Telecoms

You Have a Week to Claim Up to $7,500 From AT&T Data Breach Settlements

Two breaches impacted millions of former and current AT&T users, unveiling SSNs, texts, and more.

Internet Ece Yildirim Dec 12

MrBeast’s Wackiest Challenge Yet: Launching a Phone Company

The viral star may be dipping his toe in the telecom business.

Culture Lucas Ropek Sep 3

Private Verizon Customer Information Leaks in Chat Transcripts

Verizon customers who normally use the company’s online chat system to sort out issues with their service might want to stop for the time being. A glitch is leaking personal information—addresses, phone numbers, and sometimes accounts numbers—in other customers’ chat windows. Ars Technica discovered the leak on Monday, Nov. 30, and alerted Verizon. As of…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Dec 3

Ajit Pai, Who Abandoned FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps, Urges States to Clean Up His Mess

Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai is urging that states impose caps on the price of intrastate prison phone calls—ones that existed on the federal level until Pai’s FCC abandoned them in court. Per Ars Technica, on Monday Pai sent a letter to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (a group of state utility…

Tech Policy Tom McKay Jul 21

FCC Officially Designates Huawei and ZTE as Threats to U.S. Security

After months of rumblings from the Trump administration claiming the use of Chinese networking equipment posed a risk to the U.S., today the Federal Communications Commission officially designated both Huawei and ZTE as threats to national security. In a statement released today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said, “With today’s Orders, and based on the overwhelming…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Jun 30

T-Mobile, Which Said Sprint Merger Would Create Jobs, Already Laying Off Sprint Employees

T-Mobile insisted that its dreaded $26.5 billion merger with rival Sprint was all about job creation, saying the two companies would have 11,000 more employees by 2024 than they were expected to as separate entities. But now that the deal’s closed, hundreds of former Sprint employees working under the merged brand will be terminated, TechCrunch…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 16

Comcast, T-Mobile, and AT&T Will Wait a Little Longer for Their Money If They Have To

Verizon isn’t the only telecom and ISP to extend its non-cancellation pledgethrough the end of June: Comcast, T-Mobile, and AT&T have all announced that they will be doing the same, continuing to help individuals, families, and small businesses affected by the covid-19 pandemic by waiving late fees and overage charges. As in the case with…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Apr 28

Verizon Is Waiving Overage and Late Fees and Adding Free 15GB of Data During Covid-19 Outbreak

In keeping with the Federal Communications Commission’s recently announced Keep Americans Connected Pledge, Verizon has announced it will waive some fees and add extra high-speed data for wireless and small business customers in response to the ongoing covid-19 outbreak. The company announced Monday that it will waive overage charges, activation fees, and late fees for…

Tech News Catie Keck Mar 24

Trump Approves Bill Barring Rural Telecom Carriers from Relying on Huawei, ZTE Equipment

President Donald Trump signed the so-called “rip and replace” bill Thursday, legislation that effectively cuts off access to U.S. subsidies for companies like Huawei Technologies, ZTE, and any other foreign manufacturer that officials deem a national security risk, per a Reuters report. The Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, which previously breezed through both the…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Mar 12

Congress Approves $1 Billion for Rural Telecoms to “Rip and Replace” Huawei, ZTE Equipment

The Senate unanimously voted Thursday to grant rural telecom carriers a cool $1 billion in funding to help them ditch and replace any existing equipment from Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE. Its official name is the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, but many simply call it the “rip and replace” bill because, well,…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Feb 27

Holy Shit, Reportedly

Today, the New York Times published a galvanizing analysis of the location histories of 12 million cell phones, a stockpile provided to them by sources inside an unnamed location data company that harvests data from mobile apps. This shit is real, man, and we’ve long known that telecoms have been selling our location data to…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Dec 19

FCC Finds Wireless Carriers Wildly Overstate Coverage, Gives Them More Money Anyway

On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission, the ghoulish specter of a disemboweled regulatory body, for a fleeting moment appeared before a House oversight committee as shadow of its former self. It produced: a report! The result of a year-long investigation, FCC field agents exposed mobile carriers’ sham claims of providing coverage to underserved areas; the…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Dec 6

Huawei Reports Healthy Sales Growth Despite U.S. Export Ban

Huawei is reporting healthy sales growth, despite U.S. bans against the Chinese-based tech giant, according to a company statement released on Wednesday. Huawei saw revenue increase 24.4 percent for the last three quarters of the fiscal year, a financial success that is sure to frustrate the U.S. government. The U.S. Commerce Department added Huawei to…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 16

Exposed Files Leak Details on SORM, Russia’s Pervasive Domestic Surveillance System

A California-based security company on Wednesday revealed its researchers had discovered more than 1.7 terabytes of proprietary telecommunications data left publicly online, including hardware specifications for a lawful surveillance device used throughout the Russian Federation. TechCrunch first reported on the exposed files discovered by a data breach hunter working at UpGuard. Among the cache are…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Sep 18

Report: Huawei Could Get 90 More Days to Buy American Parts to Fill Pre-Blacklist Orders

Though U.S. trade sanctions are still in effect, Huawei Technologies will have an additional 90 days to buy from American companies so it can wrap up work with existing customers, according to a Reuters report. The world’s largest telecom gear supplier received a “temporary general license” shortly after the ban that was initially set to…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley Aug 17

Report: All Four Major Mobile Networks in the UK Are Using Huawei 5G Gear

UK telecoms aren’t taking warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies that telecommunications gear produced by Chinese tech giant Huawei could pose a security risk incredibly seriously, at least according to a report from the Observer, which reported on Saturday that all four major carriers in the country are currently or are planning on using Huawei networking…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jul 6

At Least 10 Global Telecom Carriers Hacked in Suspected Chinese Espionage Campaign, Security Firm Says

Hackers believed to have ties to China’s government infiltrated the systems of at least 10 telecommunications companies around the globe, swiping swaths of data on the companies and targeted individuals, according to an investigation by cybersecurity firm Cybereason. Cybereason identified numerous global carriers believed to have been compromised by the scheme, which in at least…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jun 25

Either the CEO of AT&T Staged a Robocall During a Live Interview or No One Is Immune to This Plague

The robocalling problem just keeps getting worse and worse—last year, the Federal Communications Commission ordered telecommunications executives to start doing something about the problem, which one report in January 2019 estimated had exploded to the tune of 26.3 billion robocalls placed to U.S. numbers annually. And not even the people in charge of the nation’s…

Tech Policy Tom McKay Mar 21

Portland Lawmakers Want to Block 5G Rollout, Citing Shaky Health Risks

City officials in Portland, Oregon are preparing a Wednesday vote to oppose the rollout of next-generation 5G networks in the city, Inverse reported on Tuesday. The move, which is supported by Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioners Chloe Eudaly and Amanda Fritz, is motivated in part because of disputes with the federal government over telecommunications rules,…

Tech Policy Tom McKay Mar 13

Report: Ajit Pai’s FCC Touted Broadband Deployment Numbers Based on Asinine Mistake

Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai’s assessment of how rapidly broadband deployment has accelerated across the country may be hot bullshit, Ars Technica reported on Thursday. Specifically, Pai’s continued claims that deregulation has led to more homes getting high-speed internet appear to be contradicted by an analysis of ISP coverage data submitted to the FCC…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 8

Telecoms

You Have a Week to Claim Up to $7,500 From AT&T Data Breach Settlements

MrBeast’s Wackiest Challenge Yet: Launching a Phone Company

Private Verizon Customer Information Leaks in Chat Transcripts

Ajit Pai, Who Abandoned FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps, Urges States to Clean Up His Mess

FCC Officially Designates Huawei and ZTE as Threats to U.S. Security

T-Mobile, Which Said Sprint Merger Would Create Jobs, Already Laying Off Sprint Employees

Comcast, T-Mobile, and AT&T Will Wait a Little Longer for Their Money If They Have To

Verizon Is Waiving Overage and Late Fees and Adding Free 15GB of Data During Covid-19 Outbreak

Trump Approves Bill Barring Rural Telecom Carriers from Relying on Huawei, ZTE Equipment

Congress Approves $1 Billion for Rural Telecoms to “Rip and Replace” Huawei, ZTE Equipment

Holy Shit, Reportedly

FCC Finds Wireless Carriers Wildly Overstate Coverage, Gives Them More Money Anyway

Huawei Reports Healthy Sales Growth Despite U.S. Export Ban

Exposed Files Leak Details on SORM, Russia’s Pervasive Domestic Surveillance System

Report: Huawei Could Get 90 More Days to Buy American Parts to Fill Pre-Blacklist Orders

Report: All Four Major Mobile Networks in the UK Are Using Huawei 5G Gear

At Least 10 Global Telecom Carriers Hacked in Suspected Chinese Espionage Campaign, Security Firm Says

Either the CEO of AT&T Staged a Robocall During a Live Interview or No One Is Immune to This Plague

Portland Lawmakers Want to Block 5G Rollout, Citing Shaky Health Risks

Report: Ajit Pai’s FCC Touted Broadband Deployment Numbers Based on Asinine Mistake

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