Category: 5G
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T-Mobile Adds 509,000 5G Home Customers As Growth Cools
T-Mobile boasted a strong quarter of wireless customer growth, even as the pace of expansion in its 5G home internet business slowed, as it swung to a big profit. The wireless carrier said that in the fiscal second quarter, it added a net new 1.7 million customers, and 760,000 post-paid phone subscribers, or customers who…
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Is Amazon Prime’s Boost Infinite Deal a Good Deal?
Amazon is getting into the wireless game – sort of. The online retail giant has partnered with Boost prepaid mobile service to offer a special deal to its Prime subscribers that offers a modest bit of savings. Amazon has flirted with the mobile business for years, from offering its own failed Fire phone to selling…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5, Flip 5 Are A Cord Cutters Dream
Foldables phones like Samsung’s Galaxy Z line, with flexible displays that fold out larger or fold in to shrink down, have long been touted as ideal devices for cord cutters looking to watch everything from TikTok videos to Stranger Things. But hesitancy to buy one of these flashy devices stem from everything including price to…
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T-Mobile Rolls Out Big 5G Speed Boost — if You Have the Right Phone
T-Mobile’s 5G network is about to get a lot faster — for some customers who happen to have a certain Samsung phone. The wireless carrier said on Tuesday that it is rolling out so-called four-carrier aggregation — jargon for bundling different bands of airwaves together for a larger pipe to enable higher 5G data speeds…
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Verizon’s 5G Home Internet Plan Will Reportedly Be Going Up In Price
Verizon is increasing wireless home internet prices again. The company will soon charge an extra $10 for wireless home internet according to Yahoo! Finance, the second price increase in two years. Sometime this summer, Verizon wireless internet will start costing $35 a month including the autopay and paperless billing discounts. Update: Verizon has sent Cord…
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T-Mobile & Verizon Pose a Real Threat to Comcast & Spectrum’s Internet Business As Cord Cutting 2.0 Grows
While Comcast has a massive footprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are making head waves in becoming the company’s top competition. Both T-Mobile and Verizon have developed and deployed fixed wireless access (FWA) 5G hardware to expand their reach across the country, giving Comcast a run for its money regarding keeping customers happy and renewing contracts. “FWA…
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Verizon Expands Its 5G Ultra Wideband Network
Kentucky is getting more 5G coverage as Verizon expands its network throughout the state, accompanied by more reliable connections and high-speed internet using up to 100 MHz of Verizon’s C-band spectrum. Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband is fast enough to stream videos in HD, play video games as well as have crisp and uninterrupted video chats…
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Mint Mobile Changes Advertisements After AT&T Challenges Unlimited Claims
Mint Mobile runs ads offering unlimited prepaid data plans, although that doesn’t appear to be the case when looking at the semantics of its packages. The National Advertising Review Board recently denied the company’s appeal to continue using “Unlimited” in Mint Mobile advertisements. The challenge to the “Unlimited” and “UNLTD” wording was brought forth by…
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T-Mobile Takes First Place Overall in Speed Tests
T-Mobile announces the “UnCarrier” has outperformed its competitors in an overall 5G performance test run by Ookla, a company providing network intelligence and connectivity insights. “The network we’ve built stands as a testament to T-Mobile’s unwavering dedication to our goal of providing customers with the best experience possible,” said Ulf Ewaldsson, President of Technology at…
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Verizon Named J.D. Power’s Top-Rated Mobile Carrier For Overall Quality
A new study released by J.D. Power titled the 2023 U.S. Wireless Network Quality Performance Study Volume 2 rated mobile carriers on their overall call quality and reliability factors, naming Verizon the best of the bunch. From January through June of this year, the study evaluated 26,215 wireless customers in six different regions, looking at…