Tag Archives: Verizon

Senator Presses AT&T and Verizon to Prove They’re Safe After Massive Hack

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A major telecom breach that rattled the industry last year is once again making waves in Washington. Senator Maria Cantwell is now demanding answers from AT&T and Verizon (two of the biggest players in the U.S. telecom market) after a sweeping cyberattack raised questions about how secure our networks really are. As reported by The Verge, Sen. Cantwell has asked cybersecurity firm Mandiant to … [read full article]

Kansas City Faces Week‑Long Outage on T‑Mobile, AT&T & Verizon

If you’ve been unable to make calls, send texts, or process card payments around Kansas City recently, you’re not imagining it. Residents on T‑Mobile (and reportedly AT&T and Verizon) have been facing nagging outages for nearly a week, with no official explanation in sight. As reported by PhoneArena, users have posted in forums about dropped calls whenever they move out of 5G coverage. The situation appears … [read full article]

T-Mobile Managed to Stop a Cyber Attack in Time

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We’ve long heard of stories of wireless carriers getting hacked and discovering it too late. This time, however, it’s time to give credit where it is due: T-Mobile was able to catch a cyberattack in progress and shut it down before customer records could be accessed.  As reported by Bloomberg, the Un-carrier got to detect suspicious activity. True enough, they caught the cyber criminals before they had … [read full article]

Chinese Cyber Attack Hits U.S. Telecom Firms: T-Mobile, AT&T, and More Compromised

Update (11/27/24 8:18 pm EST): T-Mobile Chief Security Officer, Jeff Simon, released an update regarding the alleged cyber attack. The Un-carrier confirmed that they “detected attempts to infiltrate” the system by bad actors. Fortunately, T-Mobile’s defenses worked as intended and protected “sensitive customer information, prevented any disruption of our services, and stopped the attack from advancing. Bad actors had no access to sensitive customer data (including calls, voicemails or texts).“ You can read the rest of … [read full article]

T-Mobile, Verizon Finally Agree on One Thing

The rivalry among US carriers has always been pretty strong. It’s very rare for instances when these rival companies work together for the same goal. Recently, however, T-Mobile and Verizon seem to be on the same boat as they are hoping the US government will not award additional spectrum to AT&T. And with that, the two are now working together to stop this.  Back in 2017, AT&T decided to build a dedicated network for first responders to … [read full article]

Report: T-Mobile Now Has the Most Prepaid Customers in US Wireless Industry

In a sudden turn of events, T-Mobile is now recognized as the carrier with the most number of prepaid customers. The Un-carrier has surpassed Verizon with this achievement.  Fierce Wireless earlier gave a report comparing the Q3 2023 earnings of the two wireless carriers. T-Mobile reported having 21,595,000 prepaid customers while Verizon had 21,420,000 in the same quarter. Meanwhile, AT&T remains a distant third … [read full article]

T-Mobile can now fix your Apple device even if you’re not a T-Mo customer

Good news to all Apple users! T-Mobile is expanding their in-store repair services. The best part about this is that this service will extend to customers outside of T-Mobile.  As reported by The T-Mo Report, T-Mobile will soon start offering repairs to all Apple customers in their stores with repair services. Even if you’re an AT&T or Verizon customer, you can get … [read full article]

T-Mobile, Verizon customers reported a service outage yesterday

Yesterday, both Verizon and T-Mobile trended on social media for negative reasons. It turned out that there were a number of customers of either carrier who experienced a service outage. Users from either network shared that they are unable to call numbers from rival carriers.  As seen on DownDetector, it looks like the issue first started around 12 pm EST. It then peaked hours later, around 5 pm … [read full article]

T-Mobile denies customers’ rebate claim on Apple Watch Series 7 purchase

T-Mobile seems to be rejecting rebate claims for purchases on the Apple Watch Series 7. According to support emails, T-Mobile says there is no such promotion on the Apple Watch.  But as reported by AppleInsider, the Apple Watch Series 7 pages on Apple US promote a rebate deal from T-Mobile and Verizon. The promotion shares that customers of either carrier can enjoy a $100 rebate … [read full article]