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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: 70,000 AT&T customers were without service this morning across the… »

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

T-Mobile discloses 2nd data breach of 2023, this one leaking account PINs and more

reader comments 35 with T-Mobile on Monday said it experienced a hack that exposed account PINs and other customer data in the company’s second network intrusion this year and the ninth since 2018. The intrusion, which started on February 24 and lasted until March 30, affected 836 customers, according to a notification on the website… Read More: T-Mobile discloses 2nd data breach of 2023, this one leaking… »

Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to T-Mobile for $1.35B

Enlarge / Hug it out, boys. reader comments 146 with Share this story As every Roman historian and Shakespeare fan knows, a soothsayer once told Caesar to beware the Ides of March, for on that day, dark and terrible things would happen. I like to think the message was intended for me, too, because today,… Read More: Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to… »

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: After fight vs. FAA, Verizon’s and AT&T’s new spectrum is… »

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: Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was… »

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: Not enough backup power: AT&T and T-Mobile suffer big outages… »

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: Hackers who breached T-Mobile stole personal data for ~49 million… »

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: T-Mobile has been hacked yet again—but still doesn’t know what… »

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: A simple software fix could limit location data sharing »