OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren owners, there’s a new update coming your way. T-Mobile is now pushing a OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren update that bumps the phone to version 10.0.36.HD61CB. The changelog for the update is short, mentioning only the June 2020 Android security patches. Even though this is a fairly small update, it’s good to have the latest security patches that are available to … [read full article]
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said that he planned to investigate T-Mobile’s recent network outage, which he called “unacceptable”, and now the FCC wants to hear from you about what happened. The FCC is now seeking comments from the public on the T-Mobile outage that happened on June 15. Specifically, the agency wants to know things like how T-Mo customers learned about the outage, if T-Mobile’s … [read full article]
Getting approval for their merger from the California Public Utilities Commission was one of the last hurdles T-Mobile and Sprint had to clear for their deal to get done earlier this year. The CPUC did eventually green light the deal with several conditions attached, but now T-Mo wants some of those requirements to be eased up. Today T-Mobile sent a letter to the CPUC … [read full article]
One day after rolling out updates to the Galaxy Note 10 series, T-Mobile has begun updating another group of Samsung flagships. The Samsung Galaxy S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra are all being updated by T-Mobile today. The S20’s update is version G981USQU1ATF9 while the S20+’s is version G986USQU1ATF9 and the S20 … [read full article]
One month after T-Mobile last pushed an update to its OnePlus 8 5G, another update has begun rolling out. T-Mobile’s OnePlus 8 5G is now being updated to version 10.5.10.IN55CB. This is a smaller update than the one that was released last month, with the only item on the changelog being the June 2020 Android security patches. … [read full article]
Neville Ray appeared on a Wells Fargo Virtual 5G Forum this week took the opportunity to talk a bit about T-Mobile’s network. First up, T-Mobile’s president of technology unsurprisingly touched a bit more on the major outage that T-Mo suffered this week. Ray reaffirmed that it was triggered by a fiber outage that then was compounted by a couple other issues, resulting in capacity issues in the … [read full article]
T-Mobile has launched 3 generations of own-brand REVVL phones to date, and new regulatory filings suggest that a 4th generation is in the works. A Bluetooth SIG filing has revealed that TCL is making a device called the “REVVL 4+”. There aren’t a ton of details about the REVVL 4+ revealed in the filing, but the device is listed as being an “LTE / UMTS / GSM mobile phone” with Bluetooth 5.0. There’s also an FCC filing … [read full article]
Following recent rumors that suggested that Dish Network may have been trying to negotiate better terms for itself in its purchase of Boost Mobile from T-Mobile, it’s been revealed that the deal will finally happen in two weeks. Dish Network and T-Mobile have confirmed in filings with the SEC that Dish will close its purchase of Sprint’s prepaid businesses, including Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile, … [read full article]
Another T-Mobile executive will soon exit the company. T-Mobile confirmed today that CFO Braxton Carter will retire on July 1, 2020. He won’t be completely done with T-Mo after that date, though, because he’ll be sticking with T-Mobile in a strategic advisory role for 3 months to ensure the transition to his successor goes smoothly. T-Mo then has the option to keep him … [read full article]
Yesterday T-Mobile suffered a pretty serious network outage, and now the carrier has shed a bit more light on exactly what happened. Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s president of technology, explains that the event that triggered the outage was a leased fiber circuit failure from a third-party provider in the Southeast. That’s the part of the country where we … [read full article]
