Slowly but surely, carriers are giving us the tools we need to fight spam calls. Earlier this week, Verizon added a new filter to the Call Filter app to specifically combat neighborhood spoofing calls. These are the phone calls you get from numbers with the same area code and prefix as your own number. Starting …
2020 was a waking nightmare, but if there were any silver linings, one of them might have been the precipitous drop in robocalls and spam calls. According to the software developer YouMail, there were nearly 13 billion fewer robocalls in 2020 than there were in 2019, as even scammers were affected by the pandemic. Unfortunately, …
It is only a matter of time before 5G becomes the industry standard for cellular networks, and Verizon’s doing its part to kickstart the next generation by giving away 5G phones. On Tuesday, Verizon announced a new campaign in which new and existing customers can trade in their old phones for a new 5G phone …
Competition for phone service is as fierce as it has ever been, and with the proliferation of 5G just around the corner, many consumers are going to decide in the next few years whether or not they want to stick with their carriers. Verizon is clearly aware of this because on Monday, the telecom company …
Last month, we told you about how you could get $50 per month from the federal government as part of the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program to help pay for your internet. Sign-ups for the program officially started on May 12th, but as The Washington Post reported earlier this week (via Ars Technica), some internet …
Privacy in recent years has become something of a hot-button issue in the tech world. While some companies like Facebook and Google have ballooned into multi-billion dollar corporations by leveraging what they know about you to serve up targeted advertising, other companies like Apple have made a concerted effort to keep privacy at the forefront …
T-Mobile spent years trying to catch up with Verizon and AT&T, but based on a recent market analysis of carriers by Speedtest Intelligence, the hunter has now become the hunted. According to Speedtest, T-Mobile jumped ahead of AT&T in the first quarter of 2021 to become the fastest mobile carrier in the United States. T-Mobile’s …
As anyone who has had the misfortune of walking into a dead zone can attest, not all cellphone carriers are created equal. Putting aside price as a consideration, different carriers have no shortage of pluses and minuses. One carrier, for example, might have spotty coverage in one part of the country but great coverage everywhere …
Verizon announced on Wednesday a brand new trade-in promo that will let new and existing customers save money on their next 5G phone purchase in a manner that’s not available on other carriers. Verizon says that customers are eligible for up to $1,000 in savings when trading-in a broken phone, which sounds too good to …
Nearly a decade ago, Verizon informed customers that it would be shutting down its 2G and 3G CDMA networks by 2021. At the time, the carrier was still in the process of switching to 4G LTE, but as the 4G rollout continued, Verizon actually pushed up the date for 3G’s demise to 2019. Then 2019 …
