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70,000 AT&T customers were without service this morning across the US

Getty Images reader comments 167 More than 70,000 AT&T cellular customers reported being unable to connect to service early Thursday morning. While early reports suggested multiple carriers, including Verizon and T-Mobile, seemed to be affected, that appears to be a knock-on effect of a major network going down. As of late Thursday morning, AT&T had… Read More »

T-Mobile unveils $100 phone plan, topping AT&T and Verizon’s highest prices

Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 94 with T-Mobile yesterday announced a phone plan called “Go5G Next” that costs $100 a month for a single line, more expensive than the highest-tier wireless plans offered by AT&T and Verizon. In a notable development for a carrier that spent years blasting its rivals’ prices, T-Mobile issued… Read More »

After fight vs. FAA, Verizon’s and AT&T’s new spectrum is boosting 5G speeds

Getty Images | SOPA Images / reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating Share this story With AT&T’s and Verizon’s 5G battle against the aviation industry mostly behind them, the carriers have significantly boosted wireless speeds with their newly deployed spectrum. From March to September, AT&T users’ average download speeds rose 34.6 percent from 50Mbps… Read More »

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

Getty Images | d3sign reader comments 95 with 70 posters participating Share this story 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… Read More »

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. Getty Images | Scott Olson reader comments 39 with 29 posters participating Share this story AT&T today said that only 60 percent of… Read More »

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

Getty Images reader comments 23 with 20 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile on Wednesday said criminals obtained the personal 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… Read More »

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. reader comments 52 with 47 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile said on Monday that hackers breached its internal servers and that company investigators are in the process… Read More »

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. Noam Galai | Getty Images reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were… Read More »