Apple starts featuring carrier trade-in iPhone offers on its website
The company has begun actively promoting the various iPhone trade-in deals from major US carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon via a new webpage and banner.
Carriers
3 ways to find your carrier on iPhone
Forgot who your phone carrier is? Here are 3 ways to check what cellular carrier your iPhone is currently on.
Carriers fighting COVID-19 pandemic by pushing “Stay Home” messages when Wi-Fi is off
Your carrier logo in the iOS status may remind you about social distancing and staying home in these times when the world is fighting to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.
T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom claims it owns the exclusive rights to the color magenta
German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom, which owns wireless carrier T-Mobile, claims that it owns the exclusive rights to the color magenta.
T-Mobile unveils its 5G network in the US
The Deutsche Telekom-owned carrier claims it’s the biggest 5G network in the United States with coverage of more than 1 million square miles, much of that in rural America.
2020 iPhones said to feature the most advanced 5G chips, made by Qualcomm
All three iPhone models that Apple will release next year should boast the world’s most advanced 5G chips made by Qualcomm, a new report claims.
US cities and states ranked by mobile network speeds
Open Signal published its study of LTE mobile network speeds conducted in a bunch of countries, including the United States, and the results are eyebrow-raising but not shocking.
Security flaws in both 4G and 5G networks let attackers intercept calls & track locations
Major US telcos and almost all of the cell networks outside the US are vulnerable to these attacks, in addition to many cellular networks in Europe and Asia.
Verizon is now offering free access to Apple Music
Apple has just expanded its reach with free Apple Music membership now being offered as a perk to Verizon Wireless customers who are on the carrier’s Beyond Unlimited and Above Unlimited plans.
T-Mobile’s new Caller Verified feature offers more protection from scammers and spammers
“It’s a bad day to be a scammer,” said the carrier as it launched a new feature that offers customers even more protection from scammers and spammers than before.
Your location data may have landed in the hands of bounty hunters and the black market
While carriers record locations of customers’ devices on their network, they have little oversight in terms of monitoring how that data is being used once sold to a third party.
Apple launches carrier billing for Apple ID purchases in a further seven countries
Carrier billing is a convenient payment method for Apple ID that charges iTunes and App Store purchases to your mobile phone bill (or deducts them from your prepaid amount).
