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5G is here! Well, it's almost here

Jan 14, 2019
Well... OK, it'll be here any day now.
Visitors walk past a 5G logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
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You have more choices for wireless than you might think

Jun 20, 2018
Here's how mobile virtual network operators work.
T-Mobile owns the mobile virtual network operator MetroPCS.
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The largest data breach in history was bigger than we thought

Oct 5, 2017
All Yahoo accounts created before 2013 have been hacked.
The Yahoo logo is displayed in front of the Yahoo headquarters on July 2012 in Sunnyvale, California.
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As AT&T issues results, strategy is key to future

Oct 22, 2015
AT&T and rival Verizon have different approaches to winning younger audience.

Comcast targets big business

Sep 17, 2015
The cable TV company is entering a market where others have a big presence.

Verizon and AT&T to issue transparency reports

Dec 26, 2013
Big telecom is following in the footsteps of some tech giants.

Verizon and FCC set to battle over net neutrality

Sep 9, 2013
The case could impact our broadband Internet access.

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Is Verizon to blame for slow Netflix service?

Jun 20, 2013
People who get their Internet from Verizon have reported having trouble with Netflix. It has to do with something called 'peering' -- and it seems Verizon hasn't been to friendly to its peers of late.

Text vs. phone data: Which is more valuable to the government?

Jun 7, 2013
Government tracking of Verizon telephone records raises the question of just how valuable phone information really is. Would it be more useful to track text message records?

Facebook's Photo Sync, Verizon's new patent, and the government's Death Star

Dec 5, 2012
Facebook would like to become that set of shoeboxes in the attic: A place to store all your photographs, even ones you have no intention of sharing with any of your friends. It's called Photo Sync, and Google-Plus already has something like this.