Tag: Sprint

August 17, 2021

T-Mobile has confirmed “unauthorized access” to its systems, days after a portion of customer data was listed for sale on a known cybercriminal forum. The U.S. cell giant, which last year completed a $26 billion merger with Sprint, confirmed an […]

September 28, 2020

Verizon and AT&T have agreed to pay a combined $127 million to settle lawsuits alleging that they overcharged California and Nevada government entities for wireless service. The lawsuit was filed in 2012 and resulted in a settlement approved on Thursday […]

January 9, 2019

In June 2018, all four major US wireless carriers pledged to stop selling their mobile customers’ location information to third-party data brokers. The carriers were pressured into making the change after a security problem leaked the real-time location of US […]

August 16, 2018

Mobile phone-related fraud is big business. Fraudsters, hackers, and other bad actors employ creative techniques to compromise networks, hijack user information, and piece together customer identities that are then sold for big bucks on the dark web. To protect its […]

August 1, 2017

Wireless carrier Sprint, which has been publicly on the lookout for merger partners since April, can’t seem to find any takers. Sprint on Friday proposed a full merger with cable giant Charter Communications that would create a media and communications […]

May 12, 2017

Sprint and Windstream sued the Federal Communications Commission this week over a decision that will help AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink charge higher prices for certain business Internet services. The FCC last month voted to eliminate price caps for the so-called […]

February 15, 2017

OpenSignal’s February 2017 “State of Mobile Networks Survey” found that T-Mobile, the so-called “uncarrier,” is giving the incumbent carriers a run for their money. The latest report from OpenSignal measured network performance of the four major U.S. carriers: AT&T, Sprint, […]

November 19, 2015

Sprint’s struggle to compete against Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile US could be your gain. The fourth-place mobile carrier is giving big discounts to customers who switch from the top three carriers. From this Friday until January 7, 2016, customers […]

July 10, 2015

T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Thursday shared preliminary results showing that 2.1 million customers were added in the second quarter of 2015. As a result, he predicted T-Mobile will displace Sprint as the nation’s third-largest carrier, bumping Sprint to fourth. […]

June 30, 2015

A carrier technology that uses Wi-Fi frequencies to provide LTE connectivity could let the big wireless providers mess with your home connection and push you on to their networks, according to comments filed today with the FCC by several watchdog […]

March 30, 2015

Sprint plans to add more than 540 jobs and 115 stores in the Chicago area along with its first LTE-Advanced upgrade in the nation. LTE Advanced has the potential of delivering 100 Mbps wireless download speeds. The impact on the […]