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Tag Archives: Carriers
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AT&T sends a survey via text message asking responders to rate AT&T service but AT&T's network rejects the reply message.
Russian wireless carriers stop selling the iPhone
According to Hi-Tech Mail, Russia’s three biggest wireless carriers, VimpelCom Beeline, MegaFon and MTS, have recently decided to stop selling the Apple iPhone to their customers, likely due to the intense and rigid conditio...
AT&T has bought Cricket for $1.2 billion
AT&T recently announced that it has put the finishing touches on the acquisition of Leap Wireless, which many of you probably know as the parent company of the increasingly popular Cricket Wireless brand. However, it seems tha...
T-Mobile USA’s new ‘Jump’ plan allows customers to upgrade phones every 6 months
Sick and tired of two year contracts? I know I definitely am. Tired of being stuck with the same phone for two years? I know lots of people that will eerily chant “yes” to that question, especially considering smartphones are pret...
AT&T is going to sell user data to advertisers, offers opt-out program to those who don’t like it
Following what other companies have been doing for quite some time now, AT&T is now planning to sell data it collects from subscribers to other businesses — namely advertisers. This data includes wireless and Wi-Fi locat...
Will Foxconn become a wireless carrier?
Major manufacturer of electronics Foxconn — perhaps better known for their manufacturing of Apple devices as well as for allegations surrounding worker conditions and salary — has indicated interest in becoming a wirel...
US government is collecting millions of phone records from Verizon on a daily basis, courtesy secret court order
In some rather disturbing news, it has been revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans making calls through Verizon’s phone service. The news came from The Guar...
Developer claims Apple and carriers are throttling data speeds on iPhone and iPad
According to Joseph Brown, a developer of hacked carrier updates for iOS, Apple and carriers are “purposefully” throttling the data speeds of the iPhone and iPad to help “even out” the network of some carriers: “Apple ...
Australian wireless carrier Telstra’s network was taken down by… a beer fridge
Australian carrier Telstra has said that they recently found the source of a “black spot” (an outage) in their wireless network for several neighborhoods. The source is a beer fridge in a garage in a house in the area....
AT&T attacked T-Mobile with ads. T-Mobile is now striking back with their own clever ad campaign.
Last week, AT&T attacked T-Mobile in an ad campaign that saw full-page newspaper ads highlighting the disadvantages of going with the carrier. According to the ads, compared to AT&T, T-Mobile has “2x more dropped cal...
Wireless carriers are responsible for your Android phone being vulnerable to hackers, says expert
“You don’t need [a zero-day exploit] to attack most Android devices if consumers are running 13-month old software,” says Chris Soghoian. Soghoian is principal technologist and senior policy analyst with the American Civil L...
Cell phone carriers are charging customers for data they don’t use, according to a study
No one on a capped data plan wants to go over their monthly — or daily or whatever — limit because overage charges are often extreme. So you would think carriers would have a system in place to ensure accurate counting...