On a cold and rainy Monday morning in New York, T-Mobile and Sprint headed to court to try and have their merger approved. The hearing marked the first day of a trial between the wireless carrier and a number of state attorneys general, led by New York AG Letitia James and California AG Xavier Becerra. …
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The fate of the $26 billion megamerger between T-Mobile and Sprint is in the hands of a federal judge. The companies head to court today, where they’ll defend their deal to combine the third and fourth largest wireless carriers in the US against a challenge from state attorneys general who say the merger will hurt competition and lead to higher prices. …
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The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously this week against making changes to federal cell phone safety standards, even as some have raised health concerns about the rollout of 5G technology. After six years of reviewing the issue, the FCC said it found no reason to change its existing limits for radio frequency exposure. “After reviewing the extensive record submitted in …
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Magic Leap reportedly sold just 6,000 virtual reality headsets in the six months after launching the product. This was far behind CEO Rony Abovitz’s goal of selling 100,000 Magic Leap One devices in that period, The Verge reported Friday, citing The Information — and the chief executive originally planned to sell 1 million in the first year. The Google-funded AR …
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T-Mobile’s launch of its broader 5G network on Friday, which includes the sale of the $900 OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren and $1,300 Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G, marks a big step for the next-generation wireless technology in the US, the first to cover a majority of the nation. Unfortunately for most people, that big step is right now …
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If there’s one thing that politicians on Capitol Hill can agree on, it’s that robocalls must be stopped. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives almost unanimously passed a bill to help put the kibosh on robocalls. The vote on the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act, also known as the TRACED Act, comes as a sharply divided House …
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Motorola may be charging back into the premium phone game with 5G connectivity and foldable phones in 2020, but here at the end of 2019, it’s got one more midrange deal waiting in the wings. The Motorola One Hyper is a stylish new phone with a 32-megapixel pop-up selfie camera, a 64-megapixel main camera and night mode — and it’ll only …
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T-Mobile looks to be “all systems go” ahead of its launch of a low-band 5G network this Friday. On Monday the carrier announced that it has turned on the network and has begun accepting preorders for its first two low-band 5G phones ahead of the public launch later this week. Both previously announced, the first two phones will be the …
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The states trying to stop the $26.5 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint say their case is simple: Reducing the number of nationwide wireless carriers from four to three reduces competition and is “under well-established law, presumptively illegal.” That’s the gist of the 30-page court document filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra …
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Verizon is throwing its 5G network into Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday. It’ll make the annual event an “augmented reality and hologram experience,” Verizon announced last week. 5G, already available in some parts of the US by Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, is being tapped by smartphones to provide faster speeds and more capacity, as well as AR/VR experiences. .shortcode.newsletter h2 {width:100%!important;} For the Thanksgiving parade, Verizon is …
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