Outages appear to have originated on T-Mobile’s network
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tmobile-outage-verizon-not-working-down-at-and-t-phone-service-problems-network-a9567651.html
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Ms Ocasio-Cortez and a handful of other progressive city council members have called on NYC’s Mayor Bill De Blasio to cut $1bn from the NYPD’s $6bn budget
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasiocortez-aoc-nypd-de-blasio-george-floyd-protest-defund-police-a9553606.html
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American 5G is in a poor state right now, but carriers are making at least some attempt to rectify that situation. AT&T is following up on its mid-December launch of real 5G by adding coverage for six major cities. You should now have lower-ban…Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/27/att-real-5g-six-cities/
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Starting August 5th, Verizon is rolling out a new batch of “Unlimited” plans. But after seeing the names of the company’s new offering and what they include, I feel like Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Source: https://gizmodo.com/verizons-new-unlimited-plans-are-just-screwing-with-us-1836909106
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai signaled that he wanted to reject China Mobile’s application to become a telecom provider in the US, and the agency has just acted on that promise. The Commission has unanimously denied China Mobile’s eight year old bid over na…Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/09/fcc-denies-china-mobile-service-in-us/
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When AT&T announced it was rebranding part of its 4G LTE service as 5G E, or 5G Evolution, everyone knew it was bullshit. AT&T’s service hadn’t magically gotten faster, and all the other carriers cried foul. But only Sprint had the guts to sue AT&T over its misleading claims.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/at-t-and-sprint-settle-5g-e-lawsuit-paving-the-way-for-1834242111
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It’s clearer than ever that police see smartphones as treasure troves of evidence. New York Times sources understand that law enforcement requests for information from Google’s mobile Location History database, known internally as Sensorvault, have…Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/14/surge-in-police-requests-for-mobile-location-data/
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The FCC has announced a spectrum auction and a $20.4 billion rural broadband fund to bolster connectivity across the US. The auction is scheduled to start December 10th, and it will be the largest slice of airwaves the FCC has auctioned for commercia…Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/12/fcc-5g-airwave-auction-rural-broadband-funding/
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In a press conference today in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, the president laid out a number of initiatives focused on helping accelerate the U.S. role in the 5G race.
“This is, to me, the future,” Trump said, opening the press conference flanked by Ajit Pai, Ivanka Trump and a room full of communications representatives in cowboy and hard hats.
“It’s all about 5G now,” Trump told the audience. “We were 4G and everyone was saying we had to get 4G, and then they said before that, ‘we have to get 3G,’ and now we have to get 5G. And 5G’s a big deal and that’s going to be there for a while. And at some point we’ll be talking about number six.”
The apparently off-script moment echoed Trump’s recent call on Twitter for the U.S. to get 6G technology “as soon as possible.” There’s something to be said for the spirit, perhaps, but it’s probably a little soon to be jumping the gun on a technology that doesn’t really exist just yet.
Trump used the opportunity to downplay earlier rumors that the government might be building its own 5G network, instead promoting a free-market method, while taking a shot at the government’s capabilities. “In the United States, our approach is private sector-driven and private sector-led,” he added. “The government doesn’t have to spend lots of money.”
In recent months, however, both the administration and the FCC have been discussing ways to make America more competitive in the race to the soon-to-be-ubiquitous cellular technology. Earlier today, the FCC announced plans to hold the largest spectrum auction in U.S. history, offering up the bands to wireless carriers. The planned auction is set to kick off on December 10.
“To accelerate and incentivize these investments, my administration is freeing up as much wireless spectrum as needed,” Trump added, echoing Pai’s plans.
Earlier today Pai and the FCC also proposed a $20.4 billion fund design to help connect rural areas. The chairman said the commission believes the fund could connect as many as four million small businesses and residences over the course of the next decade.
The focus is understandable, of course. 5G’s value will go far beyond faster smartphones, providing connections for a wide range of IoT and smart technologies and potentially helping power things like robotics and autonomous vehicles. The technology will undeniably be a key economic driver, touching as of yet unseen portions of the U.S. workforce.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/12/trump-fcc-unveil-plan-to-accelerate-5g-rollout/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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Dozens of Indian warships, including an aircraft carrier and nuclear-powered submarines, left a massive maritime exercise and were deployed amid simmering tensions with Pakistan, the Navy has confirmed.
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/454088-india-pakistan-warships-deployment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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The US government might put an end to the controversial NSA phone surveillance program Edward Snowden exposed by the end of 2019. Republican congressional national security adviser Luke Murry revealed during a Lawfare podcast that Congress might not…Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/05/nsa-mass-phone-surveillance-program-end/
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The revelation that Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) throttled California firefighters’ data is prompting new legislation… in Texas. State Representative Bobby Guerra has submitted a bill that would make it illegal for wireless carriers to “imp…Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/09/texas-bill-bans-throttling-in-disaster-areas/
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AT&T has been branding a boosted version of its 4G service as “5G Evolution,” or as it appears on many phones—5G E.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/sprint-sues-at-t-calling-bullshit-on-fake-5g-1832462806
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T-Mobile is still cruising towards a $26 billion merger with Sprint, a deal that would combine the third- and fourth-biggest wireless carriers in the U.S. into one massive company. And after the deal was announced in April 2018, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, T-Mobile executives quickly grew fond of a D.C.…
Source: https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-ceo-john-legere-sure-loves-trumps-hotels-now-1831824996
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T-Mobile has denied an allegation that it lied to the Federal Communications Commission about the extent of its 4G LTE coverage.
A group that represents small rural carriers says that T-Mobile claimed to have 4G LTE coverage in places where it hadn’t yet installed 4G equipment. That would violate FCC rules and potentially prevent small carriers from getting network construction money in unserved areas.
T-Mobile said the allegations made by the Rural Wireless Association (RWA) in an FCC filing on Friday “are patently false.”
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Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/t-mobile-denies-lying-to-fcc-about-size-of-its-4g-network/
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