carriers
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AT&T’s 4G LTE Won’t Match Verizon’s For 2-3 Years
More from AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, who’s probably getting the most intense grilling of anybody interviewed at D9. Asked when AT&T’s network will match Verizon’s, De la Vega replies they’ll be indistinguishable in two to three years.
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Verizon’s LTE Services Goes Down For The First Time
It’s been several hours according to Verizon Wireless customers (some of whom work for your favourite tech site), but Verizon’s LTE service shows no sign of going back up. All over the US there have been confirmed outages, with some also reporting their 3G network is down also.
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6 Months Of Tracking Someone’s Mobile Phone, Visualised
How much information does a phone company collect on you? Given that they know which tower your phone pings every time you use it, try “all of it”. That’s what one German politician discovered when he sued his carrier, Deutsche Telekom, for all of the data they’d archived for six months of his mobile phone…
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How The Cloak-And-Dagger AT&T-Mobile Deal Went Down
A $US39 billion deal that would create the biggest wireless carrier in the US; it’s hard to imagine keeping that kind of fiasco a secret. But AT&T had to, otherwise opposition would start before the ink was even dry – even for the biggest corporate donor in Washington. Here’s how it went down. [WSJ]