Just a few weeks ago, Sprint unveiled a pretty tempting (and short-lived) offer on the iPhone 8: $8 per month when you sign up for a Sprint Flex plan. Today, the carrier has a similar deal lined up for Apple’s best phone (for now): The iPhone X for $5 per month. Once again, that’s with …
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Major US phone carriers may have a major problem. Researchers funded by the Department of Homeland Security discovered security vulnerabilities in mobile devices used by Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and more, DHS program manager Vincent Sritapan told Fifth Domain at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The flaws are built into phones by manufacturers before they’re bought, …
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The Federal Communications Commission has already repealed net neutrality, but the Trump administration can’t leave it there. It also wants the US Supreme Court to remove a ruling that upheld the controversial Obama-era rules. The petition, filed last week by Department of Justice lawyers, asked the Supreme Court to remand the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit’s 2016 …
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The fight over AT&T and Time Warner is still very much a thing. The US Department of Justice on Monday filed its opening brief in the D.C. District Court of Appeals, which is designed to prevent, or break up AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. AT&T closed its takeover in June, just days after a district court judge ruled in favor …
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Talk about unfair. Millions of broadband customers in rural and underserved urban markets are paying nearly identical prices for slower DSL service as customers who have access to high-speed fiber services. That’s the conclusion from a report published this week by the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), which advocates for more equitable broadband deployment. In places where AT&T and Verizon …
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Late last week, Verizon rolled out a rather surprising new option: Four lines of prepaid service for $100. That’s an unusually competitive move on the part of the Big Four carrier, one that brings it closer to the multi-line discounts offered by AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. It also directly lines up with MVNOs Cricket Wireless and MetroPCS: Both carriers also …
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Sprint continues to chug along with modest customer growth. Not that it really matters. For the quarter just ended, the Overland Park, Kansas, wireless carrier posted total customer growth of 57,000 net new customers and, most importantly, 87,000 net new phone customers in the lucrative postpaid category. But ultimately, the results, announced Wednesday, are less relevant than its pending merger …
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Huawei overtook Apple in the second quarter of 2018 to become the world’s second largest phone vendor, according to new market research. The embattled Chinese phone maker shipped 54 million handsets in the quarter, an increase of 41 percent over last year, researcher Canalys reported Tuesday. Huawei’s success was due in part to strong demand for its flagship P20 handset …
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Which wireless network is the best in the US? Well, that depends on which report you believe. RootMetrics, which released its latest rankings Thursday, has once again crowned Verizon the overall winner. But last week, Ookla, which offers a speed test app people can use to test network speeds, said T-Mobile had the fastest network. JD Power also came out …
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It’s a new world for AT&T in the post-Time Warner merger era. On Tuesday, the company reported a mixed bag of results for the second quarter. It missed Wall Street expectations on revenue but beat the Street’s predictions when it came to earnings per share, as well as number of wireless subscribers. AT&T reported earnings of 91 cents per share, …
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