T-Mobile and Sprint just got the go ahead from a U.S. district court judge. The merger would combine the country’s third and fourth largest mobile carriers, effectively reducing the number of key carriers from four down to three. Following months of delays and push back from high-profile authorities, a US district judge has ruled in […]
T-Mobile and Sprint are rolling out number-verification to customers across both networks. Using the STIR/SHAKEN standards recommended by the FCC, the carriers hope to better fight robocalls. Ideally, this will make it harder for spammers to spoof numbers and give customers more confidence that the number calling them has not been ripped off by a […]
Sprint has launched an affordable screen repair program for Samsung Galaxy phones, and it doesn’t even matter if you’re a subscriber. The company will fix cracked screens on eligible devices for $49 until February 9th, 2020 “no matter who your carrier is,” according to the program’s website. While it doesn’t cover Samsung’s latest flagship devices […]
Sprint is shutting down Virgin Mobile service and will transfer all customers to Boost Mobile starting the week of February 2nd. You’ll keep your phone and number in “most instances,” and will move to a “comparable or better” plan at no additional charge. Your mobile broadband device won’t carry over, though, and you’ll have to […]
All four major US carriers AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint have each issued the same joint press release announcing the formation of “a joint venture” called the “Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative” (CCMI). It’s designed to ensure that the carriers move forward together to replace SMS with a next-generation messaging standard including a promise to launch a […]
Colorado is the second state to drop its lawsuit to stop the $26.5 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. It’s the latest news in the ongoing merger saga between T-Mobile and Sprint, a deal announced more than a year ago, to help the companies combat wireless heavyweights AT&T and Verizon. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office […]
Sprint this morning officially lit up four new 5G markets — New York City, Washington D.C., Phoenix and Los Angeles — bringing Sprint’s total to nine. When you include its original 5G markets in Texas, Illinois and Kansas, that brings the carrier’s total coverage area up to about 2,100 square miles, where some 11 million […]
The United States Justice Department has approved the $26 billion merger deal between T-Mobile and Sprint. After over a year in regulatory limbo, the merger received the green light from the last federal agency to hold out, with the Federal Communications Commission already signaling that it will approve the deal. The companies will have to […]
Sprint is in the process of informing customers about a security breach that occurred last month. In a letter to affected customers, Sprint said it learned of the unauthorized access on June 22, 2019. According to the nation’s fourth largest wireless carrier, hackers gained access through the “add a line” portal on Samsung’s website. Potentially […]
The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile sold phone location data that ended up with bounty hunters, and The New York Times covered an instance of Verizon selling data. On Thursday, lawyers filed lawsuits against four of the US major telecommunications companies for their role in various location data scandals […]