US wireless carrier T-Mobile is kicking off new promotion designed to give customers twelve months of the Apple TV+ service free of charge, a $60 value.
T-Mobile promotion offers 12 full months of Apple TV+ for free
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Apple starts featuring carrier trade-in iPhone offers on its website
Apple has begun highlighting the various promotional trade-in deals for the latest iPhone from major United States carriers in a new webpage on its website and banner.
3 ways to find your carrier on iPhone
With older iPhone models that had a Home button and no notch at the top, you could see your cell phone carrier in the status bar. But if you’ve recently upgraded to an iPhone X, iPhone 11, or iPhone 12 model, you can’t see the carrier like before. These phones have a notch at the top that limits the screen space for the status bar.
You can still find out your iPhone carrier company quickly if necessary, with a couple of gestures or the Settings app, here’s how.
Carriers fighting COVID-19 pandemic by pushing “Stay Home” messages when Wi-Fi is off
If you're seeing a "Stay Home" message in the iOS status bar where cellular network information is displayed as soon as you switch off Wi-Fi on your iPhone, you're not alone — that's one way carriers are reminding subscribers to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 that its marketing uses.
T-Mobile unveils its 5G network in the US
T-Mobile USA today announced it's switched on its 5G network which it claims covers more than 200 million people and more than 5,000 cities and towns all across the United States.
2020 iPhones said to feature the most advanced 5G chips, made by Qualcomm
All three iPhone models that Apple is planning to release in 2020 will boast the world’s “most advanced” 5G chips available, Japanese news service Nikkei reported Wednesday.
US cities and states ranked by mobile network speeds
Open Signal, a company that specializes in mapping wireless coverage, conducted a study of LTE mobile network speeds in more than 80 countries around the globe, including the United States, and the results are eyebrow-raising but not really shocking.
Security flaws in both 4G and 5G networks let attackers intercept calls & track locations
New security flaws that have been discovered in both 4G and the upcoming 5G cellular networks make it easy for an attacker to eavesdrop on your phone calls and track your location.
Verizon is now offering free access to Apple Music
Verizon Wireless said today that folks on its Beyond Unlimited ($50 per month) and Above Unlimited ($60 per month) plans can now get free Apple Music as a perk on an ongoing basis.
T-Mobile’s new Caller Verified feature offers more protection from scammers and spammers
Carrier T-Mobile on Thursday announced a new feature, Caller Verified, which promises to offer additional, better protections from scammers and spammers than its existing tools.
Your location data may have landed in the hands of bounty hunters and the black market
A disturbing report published Tuesday on Motherboard revealed that the location data US carriers collected from users and sold to legitimate companies might easily land in the hands of bounty hunters and the black market where it could be used for nefarious purposes.