Internet speeds are about to get way faster in many U.S. cities.
AT&T announced on Wednesday the first locations that will receive its new mobile 5G network. The company says a dozen cities will receive the new, lightning-fast internet including …
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T-Mobile finally beats Verizon to become fastest 4G LTE network in U.S.
T-Mobile has been crowned the top wireless network in the U.S., according to OpenSignal’s “2018 State of Mobile Networks” report.
The “uncarrier” blew past Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint in five out of six major metric tests, besting the competition o…
Trump struck net neutrality down — and kickstarted the movement that will save it
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It’s just over a month since the GOP-controlled Federal Communications Commission voted to gut its net neutrality rules. But if Donald Trump and his hand-picked FCC Chief Ajit Pai thought they’d settled the matter, it’s now becoming clear that what they’ve actually done is the exact opposite.
As Obi-Wan Kenobi might have told them: strike down net neutrality, and it will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Right now, the war to save the open internet has all the political energy. It’s being fought on multiple fronts: in the Senate, in courts, in states, in cities, and on late-night TV — not to mention in our homes. Read more…
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View More Trump struck net neutrality down — and kickstarted the movement that will save itAT&T’s new ‘smart city’ sensors will monitor bridges to make sure they’re safe
AT&T is hooking bridges up to the Internet of Things.
At CES, AT&T announced that it’s testing a new “structure monitoring solution,” a system of sensors to help cities, states, and private transportation companies monitor the stability…
T-Mobile CEO is still blathering about 5G in 2020
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T-Mobile CEO John Legere has never been known to remain quiet. As New Year’s Eve approaches, it’s been no different.
In an annual memo posted to the T-Mobile blog, Mr. Legere offers up his raw opinions on the passing year and includes several predictions about the future.
The biggest takeaway: Legere is excited about T-Mobile’s 5G internet development. “One of the most under-reported stories for 2017 is the 600 MHz auction,” he says in the post, referring to the FCC’s spectrum auction in April.
“While [Verizon and AT&T] focus on 5G hotspots that won’t work when you leave your home, we will be the only ones on the fast-track toward a real, mobile nationwide 5G network in 2020 – and have already started deploying 5G ready equipment,” he says. Read more…
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View More T-Mobile CEO is still blathering about 5G in 2020A very special thank you to Donald Trump for this AT&T/Time Warner fiasco
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President Donald Trump has done something that no other president has done before—and many journalists have tried and failed to do.
He turned a boring media merger into the corporate version of a soap opera. He made it interesting.
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it will be filing a lawsuit to block AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. It’s just the most recent in a bizarre series of developments around what is a massively important move in the media world.
Importance, however, doesn’t mean public interest. Apart from the initial announcement, these kinds of deals tend to be pretty boring. Stories about antitrust, for example, aren’t exactly on most people’s must-read list. But they should be, assuming you like to watch HBO, use a smartphone to do just about anything, see movies, or read the news. Read more…
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View More A very special thank you to Donald Trump for this AT&T/Time Warner fiascoDonald Trump denies he’s using the AT&T-Time Warner merger to get revenge on CNN
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President Donald Trump was always against a merger between AT&T and Time Warner, and he’s always hated CNN. So the appearance that he was using his position to force Time Warner to ditch CNN to close the $85 billion deal made a strange, vindictive kind of sense.
Now, however, Trump is denying any attempts to exact revenge on his cable news nemesis.
Trump said he “didn’t make that decision. That was made by a man who is actually a very respected person, a very, very respected person,” Variety reported. Trump made the comments—likely about Justice Department antitrust chief Makan Delrahim—during his trip through Asia. Read more…
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View More Donald Trump denies he’s using the AT&T-Time Warner merger to get revenge on CNNCNN might have to be sold for the AT&T/Time Warner deal to go through
When AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner for $85 billion, the deal immediately encountered skepticism.
These kinds of mega mergers tend to face a lot of government scrutiny. Even if they’re approved, they usually come with strings attached.
On W…
Major internet outage hits the U.S.
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No, it’s not just you.
Large swaths of the United States are currently experiencing internet connection problems with several major ISPs apparently affected. Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T all appear to be having issues, with Comcast blaming the outage on an “external network issue.”
This outage falls just after the one-year anniversary of a major DDOS attack on Dyn that crippled the internet for a day in October of 2016.
Looks like it’s impacting multiple major telecom providers, not just #Comcast, including #Verizon, #ATT, and #Spectrum pic.twitter.com/ApSAvvRunm
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AT&T will open AI marketplace to the public next year
Thanks to AT&T, you may soon be able to build your own AI-powered app.
The Acumos “AI Marketplace,” launched with open-source nonprofit the Linux Foundation, is currently open for “initial access” to companies who pay a registration fee. Th…