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Tech NewsComcast, T-Mobile, and AT&T Will Wait a Little Longer for Their Money If They Have To
Verizon isn’t the only telecom and ISP to extend its non-cancellation pledgethrough the end of June: Comcast, T-Mobile, and AT&T have all announced that they will be doing the same, continuing to help individuals, families, and small businesses affected by the covid-19 pandemic by waiving late fees and overage charges. As in the case with … Continued
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Tech NewsTech PolicyHere’s The Paltry Sum Your Phone Company Could Pay for Illegally Sharing Your Location Data
Yesterday, Gizmodo reported that the FCC was planning to seek around $200 million in fines against major phone carriers accused of negligently sharing the real-time locations of its customers with a host of shady third-party firms without even the most basic safeguards in place to protect them. Today, the FCC made the actual figures public, … Continued
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Tech NewsTech PolicyReports: Judge to Rule in Favor of Dreaded T-Mobile and Sprint Merger
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero is set to allow the $26.5 billion T-Mobile and Sprint merger to go forward, clearing the path to merge the nation’s third and fourth-largest wireless carriers into a single behemoth that would rival Verizon and A&T, reports indicated on Monday night. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal both … Continued
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Tech NewsSprint Sacrifices Virgin
Ahead of an official ruling on the proposed megamerger between T-Mobile and Sprint, all Virgin Mobile USA users will be moved over to Boost Mobile beginning next month. RIP VMU. A spokesperson for Sprint confirmed the news and told Gizmodo that it began notifying customers about the change earlier this week. In a statement, the … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle Sneaks 3 More Upgrades Into the Pixel Feature Drop
Just a couple weeks ago, Google announced its first Pixel feature drop that added a bunch of new software upgrades including automatic call screening, better quality video calls in Duo, and more. But now that the update has finally arrived, it appears Google has snuck in three more new updates to the Pixel 4. The … Continued
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Tech NewsT-Mobile and Sprint Head to Court to Defend Their Very Bad Megamerger
More than a dozen states are suing to stop a deal that would see two of the top U.S. telecoms companies merge into one, a move that state attorneys general argue would harm consumers and raise prices. That trial was scheduled to begin early Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New … Continued
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Tech NewsFCC Finds Wireless Carriers Wildly Overstate Coverage, Gives Them More Money Anyway
On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission, the ghoulish specter of a disemboweled regulatory body, for a fleeting moment appeared before a House oversight committee as shadow of its former self. It produced: a report! The result of a year-long investigation, FCC field agents exposed mobile carriers’ sham claims of providing coverage to underserved areas; the … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsT-Mobile’s 5G Network Goes Live Today: Here’s What You Should Know
After a lot of prep and more than a little hype, T-Mobile is finally flipping the switch on its 5G network today (a few days ahead of its previously announced December 6th launch date), so here’s a quick overview of what’s changing. Following the launch of Verizon’s 5G network in April and Sprint’s 5G network … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityA Whole Bunch of T-Mobile Prepaid Customers Got Hacked
As the saying goes, I am, therefore I am hacked. Or something like that. Such is the existence of T-Mobile prepaid customers, more than a million of whom had their account details and other personal information exposed by an unauthorized breach, according to TechCrunch’s estimate. The company announced the breach in a letter to customers … Continued
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Tech NewsT-Mobile CEO John Legere Is Stepping Down
T-Mobile has announced John Legere, the company’s CEO since 2012, will step down on April 30, 2020. Mike Sievert, current COO, will become CEO, and Legere will remain a member of the company’s board. The executive shakeup comes as T-Mobile and Sprint move to finalize a $26 billion merger. T-Mobile thanked Legere for his service … Continued
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Tech NewsWeWork Reportedly Wants T-Mobile CEO John Legere to Take Over Its Cursed Company
T-Mobile CEO John Legere may be considering hanging up his magenta regalia for good. The Wall Street Journal reports that the brazen Batman-obsessed executive is in talks with WeWork about possibly filling the void left by Adam Neumann when he took a reported $1.7 billion to leave his CEO position in the midst of the … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy Are People Suddenly Getting Mysterious Text Messages?
Early Thursday morning, people all over the U.S. and Canada began receiving strange text messages that didn’t make a whole lot of sense. The texts were from people they knew but they lacked context and appeared to have been sent months ago. And it really freaked some folks out! Mercifully, there is an explanation for … Continued
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Tech NewsT-Mobile and Sprint Merger Gets Official Approval From the FCC
After more than a year in review and several extensions, the FCC has finally given the T-Mobile Sprint merger its final approval. The new carrier—which people have been calling New T-Mobile—will become the second-largest U.S. carrier with control of 29.4 percent of post-paid wireless market according to data from earlier this year. That share is … Continued
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Tech NewsSprint Took Millions in Federal Subsidies for Service It Didn’t Provide, FCC Says
In news that seems to have soured Sprint’s bid for a mega-merger with T-Mobile, the Federal Communications Commission announced this week that it’s investigating the company over millions in misappropriated subsidies. Sprint, meanwhile, says it improperly collected funds because it was confused about a rule change. The agency said Tuesday it found that Sprint collected … Continued
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Tech NewsNYC Sues T-Mobile Over Rampant ‘Abusive’ Sales Tactics at Metro Stores
The City of New York is suing T-Mobile over what it described as “pervasive” and predatory sales tactics carried out by dozens of the company’s Metro locations, activity the city alleges was not only “abusive” but also illegal. A complaint filed in the state Supreme Court in Manhattan and first reported by Reuters alleged that … Continued
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Tech NewsTech PolicyBig Telecom, Every U.S. State Vow to End America’s Robocall Hell
Twelve major phones companies and the attorneys general of every state in the U.S. announced a plan on Thursday intended not only to stem the flood of illegal robocalls that have forced many Americans to stop answering their phones, but aid law enforcement in hunting down the soulless ghouls responsible. “Robocalls are a scourge—at best, … Continued
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Tech NewsTech PolicyDemocratic Senators Urge FCC to Delay T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Vote, Seek Public Comment
In July, the Department of Justice cleared T-Mobile’s planned takeover of Sprint, paving the way for the nation’s third and fourth largest wireless carriers to merge into a titan to rival AT&T and Verizon. Sixteen states are suing to block the merger, and now some congressional Democrats are lobbying to have the Federal Communications Commission … Continued
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Tech NewsAT&T and T-Mobile Fight Robocall Menace With New Call-Verification Partnership
Mobile users are rightfully exhausted with receiving predatory robocalls, and certainly of getting spoof calls attempting to trick them into answering. Companies this year finally started to do something about it—and now, AT&T and T-Mobile say they’ve joined forces to better shield their customers from robocallers. The companies announced Wednesday that they’ve joined forces on … Continued
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Sixteen States Now Suing to Stop the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger
Oregon has joined several other states in a lawsuit to stop the planned T-Mobile merger with Sprint, adding strength to a movement to stop the shrinking telecom market from becoming even less competitive. In late July the Department of Justice approved T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint, a $26 billion deal that would allow U.S.’s third-largest wireless … Continued
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Tech NewsTech PolicyDOJ Approves T-Mobile and Sprint Megamerger, Says Dish Network Will Somehow Compete
T-Mobile’s planned takeover of Sprint took a sizable step forward on Friday after a deal negotiated with the U.S. Justice Department behind closed doors was announced. Under the proposed scheme, the nation’s third and fourth-largest wireless carriers would be forced to sell off wireless spectrum and prepaid businesses (such as Boost Mobile) to Dish Network, … Continued
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