Sprint sued AT&T on Thursday over its use of 5G E branding on phones that are only tapping into advanced 4G LTE. AT&T started using the 5G Evolution marketing last year, reasoning that it serves as a foundation for true 5G next-generation cellular technology. However, 5G E doesn’t mean your 4G phone can actually connect to …
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T-Mobile continues to beat its rivals at attracting new customers, even as it bides its time awaiting regulatory approval for its merger with Sprint. And company executives say they’re in the home stretch and confident the deal will close. The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier added a total of 2.4 million new subscribers in the fourth quarter. About 1.4 million of …
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Former FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn is working to help T-Mobile and Sprint get their $26 billion merger approved by regulators. Clyburn, a Democrat, confirmed she’s working as a paid consultant to the carriers to advise them on their impending merger. The news of her involvement was first reported by Politico on Monday. The companies, whose merger was announced in April last …
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Super-athlete Bo Jackson meets a mermaid and a horse with wings in Sprint’s Super Bowl 2019 ad. “How do we tell people they get the best of both worlds with Sprint?” Paul Marcarelli, the Sprint spokesman formerly known as the Verizon spokesman, asks a few cute robots hanging out with him in a living room. Replies one of them: “How …
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Wireless carriers have spent millions of dollars and years for preparing for one day. Which makes sense when that single day is the 2019 Super Bowl. The carriers have installed hundreds of new antennas and small cells (think mini cellular towers) in and around Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to increase the capacity of the network for the more than 1 …
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If you got a call from a number you didn’t recognize last year (odds are, you got a few of those), it was likely one of the 26.3 billion robocalls made in the US in 2018, according to a report from Hiya. That breaks down to an average of 10 monthly calls per person. Hiya, a caller ID service, published …
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Sprint can’t wait to team up with T-Mobile. And yet it’s already been a long, long wait. The smallest nationwide carrier on Thursday posted a fiscal third-quarter loss of $141 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with a year-ago profit of $7.16 billion, or $1.79 a share, which had the advantage of a huge bump from the 2018 tax …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Facebook’s research app that circumvented Apple rules and had the social network paying people as young as 13 years old $20 a month in exchange for personal data. Apple’s iPhone sales collapse. The heist of Tappy the robot‘s arm! The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, …
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There’s a reason Verizon can’t stop talking about 5G. The next-generation cellular technology promises a massive speed boost, as well as a network that’s smart and responsive enough to connect thousands of different devices around us — so it’s a sexy topic. What’s not sexy? Verizon’s fourth-quarter results. The mixed bag, with slightly better earnings and slightly disappointing revenue amid …
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As a robot designed to torture smartphones, Tappy looks pretty harmless. Which is why it’s a little surprising that Tappy, built by T-Mobile, now plays a central role in an international incident involving Huawei, the world’s largest telecom equipment supplier and second-largest smartphone maker. On Monday, Huawei was slapped with a 10-count Department of Justice indictment, not only for the …
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