President Donald Trump touted Charter Communications’ new $25 billion investment in broadband infrastructure and its already announced plan to hire 20,000 American workers as signs that his policies are working to attract new investment and create jobs. Charter, the second-largest cable operator in the US since its $65 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and …

Now playing: Watch this: How to stop robocalls 2:42 Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days, but one thing they can rally behind is ending annoying robocalls. The FCC adopted rules in March 2017 that will allow phone companies to be more aggressive in blocking annoying and illegal robocalls. Nease, MCT Graphics via Getty Images On Thursday, the …

AT&T’s 911 service outage earlier this month affected thousands of customers across the country, according to a preliminary report from the Federal Communications Commission. On March 8, roughly 12,600 callers throughout the US were unable to reach 911 emergency dispatchers for five hours, Lisa Fowlkes, acting chief for the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau, told commissioners at the …

The Senate voted Thursday to approve a measure that could make it easier for broadband providers to sell private information about you to marketers. In a 50-48 vote, lawmakers approved a joint resolution from Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, that uses the Congressional Review Act to prevent privacy rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission last year from …

It may not feel like it on the US East Coast with mounds of snow piled along the streets, but Monday marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Of course, if you’re below the equator, it marks the first day of fall. Google is heralding the day with Doodles. The word “equinox” comes from the Latin for …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s AR world could be getting closer 1:30 Apple is assembling a top-notch team of engineers to bring augmented reality, or AR, to the masses. More details about the people the company’s been hiring emerged Monday in a Bloomberg report. The team, which includes some notable Apple insiders, is also being bolstered by expertise from a …

AT&T hopes to win over fans of “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” and other HBO shows with a promotion that offers access to HBO for free for a year on its new DirecTV Now streaming TV service. But there’s a catch: You’ll have to dish out the big bucks for one of the company’s most expensive streaming TV bundles to get …

Wearable tech may finally be coming into vogue as smartwatches and other wearable devices are expected to see big sales starting this year. Sales in the market are expected to grow by 18.6 percent for the next five years, according to market research firm IDC. As tech companies partner with more fashion brands, smartwatches in particular will get a boost, …

T-Mobile may be off the hook for the deaths of two Dallas residents who had trouble reaching 911 operators earlier this month. City officials said Thursday that so-called “ghost calls” from T-Mobile customers are not to blame for a flood of calls to 911 operators in Dallas that clogged the system and led to longer than usual wait times. T-Mobile …

Workers at a 911 call center in Los Angeles. An emergency call center in Dallas is experiencing serious problems. Getty Images A “ghost call” glitch in the emergency call system in Dallas may have led to the death of a 6-month-old infant after a babysitter using T-Mobile cell service couldn’t reach 911 dispatchers, city officials said Wednesday. Another man also …