Dish buys Ting Mobile to expand its wireless business

Posted on 03/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Dish is adding another piece to its small but growing wireless business. On Monday, the company announced a deal to acquire the customer base of mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Ting Mobile from Tucows. As part of the agreement, the latter will...

AT&T says its 5G network is now available ‘nationwide’

Posted on 23/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

AT&T has hit a milestone in its 5G network rollout. As of this morning, the carrier says that its network is officially available nationwide — by the FCC’s guidelines, that means it’s available to more than 200 million people in the US. Specifica...

T-Mobile’s ‘Scam Shield’ offers free caller ID and spam call blocking features

Posted on 16/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

T-Mobile completed its purchase of Sprint earlier this year, and with those regulatory hurdles out of the way the company is once again announcing some new features for its expanded customer base. The focus is on spam and robocalls, something that T-...

T-Mobile opens Home Internet signups in Michigan

Posted on 09/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

T-Mobile’s Home Internet pilot has expanded in the greater Grand Rapids area, giving people in Kent, Muskegon and Ottawa counties the option to switch to its $50-a-month service. The carrier’s Home Internet product started as an invite-only trial for...

Dish buys prepaid carrier Boost Mobile for $1.4 billion

Posted on 01/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

After nearly a decade of trying to break into the wireless market, Dish just became the newest national wireless carrier. Today, Dish announced the $1.4 billion acquisition of Boost Mobile. With this purchase, Dish secures its place in the retail wir...

T-Mobile asks California to soften 5G, job conditions for Sprint merger

Posted on 23/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

T-Mobile is hoping to ease some of the conditions it agreed to for its merger with Sprint. The carrier has asked California’s Public Utilities Commission to roll back three main requirements. It wants the CPUC to delay 5G coverage and speed targets f...

Google Voice and Google Fi finally work with the same account

Posted on 22/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google Voice and Google Fi have effectively been enemies for years — you could have a virtual phone number or aggressively-priced cellphone service, but not both on one account. At last, though, you won’t have to choose one over the other. Google now...

AT&T is laying off thousands of workers and closing 250 stores

Posted on 17/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

AT&T will lay off more than 3,400 technicians and clerical workers, along with managers and executives, according to the Communications Workers of America union, which represents some employees. The company confirmed it would make cuts, but didn’...

T-Mobile offers an explanation for its twelve-hour outage on Monday

Posted on 17/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

On Monday T-Mobile’s voice and text messaging services were down all evening, with the outage stretching for over twelve hours. Now, its President of Technology Neville Ray has given some explanations of what happened and what the company says it’s d...

T-Mobile reportedly plans to lay off hundreds of former Sprint employees

Posted on 16/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Two months after completing its $26 billion merger with Sprint, T-Mobile plans to lay off a portion of the workers that came to it through the acquisition. According to TechCrunch, T-Mobile vice-president James Kirby told approximately 400 former Spr...

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