Sprint’s 5G service is just around the corner. As long as you’re in one of four markets. Sprint Chief Technology Officer John Saw said in a press conference on Monday that 5G will turn on in Chicago, Atlanta, the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the company’s hometown of Kansas City. Another five markets — Los Angeles, …
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Eager to jump on T-Mobile’s 5G network? You’re going to have wait a little longer. T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray said in an interview at MWC on Monday that the company won’t be formally launching its 5G service in its first 30 cities until the second half of 2019. The reason: the lack of phones that can tap into …
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LG and US carrier Sprint unveiled the LG V50 ThinQ 5G phone on Sunday at MWC 2019 in Barcelona. It’s the Korean phone-maker’s first 5G-enabled device, meaning it’ll connect to the latest generation of high-speed mobile data. As one of the first few high-end 5G phones, it’ll also directly compete with Samsung’s recently launched 5G phone, the Galaxy S10 5G. …
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Samsung and the MWC Barcelona conference have long had an up-and-down relationship. The energy at the trade show has ebbed and flowed depending on whether the world’s largest handset maker decides to hold its big first-half phone launch in Spain. If Samsung shows up, there’s a noticeable perk in interest. On Wednesday, just days before this year’s MWC kicks off, …
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Verizon is asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to lock new phones it sells in an effort to curb the growing problem of customer identity theft. The nation’s largest wireless carrier filed a petition with the agency on Friday asking the FCC to grant it a waiver so that it can start locking new phones it sells to consumers …
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It’s never too early to be thinking of the next, next generation of wireless. At least that’s the stance President Donald Trump is taking. In a pair of tweets Thursday, Trump proclaimed he’d like to see “5G and even 6G technology” deployed in the US “as soon as possible.” In not so many words, he pretty much told US carriers …
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Haters can’t bring down the T-Mobile and Sprint merger. That’s the word from outspoken T-Mobile CEO John Legere. Legere on Friday shared his thoughts about the $26 billion deal to merge the nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless providers, responding to critics and calling for support on the deal. “Opponents are weighing in, too. We hear them,” Legere wrote in a …
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AT&T on Thursday pulled its advertising from Google-owned YouTube after a blogger demonstrated how comments on the platform were being used by a “soft-core pedophelia ring” to share child exploitation videos. This comes after Disney, Epic Games and Nestle made similar moves Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported. “Until Google can protect our brand from offensive content of any kind, we are removing …
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President Donald Trump says American companies “must step up their efforts” to establish 5G networks in the US, or “get left behind.” In a pair of tweets Thursday morning, the president said he wants to see 5G technology “and even 6G technology” in the US as soon as possible, adding that “there is no reason that we should be lagging …
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Verizon’s speedy 5G network is coming to 30 cities this year, CEO Hans Vestberg told investors Thursday. The company didn’t say which cities will be first in line for its 5G service or how widely the technology will be deployed in the selected places. Vestberg also didn’t say exactly when the service will launch, but that it’ll happen by the …
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