Google Fi brought a lot of innovations and customer-friendly features to the wireless market. I’d argue that Fi’s biggest innovations have been in network switching. Subscribers using “Designed for Fi” phones can automatically switch between coverage from T-Mobile, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular’s networks. Losing Sprint Fi’s network switching is about to become a lot less […]
Verizon and AT&T both offer discounts on most prepaid plans when subscribers enroll in automatic payments. The carriers have different policies for when discounts kick in. With AT&T, customers can enroll in automatic payments when they first place an order, and the discount for automatic payments kicks in immediately. I like AT&T’s approach. It’s simple. […]
Urban planners have a joke: “You aren’t in traffic; you are traffic.” While most people consider how long they’d have to wait in traffic if they travel, almost no one thinks about how much worse they’d make traffic for everyone else. Conventional tolls charge road users the same rates all the time. Variable-rate tolling is […]
Verizon’s higher-end unlimited plans come with monthly allotments of full-speed 4G hotspot data. Play More Unlimited – 15GB Do More Unlimited – 15GB Get More Unlimited – 30GB Subscribers that burn through all of their full-speed 4G data can continue to use more hotspot data with a 4G connection throttled to a sluggish 600Kbps speed. […]
Earlier this week, Opensignal released a report on the performance of 5G networks in the United States. Opensignal’s report puts some numbers and data behind two things that were already clear: T-Mobile is destroying the competition in terms of 5G coverage, but T-Mobile’s 5G isn’t very fast Verizon’s 5G is outrageously fast, but the coverage […]
Verizon used to offer several different plans with shared pools of data. The carrier has now simplified its offerings with only two shared data plans. Both plans include unlimited minutes and texts. The cheaper plan offers 5GB of shared data. The more expensive plan offers 10GB of shared data. For customers who enroll in paperless […]
A while back, AT&T began calling some its 4G service 5GE. It tricked consumers into thinking they were getting 5G when they weren’t. It was bullshit. Now, AT&T is calling its millimeter wave (mmWave) service 5G+. In some ways, the 5G+ label could confuse consumers. Verizon’s 5G service uses pretty much exclusively mmWave right now. […]
Yesterday, Neville Ray, President of Technology at T-Mobile, shared more information about the cause of T-Mobile’s outage on Monday:
Yesterday, T-Mobile experienced a serious network outage beginning around 10am MT. The outage persisted through most of the day and primarily affected voice and text services. Around 11pm MT, T-Mobile announced that outage was over: What caused the outage? A lot of speculation was floating around yesterday. Some Twitter users, including a congressman, suggested there […]
A major T-Mobile network outage is going on right now. T-Mobile’s outage T-Mobile subscribers scattered around the U.S. have been reporting that calls and texts have been failing over the last few hours. The outage appears to be affecting more than T-Mobile’s direct customers. Subscribers with mobile virtual network operators that run over T-Mobile’s network […]