Tag: wireless service

August 26, 2021

Before T-Mobile was probably even aware of its latest (and unfortunately, greatest ever) security breach, a treasure trove of data purportedly swiped from as many as 100 million people went up for sale online. While there’s no indication anyone actually […]

August 24, 2021

Supported by a treasure trove of mid-band 5G spectrum acquired from Sprint and a breakneck pace of deployment and expansion of said spectrum on top of its low-band network foundation, T-Mobile continues to set records, accomplish previously unimaginable feats, and […]

July 22, 2021

Just in case the best budget 5G phones out there are not affordable enough to get you to leave your outdated 4G LTE-only device behind at last, the big three US carriers have been throwing free flagships at their subscribers […]

December 16, 2020

T-Mobile might still have a fairly long way to go before catching up with Verizon in terms of subscriber numbers (after overtaking AT&T with Sprint’s help), but when it comes to 5G infrastructure, the “Un-carrier” is already so far ahead […]

July 21, 2020

Although Google has yet to unveil a single in-house smartphone thus far in 2020, the search giant is expected to eventually expand the Pixel family with anywhere between three and six new main variants by the end of the year. […]

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 18, 2020

It’s safe to say T-Mobile’s latest efforts aimed at migrating Sprint customers and integrating the “Now Network’s” mid-band spectrum to improve capacity and boost speeds didn’t go particularly well, but it actually pays off to stick with the soon-to-be-retired carrier […]

May 18, 2020

If you’ve been following the countless mobile network reports recently released by reputable research and analytics companies like OpenSignal and RootMetrics, you probably know the 5G situation in the US right now is… far from ideal. While T-Mobile has a […]

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 […]

March 6, 2020

Less than four months after T-Mobile confirmed over a million prepaid customers had their personal data compromised as a result of a “quickly corrected” security “incident”, it appears not one but two new “sophisticated attacks” may have impacted sensitive information […]

February 3, 2020

There’s been a lot of talk about the potential detrimental effects of the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint on competition in the US wireless industry, as the market would shift from four to three major players, but sometimes it feels […]

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 […]

July 8, 2019

T-Mobile has quickly grown one of the best and fastest 4G LTE networks in the US, and it wants to blanket the nation with 5G coverage as well. To do that, it argues that it needs extra power that will […]

April 25, 2019

While average download speeds (the higher the better) and latency (the lower the better) are the most commonly used indicators to rank the overall quality of cellular networks, congestion can sometimes have a greater impact on the real-life user experience, […]

March 13, 2019

Verizon is ready to turn on its real 5G network in two cities. The nation’s largest wireless provider said Wednesday that it’ll launch its mobile 5G service on April 11 in Chicago and Minneapolis. Getting onto the next-generation wireless network […]

December 17, 2018

Mobile network operators are not the only ones fiercely battling it out for various 5G bragging rights, as almost every single major smartphone vendor in the world wants an early piece of the next-gen cellular pie for themselves. While Apple […]

October 4, 2018

Excited about the 5G revolution officially kicked off by Verizon (well, sort of) earlier this week? If a couple of recent reports didn’t make it abundantly clear, it’s going to take quite some time for 5G-enabled smartphones to become mainstream […]

November 28, 2017

Google has its hands in a lot of pots, and depending on which phone you use, you may not have known that the search company has also been operating its very own wireless service since 2015. Google’s Project Fi mobile […]

August 23, 2016

After T-Mobile announced roaming in Cuba earlier this year, another major U.S. carrier has made a similar announcement. AT&T has struck a deal with Empresa De Telecomunicaciones De Cuba (ETECSA) to offer AT&T roaming in Cuba. With this agreement in […]

March 2, 2015

Google executive Sundar Pichai announced at MWC on Monday that Google will offer wireless service in parts of the U.S. However, the intent is simply to work on innovations and new features. Google isn’t planning on making a run at […]