Tag: AT&T

April 1, 2024

When the massive trove of data was posted for sale on a cybercrime forum early this month, AT&T said it did not originate from its systems, even though the poster said it was stolen from a 2021 breach of the […]

January 16, 2024

The latest Speedtest Intelligence report was released today by Ookla and it showed that T-Mobile was the fastest wireless firm in the U.S. during the fourth quarter of 2023 with a median download speed of 188.96Mbps. That was more than […]

October 4, 2022

Netgear is releasing an unlocked version of its Nighthawk M6 mobile hotspot router designed for use at home or on the go. Like the AT&T version of the M6, this new one supports C-band 5G — but now, it also […]

August 24, 2022

Did you ever wonder why T-Mobile was willing to spend $26 billion to buy Sprint? You didn’t think it was because T-Mobile badly wanted its rivals’ stores, customer list, and operations, did you? Did you? T-Mobile wanted the hoard of […]

June 14, 2022

Equally focused on breaking largely theoretical new 5G ground and delivering practical network upgrades its customers can actually experience in the real world already, T-Mobile has recently managed to extend its lead over the competition in nationwide speed tests while […]

April 25, 2022

While AT&T customers may have to wait until 2023 (at the earliest) for their carrier of choice to start recovering some of the ground lost to Verizon and especially T-Mobile in the 5G speed and availability fields, the battle for […]

March 29, 2022

Have you recently received a text message…from your own phone number? If so, do not click the link you were sent! You obviously didn’t send it to yourself. And your phone carrier, likely Verizon in this case, did not send […]

January 21, 2022

By building a “nationwide” low-band 5G network first and quickly adding a significantly faster mid-band layer on top of that in many places around the country, T-Mobile has managed to gain a massive lead over its arch-rivals in terms of […]

October 14, 2021

There are a lot of big and small mobile analytics and market research firms around that like to regularly evaluate and rank the top three US wireless service providers based on different aspects of the network experience and relying on […]

September 20, 2021

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the slow progress and great struggles of the US 5G networks over the last couple of years, you probably won’t be shocked to hear that Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are not ranked very […]

September 1, 2021

Back in 2017, T-Mobile was the big winner in the FCC’s auction of 600MHz spectrum. The low-band airwaves travel long distances, penetrate structures, but do not deliver blinding fast download data speeds. T-Mobile has used this spectrum to create its […]

April 28, 2021

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the ever-changing US wireless industry for the last few months, you probably already know that T-Mobile has managed to disrupt the market several times since the beginning of this year alone with some […]

February 24, 2021

Hyperbolic use of language that’s not always in line with reality or objectively verifiable might be the oldest trick in the marketing playbook, but the National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs is sure doing everything in its power […]

February 2, 2021

At the moment, the iPhone 12 series sports a record number of 5G bands for every carrier that offers the service around the globe – from Korea to Verizon’s ultrafast mmWave 5G network. To top it all off they are […]

January 27, 2021

Depending on what specific aspects of the general mobile experience you value most and what analytics firm you choose to trust to deliver unbiased and comprehensive network performance measurements, you can objectively view whichever major US carrier you want as […]

January 6, 2021

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past nine months or so, you probably already know that T-Mobile managed to turn life’s (read the pandemic’s) lemons into lemonade, enjoying industry-leading growth primarily as a result of completing its […]

December 15, 2020

If you’ve been following the onslaught of comprehensive reports released by the likes of OpenSignal, RootMetrics, and Ookla over the last year or so analyzing the state and evolution of the US 5G mobile industry, you may have noticed one […]

November 6, 2020

You might recall that AT&T was accused by many of hyping its 5G Evolution network. While it does deliver faster download data speeds than your run-of-the-mill 4G LTE network, 5G Evolution is actually an LTE advanced network using several technological […]

September 21, 2020

There are very few things bitter rivals Verizon and AT&T have historically been able to agree on, but believe it or not, the two cellular giants are essentially banding together against quite possibly the greatest threat their wireless industry duopoly […]

September 18, 2020

AT&T started to sell the slightly improved LG Stylo 5 about one year ago, and even though it’s purely a mid-end device, we had expected the US carrier to provide at least one major Android upgrade. It’s with mild excitement […]