Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is hoping its high-flying internet balloons can help the people of Puerto Rico, about a month after Hurricane Maria made landfall. On Friday, the search giant announced some balloons from its Project Loon program had been deployed over Puerto Rico, in an effort to provide people with limited internet access. That …
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AT&T dangles HBO and the promise of “Game of Thrones” when you sign up. T-Mobile throws in Netflix for its family plan customers. Where’s the Verizon entertainment bundle? The New York telecommunications company has waded into the media world with its acquisitions of AOL and Yahoo, but those deals are more about delivering advertisements, not video. It also has an …
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Are phones getting boring? Little-known phone maker ZTE has something to say about that. The Chinese company on Tuesday introduced the Axon M, a phone that rocks two displays — one on each side — that flip open to create a larger combined screen. Is it weird? Yep. It also marks a radical departure from the slew of lookalike metal-and-glass …
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When it comes to 5G networks, there’s something beyond pure speed to get excited about. Next-generation mobile networks will be able to accommodate a lot more people and a lot more data as carriers like Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T and manufacturers like Nokia and Ericsson improve the total capacity of the network. That means your phone won’t be fighting against …
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AT&T‘s foray into the online streaming video business is slowly gaining ground. The Dallas telecommunications giant disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had added a net 300,000 customers to its DirecTV Now streaming service in the third quarter. That’s compared to the 491,000 customers it added in the first half of the year. Overall, the company …
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The Federal Communications Commission is kicking in money to help restore badly battered phone service on Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The agency voted Wednesday to provide up to $76.9 million in Universal Service Fund money to help wireless carriers restore service. The FCC unanimously voted to provide the funds immediately to carriers. It also promised up to …
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The biggest benefit of AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner? Cheaper prices for consumers, fueled mostly by more targeted advertising. That’s what AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Wednesday at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills. Stephenson said not many people can afford the $110 to $120 a month cable companies charge for their traditional TV bundle. …
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The V30, LG‘s most premium phone of the season, will be available on the country’s three largest carriers starting Thursday, Oct. 5. The phone will be available online and in retail stores for Verizon right on Oct. 5, without pre-order. On AT&T, you can purchase the phone online that day too, or buy it in retail stores when it will be available …
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AT&T is trying to take the fight over the Obama-era net neutrality rules to the US Supreme Court. On Thursday, AT&T, the cable industry group NCTA, and CenturyLink filed separate appeals asking the court to overturn the controversial 2015 rules. A federal appeals court last year upheld the rules, which were passed by a Democrat-controlled FCC and supported by President …
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T-Mobile and Sprint are quickly becoming the Ross and Rachel of the wireless industry. The nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers are in active discussions for a merger, according to a person familiar with the talks. It could take anywhere between three and five weeks before the deal might be made official, although there’s no guarantee it will go through. CNBC’s …
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