Customers of the three major carriers in the country have been dealing with an outage when using international roaming. The problem, as reported by PhoneArena, has already lasted over 24 hours and continues to affect international customers. The users shared their grievances on Reddit, where they revealed their locations. As it turns out, AT&T, T-Mobile, … [read full article]
The major wireless carriers in the country are currently facing a fine from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for illegally selling the location data of its customers without their consent. This marks the end of a 2019 investigation into how carriers disregarded the privacy of its customers. According to the FCC’s investigation, carriers like AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile sold the location data of its customers to aggregators. In turn, these aggregators sold the data to third … [read full article]
In a surprise turn of events, it looks like a group of AT&T and Verizon customers have decided to sue T-Mobile. The group believes that the continued increase of prices brought about by their carriers are impacted by T-Mo’s Sprint acquisition in 2020. As reported by PhoneArena, the group is seeking “declaratory relief” as well as financial compensation brought about by the “precipitous decline in competition” … [read full article]
Last week, Tracfone alerted its customers of a security breach they discovered in their system. Some of the affected customers found themselves on Metro by T-Mobile’s network without their authorization. And today, T-Mobile is shedding more light on the matter. According to Tracfone, they first received complaints of similar incidents around the holidays. This prompted them to release a statement: “We were recently made aware of bad actors gaining … [read full article]
With the aviation industry’s concerns over 5G, T-Mobile President of Technology, Neville Ray, turned to the company’s website to give his input. In the blog post, Ray discloses that T-Mobile does not use C-Band, which is where the concern comes from. The executive also says that T-Mo’s network and customers are not affected by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s concerns. The post reads: “5G smartphones and networks have been in use across the US and globally since … [read full article]
Verizon today announced that it’s going to be making some big changes to its rate plans and the way that it sells phones, and the tweaks are pretty similar to the changes that we’ve become accustomed to at T-Mobile. First up, Verizon is launching four new plans … [read full article]
UPDATE: John Legere has responded to the FCC’s decision, saying that T-Mo is “committed to showing up, playing hard, and being successful at the auction.” You can find his full stream of tweets related to the … [read full article]
Ok, if you had the chance to sit down one-on-one with T-Mobile CEO John Legere, you might ask for better phones, (even) cheaper rate, improved service or something else you want T-Mobile to do better. Still, if you’re a social media junkie like me you might recognize that Legere has quickly become the most interesting and active wireless executives in recent memory. With the … [read full article]
According to data from at least one research firm, T-Mobile’s rebranding as the “Un-carrier” is working and working well. Research firm YouGov found for the first time since it began tracking this type of data one year ago, that smartphone users are more likely to switch to T-Mobile than Verizon. YouGov’s “BrandIndex Buzz score” shows that T-Mobile has surpassed Verizon at least twice … [read full article]
In a move that will have T-Mobile customers screaming “we had it first,” Verizon Wireless looks set to introduce “VZ Edge,” their own early upgrade plan for customers. In simple terms, Verizon will allow customers to upgrade their devices more often to “stay on the leading edge of technology.” The boys at Droid-Life got their hands on a slide right out of a … [read full article]
