carriers
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Giz Explains: What It Takes To Restore Mobile Service After A Hurricane
Hurricane Sandy and left an estimated eight million people without power. Plenty more have spotty mobile service — if they have any at all. But why do some people get a signal when others don’t? And what does it take to get a wireless service back online?
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Carriers Receive New Nano-SIM Cards Ahead Of New iPhone Launch
New nano-SIM cards — the next-gen standard in SIM cards that Apple beat Nokia to — have started arriving at carriers ahead of the new iPhone’s expected launch. iFun reports that some nano-SIM cards in Germany came with a message
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We Have Carriers To Thank For Locked Bootloaders, Not OEMs
If there’s one thing the nerd community hates, it’s locked bootloaders. They make installing custom ROMs or second operating systems impossible, and that’s just not cool. But when it comes to phones, we have carriers to thank for restrictions, not just OEMs.
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Steve Jobs Considered Using Wi-Fi To Crush Carriers
According to wireless guru John Stanton, he and Steve Jobs repeatedly discussed the feasibility of creating a “synthetic carrier” over Wi-Fi connections — thereby squeezing out AT&T — between 2005 and 2007.