AT&T We have bad news for AT&T customers who always expect to get the fastest 5G speeds. The second-largest carrier in the U.S. will now make you pay extra for the fastest option. On Thursday, AT&T announced its new “Turbo” add-on, which it says will provide “enhanced data connectivity for real-time responsiveness.” What this means … Read more
Millions of current and former AT&T customers’ leaked data, including Social Security numbers, were posted on the dark web earlier this month. The leak prompted a “robust investigation supported by internal and external cybersecurity experts,” the telecommunications giant said Saturday. The compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and included the information of … Read more
About 30 years ago, American Telephone and Telegraph ended its telegraph services. Now AT&T is taking aim at “plain old telephone service.” The Dallas-based telecom giant has applied to the California Public Utilities Commission to be released as the state’s “carrier of last resort,” a designation the company has held since 1996 requiring it to … Read more
AT&T will credit customers a full day of service for the carrier’s more than 10-hour outage on Thursday that affected more than 70,000 users, saying it was the “right thing to do.” “I believe this approach is fully manageable while achieving the 2024 business objectives we have set for ourselves and our stated financial guidance,” … Read more
Chad Morehead/Unsplash An AT&T service outage that impacted a huge number of its customers across the U.S. on Thursday was not caused by a cyber attack, the company’s initial investigation has revealed. Instead, the cellular and internet outage was the fault of work that it was carrying out on its systems, AT&T said in a … Read more
Ericsson Happy Thursday morning! February is drawing to a close, the weather is getting a little bit warmer in parts of the country, and AT&T is experiencing a massive outage that’s affecting its cellular and internet services. It’s a bit of a mess. How many people are without service? When will service be restored? Here’s … Read more
Joe Maring / Digital Trends After a year or two of steady growth in 5G performance among the big three U.S. carriers, things seemed to level off in 2023, with reports showing mostly incremental improvements each quarter. However, it seems that the underdogs took a big leap forward in the last three months of the … Read more
Rivian is best known for its R1T electric truck and R1S electric SUV, but the company also has a commercial side to its business. The company has been building and deploying tons of electric commercial vans for years now — but they’ve only had one customer who has been buying them: Amazon. Amazon is a … Read more
About a decade ago, the Edward Snowden leaks pulled back the curtain on the massive surveillance programs agencies like the NSA were conducting, shocking the world with their sophistication. Around the same time, an accidental discovery happened, revealing the Hemisphere program that allowed US law enforcement to obtain call record information for any phone number … Read more
