When 5G arrives in force, it won’t just be for you. It’ll be for the robots, too. Or maybe more precisely, for you and the robots working together. That was the point of one of the demonstrations Thursday at Verizon’s 5G lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a knee-high humanoid robot trundled up and down several …
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Problems are stacking up for Huawei as the US cracks down on the Chinese technology giant. After the US government barred Huawei from using US products, which includes Google’s Android operating system, the company is reportedly slowing down production of its phones, according the South China Morning Post. Foxconn, a Taiwanese company that manufacturers electronics from Apple, Huawei, Sony, Nokia, …
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Want the fastest mobile download speeds possible? Move to Cleveland. On networks in the 50 largest US cities, mobile analytics company Opensignal found that Cleveland provided about double the speeds of Oklahoma City, which came in last: 32.8 megabits per second versus 16.9Mbps. The top five fastest cities were Cleveland, Minneapolis, New York, Detroit and Pittsburgh, while the bottom five were …
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Justice Department officials want T-Mobile and Sprint to form a new, competing wireless carrier as part of a deal to approve their $26.5 billion merger, according to Bloomberg. The two wireless carriers are working on possible concessions to get the deal approved, unnamed sources told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Merging T-Mobile and Sprint would reduce the number of major US carriers …
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AT&T said it’s adding Locast, an app that streams local broadcaster TV for free, to DirecTV and U-Verse starting Thursday. Locast provides access to local broadcast stations including ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX to people with broadband-connected receivers. It’s available in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington DC, Houston, Boston, Denver and Baltimore. AT&T said it’ll still provide its free Local …
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With Apple’s WWDC 2019 right around the corner, the company has made a change to its App Store that could make downloading apps a bit easier. But those on limited data plans should be wary. Apple’s cellular download limits for apps increased this week from 150MB to 200MB in the App Store. The change was spotted earlier by 9to5Mac. This means users will …
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Amazon is interested in snapping up the Boost Mobile prepaid wireless service if Sprint and T-Mobile decide to divest it to push through their $26.5 billion merger, a report says. The online retail giant wants Boost so it can use T-Mobile’s wireless network for the next six years as part of an attached wholesale deal, Reuters reported Thursday. “Amazon would …
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AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have all either launched or are about to launch their respective 5G networks. One carrier that has been quiet, however, is T-Mobile. While the self-proclaimed “Un-carrier” has been quiet about its exact 5G launch plans, the first signs of the new network seem to have popped up in New York. Milan Milanović, who works for Speedtest.net owner …
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The Federal Communications Commission’s second 5G spectrum auction has ended, raising $2 billion in gross bids. 5G, already launched in the US by Verizon and AT&T, is the next-generation network being used by smartphones to provide faster speeds and more capacity. Through its second auction, the FCC sold off a batch of millimeter-wave (mmWave) high-bandwidth spectrum in the 24GHz band, with …
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Qualcomm’s about to see more competition in the 5G chip market. Taiwan-based MediaTek said late Tuesday it’s built its first processor that integrates the brains of a device on the same chip as 5G, 4G and other wireless connectivity, which should improve the battery life of devices. The company’s biggest customers will get samples in the third quarter of this …
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