The start of the new year has brought with it more news on the FCC’s 600MHz incentive auction. The reverse part of the FCC’s auction finished recently, and the clearing cost was set at $10 billion for 84 MHz of spectrum. That’s considerably less than it was in the past three stages, which was $86.4 billion in Stage 1, $54.6 billion in Stage 2, and $40.3 billion for Stage 3. Now that … [read full article]
If you decided to make the HTC One A9 your daily driver, HTC has some good news to kickstart your week. The unlocked HTC One A9 will begin receiving its Android 7.0 Nougat update tonight. The news was just announced by HTC’s Mo Versi on Twitter, who confirmed that the update has received technical approval and will soon begin hitting devices. HTC One A9 Unlocked Owners! We have received technical approval on the Nougat OS update, and … [read full article]
A woman who recently had a “bad day” decided to take it out on a T-Mobile store. A video posted online shows a woman driving her SUV into a T-Mobile store in Palm Springs, Fla. Shinobia Montoria Wright is said to have visited the store on Wednesday to exchange her cracked iPhone, then returned the next day and drove her vehicle into the store. It’s said that she then started smashing glass displays with a squeegee … [read full article]
UPDATE: HTC has confirmed to me that VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling on the HTC U Ultra will work on T-Mobile. HTC’s newest hero Android phone is here. The HTC U Ultra debuted today with a high-end spec list and some other notable features. The body of the U Ultra is a bit different from last year’s metal HTC 10, boasting a glass shell that HTC describes as “liquid surface.” Another major feature of the … [read full article]
Days ahead of the presidential inauguration, T-Mobile has announced that it’s beefed up its coverage in Washington, DC. T-Mobile has rolled out new LTE features like 4×4 MIMO and 256 QAM to improve its coverage in DC. Other upgrades made by T-Mo include adding LTE spectrum to cell sites, deploying three carrier aggregation for 30+30 MHz of LTE, adding upgraded equipment like multi-beam antennas, and more than doubling the backhaul on several sites. The LTE capacity … [read full article]
If you’ve treated yourself to an unlocked ZTE Axon 7 Mini in the months since its release, you’ve got a new software update coming your way. ZTE has announced a new update for the Axon 7 Mini in the US that includes some notable improvements. What you’ll get depends on which software build your Axon 7 Mini was on previously. For example, folks that are coming from the B12 build will be getting support for … [read full article]
One day after the movie-centric T-Mobile Tuesdays, T-Mo has revealed what it has in store for next week. The January 17 edition of T-Mobile Tuesdays will include a free FandangoNOW rental up to $5 and $10 off two Lyft rides, the latter of which is good through Wednesday. New Lyft users can get $10 off an additional ride between Friday and Sunday. T-Mobile is also partnering with Express to offer $20 off any purchase of … [read full article]
Next week’s T-Mobile Tuesdays gifts and prizes have been revealed, and there’s a big focus on movies. For the January 10 edition of T-Mobile Tuesdays, T-Mo customers can get a free three-month subscription to IndieFlix. This service is focused on independent films, offering more than 8,000 indie comedies, documentaries, dramas, animations, shorts, and classic TV. Also available to T-Mobile customers next Tuesday is a $2 movie ticket from Fandango. This offer is valid on Tuesday … [read full article]
It’s the start of a new year, and just like he has the past couple of years, T-Mobile CEO John Legere has laid out his predictions for the coming 12 months. Legere’s first prediction for 2017 is that cable companies will try to enter wireless through MVNO deals, but that they’ll fail. Legere adds that because of this, T-Mobile will not get into any MVNO deals with cable companies. Cable companies are the only … [read full article]
Following today’s Un-carrier Next announcement, T-Mobile CEO John Legere took some questions from the media. And unsurprisingly, a question about Sprint came up. Legere was asked about the possibilities of a merger with SoftBank and Sprint with President Donald Trump and a new FCC. According to The Verge, T-Mobile’s CEO didn’t come out and say definitively yes or no to a T-Mobile-Sprint merger, but he did say that it was a possible outcome under the new administration. … [read full article]
Un-carrier Next is official. T-Mobile CEO John Legere today took to the CES 2017 stage to reveal the next Un-carrier move, which includes three main points. First up, T-Mobile wants to help simplify your bill by building taxes and fees into the price that it advertises for its plans. As an example, the T-Mobile One plan with a single line will cost $70 flat, rather than $70 plus additional taxes and fees added to your bill. … [read full article]
Ahead of today’s Un-carrier Next announcement, T-Mobile today shared a preview of its Q4 2016 results. T-Mobile says that in Q4 2016, it added 2.1 million customers, including 1.2 million postpaid net adds. Of that 1.2 million, 933,000 were phones. This marks the 15th straight quarter that T-Mo has added more than 1 million customers. For the full year of 2016, T-Mobile added 8.2 million total customers. That includes 4.1 million postpaid customers and 2.5 … [read full article]
