AT&T is making good on plans to bring its AT&T Fiber to more cities. The company on Wednesday said the ultra-high-speed broadband service is now in 12 additional cities. This brings the count up to 10 million locations spread across 84 metro areas in the US. AT&T intends to hit 14 million locations by mid-2019. …
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The Federal Communications Commission said it’s getting tough on text message spam by clarifying that phone companies can block unwanted texts. At its monthly meeting Wednesday, the Republican-led agency voted 3-1 to classify SMS text messages as a so-called Title I information service under the Telecom Act. The three Republicans on the FCC, which voted to adopt the classification, said …
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Huawei, the second-largest smartphone maker and one of the biggest telecommunications equipment suppliers in the world, had a rough start to the year. A widely expected deal to be announced at CES that AT&T would carry the Huawei Mate 10 Pro never materialized. Then reports surfaced that Verizon Wireless had also pulled out of a deal. In March, CNET reported …
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Just about everything you hear about 5G points out how its higher data speeds will let you download videos or update your apps much more quickly. Well, whoop-de-do. Faster data is helpful, but a different 5G benefit could actually be a bigger deal: reducing network communication delays called latency. Latency is the time it takes to get a response to …
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It seems like a perfect marriage. OnePlus has announced it’ll launch its 5G phone in the first half of 2019. Verizon can’t stop talking about 5G. But fresh evidence that OnePlus’ 5G phone won’t land on Verizon’s network came to light this week at Qualcomm’s annual tech summit held in Maui, HI. OnePlus has already cozied up to Verizon with the OnePlus …
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If you want a 5G phone next year, you’re going to pay much more for it. How much more? In the case of OnePlus, it could be $200 to $300 higher than this year’s flagship OnePlus 6T, CEO Pete Lau said in an interview with CNET. That’s a whopping 36 percent to 55 percent increase. The Chinese handset maker has …
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One of the new features in the latest crop of iPhones — the XS, the XS Max and the XR, to be specific — is the ability to use eSIM to activate another line on your phone without need for a second SIM card. Now with the release of iOS 12.1.1 on Wednesday, the feature is up and running for AT&T …
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AT&T has added another 5G device to its upcoming lineup. The carrier said Wednesday it’s working with Samsung to offer another 5G phone next year. The smartphone will support 5G mmWave and sub-6 GHz and will be offered in the second half of 2019. This comes after AT&T said Tuesday it will carry a 5G Samsung phone starting in the spring. In October, …
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With all the talk about 5G at Qualcomm’s conference this week, it’d be easy to assume that you’d automatically get 5G with the company’s latest Snapdragon 855 processor. You’d be wrong. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 will power most high-end Android 5G smartphones next year — but the chip itself doesn’t actually provide the speedy connectivity. Instead, accessing the new network requires …
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You’d never know by looking at the brick-like phone that it’s one of the fastest devices on the planet. The generic-looking handset is a prototype design that Qualcomm made to showcase 5G, but it — and another prototype made by Samsung — prove that the age of 5G phones and networks is coming fast. Qualcomm, alongside partners Samsung, Verizon and …
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