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 »
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 »
Getty Images | Eugene Mymrin reader comments 101 with AT&T’s stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone cables could cost the industry tens of billions of dollars. AT&T stock dropped 4.1 percent to $14.50 on Friday, reportedly… Read More »
Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 42 with Verizon is replacing its confusing mess of six “unlimited” wireless plans with a slightly less confusing menu of options. Starting tomorrow when the new plans roll out, customers selecting a new plan will have two primary choices. Only the more expensive option will include access to the… Read More »
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 »
Enlarge / A Boeing 777. reader comments 9 with 8 posters participating Share this story The Federal Aviation Administration today said it has cleared 62 percent of US commercial airplanes to perform low-visibility landings at airports where AT&T and Verizon are deploying 5G on C-band spectrum this week. Several international airlines previously canceled some flights… Read More »
reader comments 69 with 62 posters participating Share this story Verizon is automatically enrolling customers in a new version of a program that scans mobile users’ browser histories—even when those same users previously opted out of the program when it had a different name. The carrier announced changes to its “Verizon Selects” program along with… Read More »
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. reader comments 40 with 30 posters participating Share this story Verizon has made a deal to use Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to add capacity to the Verizon cellular network and provide fixed-wireless Internet service in rural parts… Read More »
reader comments 53 with 37 posters participating Share this story Numerous Visible Wireless subscribers are reporting that their accounts were hacked this week. Visible runs on Verizon’s 5G and 4G LTE networks and is owned by Verizon. Suspicions of a data breach at Visible started Monday when some customers saw unauthorized purchases on their accounts: @Visible… Read More »
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 »