Verizon holds the lead in 4G while T-Mobile catches up; AT&T takes faster downloads award
Opensignal’s latest results show that Verizon still holds the lead when it comes to 4G availability, but other carriers are showing improvements, too.
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AT&T will launch its 5G network for consumers in December
AT&T is one of the biggest wireless network providers in the United States, and today the company confirmed that it will finally get its real 5G network up and running before the end of 2019.
Apple partners with Sprint, Samsung, and eBay on a new wind farm in Texas
Apple has partnered with Samsung, eBay, and Sprint on a brand new 500-megawatt wind farm located in Texas.
Sprint launches mobile 5G network in four cities
As the major wireless carriers put all of their focus on 5G networks, being “first” is a priority. Sprint has just announced its first initial wave of 5G coverage in four major U.S. cities.
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.
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.
Major US carriers unveil cryptographically verified phone number authentication for apps
The yet-to-be-named mobile authentication platform aimed at countering problems like fraud and identity theft should launch commercially later in 2018, with internal trials schedule to start in the next few weeks.
Sprint reveals its first six US cities that will be getting “5G-like capabilities”
Customers in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles will first begin experiencing 5G-like capabilities while Sprint aggressively works to expand the high-speed wireless service to additional markets including Atlanta, Houston and Washington, D.C.
Sprint customers reportedly unable to use Wi-Fi Calling after updating to iOS 11.2
It’s possible that the latest carrier settings broke Wi-Fi Calling for Sprint’s iPhone customers.
Sprint acquires 33 percent stake in Tidal, Jay Z’s Apple Music rival
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint announced Monday that it’s buying one-third of Tidal, Jay Z’s music-streaming service, in a bid to give customers exclusive content not available anywhere else. That’s right, Tidal and its artists will produce exclusive content that will only be available to current and new Sprint customers.
While Sprint now owns 33 percent of Tidal, Jay Z & Co. will continue to run the artist-centric service. Sprint’s CEO Marcelo Claure will join Tidal’s Board of Directors.
Sprint partners up with Pokémon GO to add new Pokéstops and Gyms
Sprint is partnering up with Niantic to increase the amount of Pokéstops and gyms that you can access in Pokémon GO.
The goal of the collaboration is to give players more access points to stock up on Pokémon item necessities and to battle other players for experience and team gym domination, but clearly Sprint gets some positive press out of the deal too.
Sprint’s new tablet-exclusive unlimited plan degrades your video, music and gaming streams
I don’t trust “unlimited” wireless plans because they’re all but unlimited and often come with a bunch of caveats one needs to consider carefully. The latest example: Sprint’s newly announced data plan for tablets which promises unlimited 4G LTE data in exchange for $20 per month. So far so good, but the devil—as always—is in the detail.
If you take a closer look at the fine print, you soon realize that the plan limits video streaming to DVD-like 480p resolution, music streaming quality to 500kbps and your online gaming streams to up to 2Mbps.
