T-Mobile has its sights set on Verizon Wireless customers. The company said Wednesday it will cover the payments left on your Apple iPhone or Google Pixel if you bring it over from Verizon. Since they work equally well on both networks, the hope is that customers will just keep their phones when using T-Mobile service. …
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Verizon is hoping that auto racing fans on hand for the Indianapolis 500 will take a look at ultra-high speeds of another sort. The company said Monday that it has worked with Ericsson and Intel to set up a house near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with 5G mobile fixed broadband service — think a replacement for your wired DSL or …
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Now playing: Watch this: ZenFone AR scores a first 1:35 This summer, Verizon will be the only carrier to sell the Asus ZenFone AR, the first phone with both of Google’s reality-altering features. More from Google I/O 2017 Android O, Google Lens and VR: Everything important from Google I/O Google Photo’s AI is better at sharing your photos than you …
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Verizon really, really wants to get its 5G ambitions going. The nation’s largest wireless carrier said Thursday it would buy Straight Path Communications, snatching the little-known company away from AT&T, which previously agreed to acquire it. Verizon said it would pay $184 a share, or $3.1 billion. That’s nearly double the $1.6 billion AT&T offered. Verizon will also cover a …
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It turns out 1 percent makes for a huge difference. In recent months, Sprint has contended that its overall network reliability is within 1 percent of larger rivals Verizon and AT&T, and actually exceeds T-Mobile, and that you’re better off with one of its plans, which can be as much as half off the competition’s rates. Why pay so much …
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Trouble getting a cell signal indoors? Sprint says it has a fix. The company will soon offer customers their own mini cellular antenna designed to provide better LTE coverage inside businesses, homes and the surrounding areas, Sprint said Wednesday. The device called the Sprint Magic Box simply plugs into the wall for power and acts as a cellular signal booster, …
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T-Mobile wants to take the lead in 5G — even if it’s not the kind of 5G you’re expecting to get. The nation’s third-largest carrier on Tuesday unveiled plans to build out its next-generation wireless network using the radio airwaves it just purchased in a government auction. The focus for its 5G network isn’t necessarily speed, but instead broader coverage …
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With T-Mobile tearing up the wireless industry, what’s a carrier to do? If you’re AT&T, start looking outside the wireless business. AT&T doesn’t want to be known as just a telecom company anymore. It’s using its DirecTV Now streaming service to take control of what you watch and of how you watch it. AT&T owns one of the key services …
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For very specific AT&T users, things are about to get much faster. The telecommunications giant announced the next step in its “5G Evolution” on Tuesday, offering faster internet speeds at twice the pace of its current 4G LTE network. Just as long as you live in one of the 20 major cities where it’s offering the trial run. Oh, and …
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No choice appears to be the right choice for T-Mobile customers. The backlash over T-Mobile One — the company’s unlimited data plan — seems like a distant memory. When the carrier in August first unveiled its decision to remove all of its plans in favor of a single unlimited option, it drew heaps of scorn as customers complained that they …
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