The first major tropical storm from the Gulf this season is on its way, and all four major mobile carriers are knee-deep in preparations to ensure their networks stay as solid as possible. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint have each detailed the work they’ve put into preparing for Tropical Storm Barry this weekend. Tropical Storm …
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5G buzz is everywhere. Billboards display the latest, fastest gadgets like Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G, TV ads tout the benefits of the fast speeds and carriers are jockeying for title of best 5G network. But with 5G networks in the US only a few months old, your 4G phone isn’t destined for the junk heap yet. In fact, the ramp-up …
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On the same day US President Donald Trump held a social media summit without inviting the two biggest social media companies, Twitter and Facebook, the White House also reportedly held an in-house meeting on 5G policy. The discussion was meant to “combat infighting” about the new mobile network technology, Axios reported Thursday afternoon. 5G, already launched in some parts of the …
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It’s one thing for wireless carriers like Verizon and Sprint to show off 5G speeds in this or that city. It’s another to test the same phone on two different networks in the same town for a taste of how 5G competition is heating up. That’s exactly what I did today in Chicago — testing peak and real-world 5G speeds …
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The Federal Communications Commission has voted to free up another band of wireless spectrum for next-generation 5G wireless service. But the vote wasn’t without controversy. On Wednesday, the agency voted 3-2 to auction spectrum in the 2.5GHz band. This sliver of airwaves, known as the Educational Broadband Service, had been set aside for educational purposes during the 1960s. License holders …
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Adults aren’t the only ones benefiting from the evolution of smartwatch tech. Doki Technologies on Wednesday rolled out DokiPal, a 4G LTE enabled smartwatch for kids, with features like an AI voice assistant, video calling and location tracking. The $179 watch is water resistant and also includes a fitness tracking leaderboard. Parents can use the Doki App on iOS and …
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Some of the computing industry’s biggest innovations have come from research labs. The transistor was created at AT&T’s Bell Labs, the hard drive by IBM Research and the graphical user interface at Xerox’s PARC. NTT, one of Japan’s telecommunications giants, wants similar success. It’s already got thousands of researchers in Japan working on projects with near-term potential, but now it’s …
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AT&T’s super speedy 5G network is coming to the MGM Resorts NBA Summer League in Las Vegas this month, the carrier said Wednesday. AT&T will work with the NBA to use 5G to stream video at games on July 10 and 11. 5G, the next-generation mobile technology, provides faster speeds, more capacity and lower latency (the time it takes a …
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AT&T is now making its Call Protect fraud caller blocking service a default for its new mobile customers. If you’re an existing customer, don’t worry: The company says it’ll make this feature the default for you, too, in the coming months. AT&T said Tuesday it was able to make this change thanks to a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission last month …
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Next-generation 5G networks may be finally coming online around the country, but there is still plenty of progress being made on 4G. In its latest report chronicling US wireless network performance during the first half of 2019, Ookla found that AT&T’s 4G LTE network — err, “5GE” — was the fastest 4G network in the US, though all four networks …
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