper 3GHz band. Verizon’s winning bids totaled $45.45 billion, while AT&T’s came in at $23.41 billion. T-Mobile was third with $9.34 billion as the three biggest wireless carriers accounted for […]