Mobile Paying off your Verizon phone online could delay unlocking by 35 days Verizon tightens phone unlock rules after federal requirement ends By Skye Jacobs, February 17, 2026, 7:03 AM
Security Mobile FCC rolls back plan to make cybersecurity a legal duty for telecom carriers The commission is betting on voluntary industry measures instead of enforceable standards By Skye Jacobs, November 24, 2025, 9:41 AM
Mobile Industry Verizon to slash 15,000 jobs in its biggest shake-up ever New CEO is pushing a sweeping cost-cutting overhaul amid shrinking growth By Skye Jacobs, November 15, 2025, 10:24 AM 14 comments
Mobile The Web Verizon tries to win back T-Mobile customers with $500 credit and free iPhones Former Verizon users say 'no thanks' to carrier's comeback deal By Kishalaya Kundu, March 20, 2025, 12:13 PM 10 comments
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
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
Mobile Industry T-Mobile and AT&T warn that FCC's proposed unlocking rule could increase phone prices The FCC wants users to be able to unlock their phones after 60 days of activation By Kishalaya Kundu, October 22, 2024, 12:12 PM 29 comments
The Web Tech Culture British mobile network EE advises against giving smartphones to children under 11 At what age should kids be given smartphones? By Shawn Knight, August 26, 2024, 12:10 PM
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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
Mobile Nothing says it won't be launching the Phone (1) in the US Nothing will come of Nothing (in the US) By Rob Thubron, June 22, 2022, 9:27 AM 7 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 notifies customers that they will lose service if they don't buy a new phone Talk about your planned obsolescence By Cal Jeffrey, July 22, 2020, 3:34 PM 19 comments
Industry Tech Culture The time for pragmatism in tech is now Repositioning tech as a beneficent force that can help improve our society and our world By Bob O'Donnell, March 24, 2020, 10:40 AM
Industry Mobile Huawei sues the FTC after US telecom funds ban Huawei is fighting back against what it considers an "unlawful order" By Adrian Potoroaca, December 5, 2019, 12:26 PM
Industry AT&T and Microsoft partnership on network edge compute highlights future of cloud and 5G Intelligent cloud, a connected edge, and a compute-enabled intelligent network? By Bob O'Donnell, December 3, 2019, 11:02 AM
Mobile Verizon's updated "Unlimited" plans are just as confusing as before At least 5G is free... for now By David Matthews, August 2, 2019, 5:25 PM 13 comments
Industry Mobile T-Mobile, Sprint and Dish: It's all about 5G A "new" T-Mobile, a new fourth carrier, and the potential for a Wi-Fi replacement By Bob O'Donnell, July 30, 2019, 11:11 AM 12 comments
Mobile Industry Trump's campaign wants the government to control 5G It could help regional areas, but will it take off? By Isaiah Mayersen, March 3, 2019, 10:06 AM 17 comments
Mobile Google Google Fi SIM cards can now be purchased at Best Buy The Fi service relies on multiple carriers, upfront pricing, and no service commitment By Dean Pennington, February 11, 2019, 6:50 PM
Mobile Virgin Mobile goes iPhone-exclusive, offers first year of unlimited service for $1 The carrier will no longer sell Android phones By Jose Vilches, June 21, 2017, 3:00 PM
Industry Sprint's Magic Box boosts cell signals Sprint wants to become No. 1 or No. 2 in terms of network quality by the end of next year By Cal Jeffrey, May 4, 2017, 6:00 PM 13 comments
Mobile Apple T-Mobile will offer the iPhone 6S for $5-per-month under leasing plan By Rob Thubron, September 24, 2015, 9:30 AM