If, for any number of reasons, you’d like to burn telecoms to the ground and build a new internet service provider on their smoldering remains, good news for you. New York City Spectrum workers, who’ve weathered an anguishing four-year strike, have built their own internet service provider. If...
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Verizon, along with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), has issued a recall of roughly 2.5 million Ellipsis Jetpack hotspots as they, quite literally, get too hot to handle. Read...
On Thursday, Samsung announced plans to launch an upgraded version of its Galaxy SmartTag smart trackers, the aptly named SmartTag+, globally on April 16 with a U.S. rollout expected sometime “in the coming weeks.” Read...
Sometimes it just makes sense for companies to rethink their entire portfolio instead of churning out another generation of the same old devices, which is exactly what Nokia is doing with its new X, G, and C-series phones. Read...
Last week, UK-based semiconductor design company Arm announced plans for the next generation of chips. The v9 architecture comes ten years after the release of v8, which is currently the standard used for mobile phone central processing units (CPUs) and many other processors.There are some...
T-Mobile would really like to bring you aboard the 5G train. As part of its latest Un-carrier initiative, the company announced it’s letting customers upgrade their smartphones to a 5G phone for “free,” offering a $60 home internet plan, and promising unlimited data for all. Read...
Revenue growth for Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei fell dramatically in 2020 as overseas sales shrank in the wake of US sanctions and disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the company reported on Wednesday.Why it matters: The decline comes as Huawei’s revenues...
Revenue growth for Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei fell dramatically in 2020 as overseas sales shrank in the wake of US sanctions and disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the company reported on Wednesday.Why it matters: The decline comes as Huawei’s revenues...
Revenue growth for Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei fell dramatically in 2020 as overseas sales shrank in the wake of US sanctions and disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the company reported on Wednesday.Why it matters: The decline comes as Huawei’s revenues...
As China’s semiconductor industry races to catch up with international standards, a talent gap is one of its highest...
As China’s semiconductor industry races to catch up with international standards, a talent gap is one of its highest...
Verizon Is Offering Big Discounts and Trade-Ins on Broken Phones on April 1, and It’s Actually Not a Prank
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Now’s the time of year when it pays to be extra wary of pranks and promotions that seem too good to be true. But starting tomorrow, yes, on April 1, Verizon has some big discounts on phones and trade-ins for broken devices that are totally legit. Read...
President Biden set out to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to roll out a sweeping infrastructure proposal that could completely revamp—among many other things—the way the country gets online.Read...
Fast-growing fintech Pipe has raised another round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, just weeks after raising $50M in growth funding, according to sources familiar with the deal. Although the round is still ongoing, Pipe has reportedly raised $150 million in a “massively oversubscribed”...
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Comcast announced it will start rolling out the Disney+ and ESPN+ apps to Xfinity customers beginning today, offering support well over a year after the launch of Disney’s marquee streaming service. Better late than never, right?Read...
The FCC announced today that it’s started soliciting first-hand accounts from people who are forced to rely on crappy internet. This new initiative is part of the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection program, and the agency hopes that by collecting information directly from consumers, it will be...
It’s not every day that a new player enters the smartwatch game, so I was intrigued when OnePlus’s then-CEO Carl Pei hinted last summer that a wearable might be on the way. The rumors have been ramping up the past few weeks, and now we know what the watch will look like. After months of...
Concerns over the potential harms of 5G technology are overblown, according to two large new reviews of research recently published by scientists in Australia. Both found no clear evidence that the type of radiofrequency energy used by 5G mobile networks poses any danger to human health.Read...
Whistleblower Alleges AT&T Overcharged Underfunded Schools for Phone and Internet Service
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A former in-house lawyer for AT&T alleges the company systemically charged the nation’s most underfunded schools a higher rate for phone and internet service. In an interview with The Washington Post, Theodore Marcus said the telecom ignored federal E-Rate program rules, which offers schools and...
Whistleblower Alleges AT&T Overcharged Underfunded Schools for Phone and Internet Service
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A former in-house lawyer for AT&T alleges the company systemically charged the nation’s most underfunded schools a higher rate for phone and internet service. In an interview with The Washington Post, Theodore Marcus said the telecom ignored federal E-Rate program rules, which offers schools and...
AT&T just lambasted California’s recently enacted net neutrality laws, blaming the state as the reason why it can no longer offer certain data features to consumers free of charge.Read...
About two years ago, wireless carriers in the U.S. and South Korea flipped the switches on the first commercial 5G networks. And while 5G is still in its infancy, now seems like a good time to take stock of where 5G is at right now, and where it’s going.Read...
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei will begin charging smartphone makers royalties of up to $2.50 for each 5G-enabled handset they sell that uses its patented 5G technology, the company announced on Tuesday.Why it matters: The plan means global smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung are...
With investments into next-gen communications continuing to ramp up, Nokia has decided to cut up to 10,000 jobs over the next two years to help cut costs and reinvest resources into 5G. Read...
Get a Controller and Chromecast Ultra When You Buy Google Stadia Premiere Edition for $60
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AT&T just announced that it will expand 5G connectivity to customers with older unlimited plans for free starting this month.Read...
Earlier this year, multiple sectors called out for help as chip shortages wreaked havoc across the auto industry, the gaming market, and more, and now it seems those issues are starting to affect Android phones too as the supply for Qualcomm chips begins to dwindle. Read...
T-Mobile laid out some bold plans regarding the expansion of its 5G network during a virtual event with analysts today. Read...