Networking

[ad_1] T-Mobile’s momentum continued in the fourth quarter as the company reduced churn rates for its existing customer base and delivered 2.4 million net adds in the fourth quarter. The wireless carrier, which calls itself an uncarrier, reported fourth quarter net income of $640 million, or 75 cents a share, ...

[ad_1] TPG has held onto first place in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) broadband speed-monitoring report, delivering 87.3 percent of its maximum plan speeds overall and 86.1 percent during busy hours for downloads in the final quarter of 2018. The National Broadband Network (NBN) speed report saw Aussie ...

[ad_1] Although 5G is being heavily marketed as a new technology, it’s neither particularly new nor a single technology. If mobile technology were a long-running TV series, 5G is a mid-season reboot, with new characters introduced alongside the old, new plot arcs complementing existing storylines, and a publicity drive that ...

[ad_1] Tonga’s two-week period without a working subsea cable to Fiji has ended. The cable had originally fallen over on January 20, and a second fault was subsequently found; however, RadioNZ reported on Saturday that the connection to the main island has been restored. On Friday afternoon, the Tongan government ...

[ad_1] UPDATED: January 2019 Last September, consumers began to see the first service bundles offered by telecommunications companies in their area, marketed with some form of the term “5G.” “5G is here,” declared Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg, specifically for cities such as Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis where rival AT&T had ...

[ad_1] Analogue mobile phones first appeared in the early 1980s, and were used for voice calls only (imagine that!). Second-generation (2G) digital mobiles made their debut a decade later with GSM, offering text messaging (SMS) as the ‘killer application’ on top of voice services, becoming the dominant technology worldwide. A ...

[ad_1] The Super Bowl is fun to watch for some, but if you’re not pumped about the New England Patriots or the Los Angeles Rams, you may be more interested in the big game’s fluffier versions also happening on Sunday: The Puppy Bowl and the Kitten Bowl. Also: Super Bowl LIII: Football ...

[ad_1] Some of us are really excited about a world of human-implantable Internet of Things (IoT). I’m not keen on it. You see, a few years back, in the TV series Homeland, the US Vice President was assassinated by a terrorist who hacked into his heart pacemaker.  Could that really ...

[ad_1] The date for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to make a decision on the merger between TPG and Vodafone Australia has been pushed out from March 28, to potentially April 11. In an update on the merger posted on Tuesday, the consumer watchdog said its decision will ...

[ad_1] The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has put forward a recommendation that consumers should receive automatic compensation when a telecommunications provider misses an appointment or is unable to resolve an outage within a determined timeframe. “Payments for connections and repairs outside the maximum timeframes should be automatic by ...