Mobile Industry Satellite-powered video calls are coming: Verizon and AT&T complete first tests The tests were conducted using AST's Bluebird LEO satellites By Kishalaya Kundu, February 25, 2025, 8:54 AM
Security The Web US soldier accused of leaking Donald Trump and Kamala Harris' call logs pleads guilty to phone records theft The suspect was arrested in December By Kishalaya Kundu, February 21, 2025, 10:39 AM 9 comments
Mobile The Web AT&T users will now see why businesses are calling before they answer The feature is currently available only on Android devices By Kishalaya Kundu, February 7, 2025, 9:26 AM
Mobile Industry AT&T offers customers bill credits for network outages with new guarantee Spectrum announced a similar offer last year By Kishalaya Kundu, January 9, 2025, 9:03 AM
Mobile Tech Culture AT&T customer hit with $6,223 bill after being on pay-per-use plan for one day Paying $2 per MB quickly adds up By Rob Thubron, December 18, 2024, 7:43 AM 22 comments
Security The Web Salt Typhoon hack exposed millions, but carriers AT&T and Verizon only notified "high-value" customers The FBI describes the hacking campaign as "broad and significant" By Kishalaya Kundu, December 16, 2024, 10:39 AM
Security US officials confirm Chinese hackers had access to law enforcement wiretap systems for months The group is a splinter of a larger state-backed hacking collective known as Typhoon By Cal Jeffrey, November 15, 2024, 2:44 PM 11 comments
Software Industry Broadcom tried to hit AT&T with a 1,050% price increase for VMware products A subscription-only model is expensive By Alfonso Maruccia, October 2, 2024, 2:24 PM 16 comments
Software Industry AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to honor existing VMware service agreements VMware parent now wants "hundreds of millions" in subscription fees to continue offering support By Cal Jeffrey, September 7, 2024, 9:28 AM 10 comments
Mobile Space AT&T ordered to halt misleading ads about satellite-based calling that doesn't exist The commercial was satirical, but T-Mobile and regulators called it lies, lies, lies By Cal Jeffrey, August 12, 2024, 2:50 PM
Security Mobile AT&T discloses another massive data breach containing phone records of "nearly all" its customers The attack occured in April making it back-to-back with the breach in March that exposed 73 million records By Cal Jeffrey, July 12, 2024, 4:07 PM 10 comments
Mobile US mobile customers are suffering from roaming outages, third-party provider Syniverse is to blame The company in question is "very sorry" and working hard to solve the unspecified issue By Alfonso Maruccia, June 28, 2024, 2:31 PM
Space Mobile AT&T wants to turn every smartphone into a satellite phone by no later than 2030 The first five satellites are slated for launch this summer By Cal Jeffrey, May 16, 2024, 4:38 PM 23 comments
Mobile Industry FCC slaps top telecom companies with $200 million in fines for selling user location data AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint continued to sell data even after warnings By Zo Ahmed, April 30, 2024, 7:43 AM 8 comments
Security The Web AT&T confirms data leak affecting 73 million customers - after spending two weeks denying it Four-digit passcodes have been reset for affected customers By Rob Thubron, April 1, 2024, 5:20 AM
Mobile AT&T wireless service outage is impacting many US customers Emergency service connectivity seems to be down or disrupted as well By Alfonso Maruccia, February 22, 2024, 1:48 PM 8 comments
Mobile Space AT&T and comsat partner complete the first satellite 'direct-to-smartphone' call Samsung Galaxy S22 becomes first unmodified cellphone to make a satellite call By Cal Jeffrey, April 25, 2023, 3:13 PM
Mobile Security Hackers accessed personal data from 9 million AT&T customers No credit card information or social security numbers exposed By Daniel Sims, March 10, 2023, 5:36 PM
Mobile AT&T walks back promise to support 3.45GHz on older phones Support for 3.5GHz on AT&T narrows By Shawn Knight, September 16, 2022, 11:37 AM 8 comments
Tech Culture The Web Comcast was too expensive and AT&T was too slow, so this man built his own ISP Michigan man awarded $2.6 million government contract to expand fiber ISP By Shawn Knight, August 11, 2022, 10:44 AM 25 comments
Industry Hardware ISPs continue to charge unfair router rental fees, potentially breaking US laws Consumers continue to be charged for network equipment, despite having their own By Vann Vicente, March 12, 2022, 8:54 AM 28 comments
Mobile Industry The status of 5G edge computing as we see challenges remain It's still early days By Bob O’Donnell, February 25, 2022, 5:34 AM
Mobile The Web AT&T's 3G shutdown won't just affect old phones Alarm and car emergency systems still need to upgrade By Daniel Sims, February 18, 2022, 4:59 PM 10 comments
The Web Industry The 5G market in the U.S. just got much more interesting The spectrum-grab has a few years in the making By Bob O’Donnell, January 21, 2022, 7:18 AM
Mobile AT&T's C-Band 5G rollout gets going in eight metro areas Wireless carriers are not happy with the FFA's response to the deployment By Shawn Knight, January 20, 2022, 1:08 PM