Samsung is ready to reveal some more details on why its Galaxy Note 7 have been exploding, but there’s a bigger mystery at hand: Why are so many people still using the potentially fiery phones? Verizon reported that thousands of its customers could still be holding onto their Galaxy Note 7 devices, even after Samsung …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung may finally explain Note 7 failure on Monday 1:23 Some Verizon customers apparently know a hot item when they see it and don’t want to part with it. That appears to be the case with the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The wireless carrier told Fortune that much to its dismay, “thousands” of its customers continue …
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Verizon and AT&T are clamping down on their legacy unlimited-data customers. AT&T said its jacking up its unlimited plan by $5 a month, and Verizon is booting folks who use more than 200 gigabytes a month on a similar plan. We discuss why the two biggest US carriers would make these changes, even as competitors Sprint and T-Mobile keep pushing …
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Now playing: Watch this: FCC: AT&T and Verizon’s free data programs violate net… 1:34 The Tom Wheeler-led Federal Communications Commission is taking a final shot at AT&T and Verizon Wireless. On Wednesday, the FCC’s wireless bureau issued a report (PDF) spelling out how AT&T’s DirecTV Now online video service and Verizon’s FreeBee Data 360 offer, which allow companies to pay …
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Depending on who you ask, this is either a new age for unlimited data or the end of a really good ride. Verizon and AT&T are playing hardball with legacy unlimited data customers, people who signed up for all-you-can-eat data in the early days when it was cheap, and never gave it up. AT&T said on Tuesday that it would …
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After her company officially sells to Verizon, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is stepping down from the board. It’s been in the headlines for months that Yahoo is selling itself to the telecom giant for $4.8 billion. But actually, it’s a little more complicated than that. Not all of the company is being sold, just Yahoo’s consumer web business, which includes …
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When T-Mobile has held an Un-carrier event to shake up the industry, consumers have typically applauded the outcome. Then came this past summer and Un-carrier 12. In what could arguably have been its biggest move, the company said it was switching to a single unlimited-data option. For most people, the internet on their phone IS the internet, T-Mobile CEO John …
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Four years into its turnaround, T-Mobile is celebrating another big year in customer gains. CEO John Legere on Thursday bragged about the wireless carrier’s success at adding new customers and offered a glimpse at subscriber growth results for the fourth quarter and all of 2016. The company held a press conference at CES 2017 in Las Vegas to announce its …
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T-Mobile‘s bombastic CEO, John Legere, brought out his crystal ball to offer some bold predictions for the wireless industry in 2017. Speaking at the company’s CES press conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Legere rattled off eight possibilities for 2017. These predictions include everything from big cable companies entering and quickly exiting the wireless market to the unseating of three …
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Las Vegas is the city of splashy, neon-lit promises. When the hype circus known as the CES trade show arrives in early January, well, things get even crazier. This is, after all, the show that last year brought you Samsung’s super-fridge. So there’s no better place to talk about 5G, which is simultaneously the one of the most overhyped technologies …
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