Category: Networking

June 19, 2020

T-Mobile President of Technology Neville Ray had a lot of explaining to do after his otherwise much-lauded network was brought to its knees across the nation on Monday, but now that the catastrophic outage is behind Magenta customers, it’s time […]

June 4, 2020

It’s no longer a big secret that the coronavirus pandemic has hit both individual smartphone manufacturers like Samsung and Huawei and the mobile industry as a whole particularly hard from more than one standpoint. But while most major factories around […]

June 1, 2020

5G is all about lightning-fast speed, for your phone and beyond. This next-generation wireless technology promises to make downloads and uploads ultrafast, but it’s also poised to open up new or better ways of doing everything from growing food to […]

May 29, 2020

While its profits are still a far cry from what Verizon or AT&T notch each quarter, they are nearing a billion for the first time, and T-Mobile is still in its growth phase where it prioritizes subscriber increase. The merger […]

May 21, 2020

Yesterday, Verizon sent us a press release detailing a few new developments around its 5G network efforts. Tucked between more mundane news that it flipped the 5G switch in San Diego and signed up technology partners for the future of […]

May 12, 2020

Ericsson has increased its 5G forecast despite the ongoing uncertainty caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, predicting there will be 2.8 billion connections by 2025 – 200 million more than previously estimated. Last month, the Swedish telecoms giant told investors the […]

May 6, 2020

It’s no longer a big secret that the US mobile 5G landscape is… pretty messy, as the nation’s major wireless service providers are each doing their own thing when it comes to implementing the different flavors of 5G technology, which […]

April 28, 2020

Recently, OnePlus pushed an update to fix OnePlus 8 and Pro issues with touch sensitivity and screen green-tinting. Now, after numerous reports on the OnePlus forums from OnePlus 8 Pro users having issues with Verizon’s network, OnePlus has released a […]

April 9, 2020

While our good ol’ 4G LTE networks speeds are beginning to appear in the rearview mirror, especially in the few areas where Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile or Sprint have 5G equipment up and running, it has been a remarkable ride. A […]

April 6, 2020

The top four UK mobile operators have issued a joint statement asking for help to stop people burning 5G towers. Multiple cell towers were targeted in the UK last week in apparent arson attacks, after online conspiracy theories have been […]

March 26, 2020

Every 4G network is susceptible to a form of denial-of-service (DoS) attack, researchers say. We are in the early stages of a rollout of 5G, the next-generation wireless technology that will replace 4G, offering improved speeds and latency in the […]

February 24, 2020

It wasn’t that long ago when HTC was to Android phones what Xerox was to copiers but now people barely remember the name. We’ve talked before about how and why HTC lost its standings. And while many have written off […]

February 14, 2020

Less than two weeks after a heated Super Bowl during which it managed to win the download speed battle (at least in the small parts of the Hard Rock Stadium where football fans actually got a 5G signal) while losing […]

January 30, 2020

Verizon had a strong fourth quarter adding subscribers as it appears the company’s 5G rollout may be helping fuel net phone additions. But the financial results for the quarter were mixed. For consumer lines, Verizon said it added 852,000 retail […]

January 28, 2020

The UK government will allow Huawei to provide some equipment for the country’s 5G networks – but the Chinese company will not be allowed to be involved with the sensitive ‘core’ parts of 5G networks. The government also said there […]

January 24, 2020

The Super Bowl is probably the biggest annual sporting event in North America. Fans from across the country gather in Miami on February 3rd to watch the NFL championship final and they’ll want to have a good time above all. […]

January 9, 2020

Not to be outdone by Verizon’s bombastic 5G claims and promises made at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show, AT&T took the glamorous Vegas stage yesterday to announce some of its milestones planned for the rest of 2020. America’s second-largest wireless […]

January 8, 2020

Verizon plans to launch 20 5G devices in 2020, or four times the number that came out last year. More importantly, the devices won’t all command a hefty premium. Verizon plans to release phones that initially fall under the $800 […]

December 24, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and the hype for 5G is immense. Verizon talks about all of the different applications at a keynote at CES. A few next-generation networks had already turned on in December 2018, and after years of […]

December 18, 2019

Verizon turned on 5G in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Wednesday — its third new 5G city in three days and its 21st city altogether. Hoboken’s rollout follows the same in Los Angeles on Monday and in Des Moines, Iowa, on […]