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T-Mobile Joins New Cybersecurity Alliance With AT&T, Verizon, and Other Major Providers

Eight major U.S. communications companies are teaming up on cybersecurity. T-Mobile, AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, Verizon, and Zayo have formed the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or C2 ISAC, a new nonprofit focused on helping the industry share threat information faster and respond to cyber risks more effectively. T-Mobile announced that the group was created as cyber threats become more complex and move faster, especially with the rise of artificial intelligence. The … [read full article]

T‑Mobile Powers New Business Wireless Service from Comcast and Charter

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T-Mobile, Comcast, and Charter just turned the business wireless market on its head. Both cable giants have struck an exclusive, multi-year agreement to build a new mobile service aimed squarely at corporate clients—using T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network. The offering, branded as Spectrum Mobile for Business and Comcast Business Mobile, is slated to launch in 2026. According to a report by Reuters, Comcast and Charter will operate as mobile virtual network providers (MVNOs), which essentially means they’ll lease … [read full article]

T-Mobile Will Be Leasing Comcast’s Airwaves

Recently, Comcast revealed that it will be selling spectrum to T-Mobile. The information was announced on Comcast’s blog, which details that the deal will be worth up to $3.3 billion.  As shared by Comcast, it will be selling its 600MHz band spectrum since it is “unlikely” to need it. Previously, the cable company planned to build its own 5G network for its Xfinity Mobile brand. The company’s initial plan was to use 600MHz band spectrum and … [read full article]

T-Mobile wants you to “Make Xfinity your Ex”

T-Mobile has a new Home Internet campaign that targets current Xfinity customers. In a bold move, the Un-carrier plans to drive around Comcast’s HQ in Philadelphia for 25 hours straight. The new campaign, called “Make Xfinity your Ex” targets unsatisfied customers to their network by offering them up to $750 to break from their existing contract. These customers will also get T-Mobile 5G Home and Business Internet for $25/month with a qualifying voice line for a limited … [read full article]

T-Mobile could be considering Comcast merger, internal report suggests

During his testimony in the T-Mobile-Sprint merger trial, T-Mo CEO John Legere revealed that T-Mobile nearly merged with Dish Network back in 2015. Now documents show that the company could be considering a merger with Comcast. A 2015 report called “Defining a Winning Position for the US Business Model” has been made public as part of the T-Mobile-Sprint merger trial. It was put together at the request of Thorsten Langheim, T-Mobile board of directors member, … [read full article]

T-Mobile teams with Comcast and Inteliquent on first verified call across three networks

After teaming up earlier this year to verify calls made between their networks, T-Mobile and Comcast have partnered up again to protect consumers from spoofers and scammers. T-Mobile, Comcast, and Inteliquent have achieved the first end-to-end STIR/SHAKEN call verification across three networks. Now calls that are routed through Inteliquent and those made directly between T-Mobile and Comcast’s Xfinity Voice landline phone service can be verified as legitimate using the STIR and SHAKEN standards. STIR and SHAKEN … [read full article]

T-Mobile-Sprint merger tidbits: Comcast won’t buy divested spectrum, C Spire supports deal

There have been a lot of leaks, rumors, and speculation surrounding T-Mobile and Sprint’s merger this week, including one report that said that the DOJ wants the two carriers to help create a new, fourth U.S. carrier and a rumor claiming that Amazon may buy Boost Mobile. Now we’re winding down the week with some more tidbits related to the merger. First up, Comcast says that it won’t be buying any spectrum that [read full article]

T-Mobile and Sprint may divest spectrum to get Justice Department’s approval for merger

We’ve heard that T-Mobile and Sprint are hard at work on convincing the Department of Justice to approve their merger, and now we’ve gotten wind of one concession that the two carriers might make. T-Mobile and Sprint are thinking about divesting some of their spectrum to improve the odds of the DOJ approving their merger. That’s according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg, with the latter adding that the divested airwaves would go … [read full article]

T-Mobile partners with Comcast to fight robocalls across networks

T-Mobile continues to combat robocalls today by rolling out cross-network robocalling protection for the first time. T-Mobile and Comcast have teamed up to verify calls made between their networks. The feature is now live for T-Mobile customers and will launch to Comcast Xfinity Voice home phone customers later this year. This feature uses the STIR and SHAKEN standards to verify that incoming calls are actually from who they say they are. STIR and SHAKEN digitally validate … [read full article]

John Legere’s predictions for 2019 include 5G and T-Mobile going ‘beyond mobile’

For the past several years, John Legere has taken time at the end of the year to lay out his predictions for the coming new year. Today he’s done it again, predicting some of the things he thinks we’ll see in 2019. As you might expect from Legere, several of his predictions take shots at T-Mobile’s competition. He suggests that Verizon won’t show a 5G coverage map by the end of 2019 and that AT&T … [read full article]