How to get $500 off a brand-new Galaxy S9
Pre-orders for the Galaxy S9 open at midnight, and if you’re balking at the $800 price, I have some good news for you. Sprint and …
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Don’t believe a word AT&T says about net neutrality
Yesterday, net neutrality advocates from across the internet teamed up for a day of action to promote a fair and open internet. AT&T, one of …
AT&T is killing its iPhone X BOGO deal, unless you live in LA
Earlier today, AT&T sent out a press release announcing a series of regional offers — free DirecTV Now for NYC residents, free home internet for …
AT&T didn’t waste any time abandoning net neutrality
The body isn’t even cold yet, but AT&T is wasting no time in rolling out new “features” that fly in the face of net neutrality. …
These 3 cities will be the first to get real 5G
According to everything we’ve heard, 2018 will be the year that 5G stops being a distantly-whispered myth and starts becoming reality. The standards for 5G …
EFF slams AT&T, says company’s Internet Bill of Rights is ‘hypocritical arrogance’
Internet service providers might have won the battle within the FCC to strike down net neutrality rules, but it came at the cost of public …
Hosting the Super Bowl supercharges a city’s network for years to come
Cities will compete to host the Super Bowl, in some cases using public money to fund a brand-new stadium in hopes of attracting the NFL. …
Cord-cutter streaming services are off to a flying start, but how long can they last?
2017 was the year that live TV streaming services came out of the nerd corner and truly became mainstream. AT&T’s DirecTV Now, Hulu’s Live TV, …
T-Mobile has finally pulled ahead of Verizon in the fastest network competition
T-Mobile has been on an upward trajectory for years now, but based on a new report from OpenSignal, it appears that the carrier might not …
Study claims AT&T and Verizon are ‘still feeling the pain of unlimited’
AT&T and Verizon both introduced Unlimited plans early in 2017, thanks to pressure from T-Mobile and Sprint. The move made sense to prevent a customer …
This is how Sprint is planning to improve its cell service next year
It’s no secret that Sprint’s network is the worst of the big four carriers right now. Despite recent improvements to service, especially speeds in urban …
Huawei’s CEO is really annoyed he can’t sell phones through US carriers
AT&T was supposed to announce a partnership to carry some of Huawei’s hottest Android phones, but the deal was dropped at the last minute, according …
Sprint customers are about to get a very unpleasant bill hike
Existing Sprint customers who signed up under two long-running deals are about to get a very unpleasant new years’ price increase. The “Unlimited freedom” and …
AT&T just dumped Huawei’s flagship, and that’s a big break for Samsung’s Galaxy S9
For years, there’s been a big hole missing in the US Android phone market. Samsung is the undisputed champion, and the only company making any …
AT&T will launch its 5G network this year, but we still don’t know how fast it’ll be
AT&T on Thursday morning announced its intention to be the first wireless carrier in the United States to deploy a 5G network in a dozen …
DirecTV Now users complain of holiday outages as the service keeps growing
DirecTV Now, AT&T’s shiny new internet streaming service, has had a quietly good first year. The platform rebounded well from some launch problems late last …
AT&T will give bonuses to 200,000 workers to celebrate tax cut
AT&T has been one of the most vocal proponents of President Trump’s new tax bill, so it makes sense that it didn’t waste any time …
Cable prices are soaring as millions of customers jump ship
Traditional pay TV — cable and satellite — is in a bad place. Every three months we get a new record for the number of …
Can T-Mobile actually fix cable?
T-Mobile announced this morning that it’s bought out TV tech company Layer3, with the intention of launching an-new cable service sometime next year. It’s a …
Live streaming TV is going to destroy cable, not save it
Streaming TV has had a stellar year. DirecTV Now, AT&T’s cord-cutting cable alternative, has signed up a million people thanks to some aggressive promotions, and …
People are ditching cable at record speed, so of course AT&T is hiking prices
2017 has been a standout year for cord-cutting. In July, August, and September, cord-cutters set a new record for ditching traditional pay-TV, with an estimated …
AT&T is giving away Apple TVs if you get four months of DirecTV Now
AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming cable alternative has been doing remarkably well since it launched a year ago. In large part, that’s probably due to some …
AT&T and Verizon still the best networks for highway travel
Testing wireless networks is an imperfect science, at best. Different studies with wildly different methodologies routinely crown different networks as the Best Network ever, based …
The best Black Friday smartphone deals from Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint
With Black Friday oh-so-very-nearly here, we’ve now got all the deals from the big four carriers locked down. Black Friday 2017 is looking to be …
The Department of Justice is suing to stop the AT&T/Time Warner merger
The Department of Justice has filed a suit to prevent the AT&T/Time Warner merger from going through, AT&T confirmed in a press release issued today. …
AT&T is seriously thirsty for Trump’s tax cuts
Trump’s tax plan, we’re told, is going to cause a boom in jobs like we’ve never seen. With the money corporations will save from having …
AT&T network outage: How to make phone calls when LTE is down
Late last night, AT&T suffered a nationwide network outage that made it impossible for subscribers to make calls. This resulted in thousands of complaints on …
T-Mobile is deploying gigabit LTE technology to fight Verizon and AT&T
T-Mobile has made remarkable strides in the last three years. Back in 2014, its network languished almost depressingly far behind Verizon and AT&T, and consumers …
Trump’s DoJ wants AT&T to sell CNN to secure Time Warner deal
According to reports from the New York Times, Financial Times, and Recode, the Department of Justice is asking AT&T to sell Turner, the broadcast TV arm of Time …
Smartphones are getting more expensive, but LTE speeds are actually slowing down
Welcome to the era of $1,000+ smartphones. It was only a matter of time until it arrived, of course, and that time arrived earlier this …
