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The FCC Is Investigating Cell Carriers' Wireless Coverage Maps
Smaller companies say big carrier wireless claims of uninterrupted, nationwide coverage are a “sham.”
Researchers Believe Sprint Is Throttling Skype Without Telling Consumers
Sprint denies the claims but the researchers have run nearly 2,000 tests since the beginning of the year.
The Cybersecurity World Is Debating WTF Is Going on With Bloomberg’s Chinese Microchip Stories
No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek's bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.
How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards
Sources who work for some of America’s major cellphone carriers tell us how criminals are trying to recruit them to help find new targets.
The SIM Hijackers
Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames. Their victims' weakness? Phone numbers.
T-Mobile CEO Tells Congress That Reducing Competition Will Increase Competition
T-Mobile and Sprint are trying to merge, which would make three major cell phone providers instead of four.
Bail Bond Company Let Bounty Hunters Track Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Phones for $7.50
Low-level enforcement were able to monitor phones nationwide with minimal legal oversight. But the predatory bail bonds industry provided a similar, and cheap, service to bounty hunters to track down individuals.
Cops Can Find the Location of Any Phone in the Country in Seconds, and a Senator Wants to Know Why
Here are the letters Senator Ron Wyden sent to mobile carriers and the FCC demanding answers and action on the recently highlighted law enforcement service to easily track phones across the country.
The ‘Race to 5G’ Is Just Mindless Marketing Bullshit
Buried beneath the hype around 5G rests a growing sense that wireless carriers are aggressively over-selling the technology’s potential.
The T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Be Terrible For Consumers
Eliminate one of four carriers and the incentive to compete on price is reduced proportionally. Of course, T-Mobile and Sprint executives spent most of the weekend trying to claim the exact opposite.
Why Sprint Buying a Chunk of Tidal Scares Net Neutrality Advocates
The specter of zero-rating looms over Sprint now owning one-third of Jay-Z's streaming music service.
America’s 4G Carriers Are Bracing Themselves For Trump Inauguration Livestreams
Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint have all geared up for Friday’s streaming frenzy.