When two of the nation's largest carriers go live with their next-gen networks later this year, phones and tablets won't be available. It looks like Verizon and AT&T are preparing mobile hotspots for 5G instead. Verizon confirmed its decision to Bloomberg. At MWC 2018 in Barcelona, Verizon's Ronan Dunne said phones and tablets should arrive beginning in the first half of 2019. In...
Nationwide 5G networks aren't expected to go live until sometime next year, but in 2018 some carriers have plans for multi-city trials. AT&T just announced the first three cities in the United States that will be covered by its 5G network this year. Customers in Dallas, Waco, and Atlanta are gaining access to 5G connectivity before anyone else. AT&T previously stated it will...
Stopping one of the nation’s largest carriers from selling the Mate 10 Pro was only the beginning. Now there’s an ongoing effort by the U.S. government to stop AT&T from doing any business at all with Huawei, a company long-rumored to be spying on behalf of the Chinese government. The two were set to introduce a high-end product in the U.S. last week until plans were canceled just...
Huawei plans to bring its latest flagship, the Mate 10, to the United States in 2018 with a big-budget advertising campaign leading the charge. After launching the phone back in October, the Chinese company finally appears to have a plan in place for a strong release in one of the most competitive markets. The Mate 10 should be available exclusively through AT&T, and the carrier...
AT&T announced it is rolling out trials for its Gigabit LTE coverage in Austin, Texas. It is calling this new network 5G Evolution, and it's the first of twenty cities to receive the trials throughout the year. The gradual implementation of 5G Evolution marks AT&T's move to bring a faster network to its customers. AT&T is promising twice the data speeds on the new network....
Laptop Mag released its findings for its annual Tech Support Showdown and unsurprisingly, Apple took top honors while Acer made a big jump to place number two. For its testing, Laptop Mag posed as regular customers on calls or through the website in search of solution for basic problems. Each phone support rep was called three times and asked the same questions. In terms of providing...
AT&T just announced changes to its current unlimited plan while also launching a new and more affordable unlimited option (so long as you don't mind slower data speeds.) The plans are called Unlimited Plus and Unlimited Choice. The Unlimited Plus Plan is the one you're already familiar with. In an effort to take on T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint, AT&T added tethering support (up...
AT&T won J.D. Power's purchase experience full-service study this morning. It's the eighth time in a row that AT&T has received the top accolade and the only time any carrier has been picked as the top service provider in each of J.D. Power's six surveyed categories. The categories include carrier store sales rep rankings, facilities, website sales, phone sales, offerings/...
Some of our readers are probably already aware that I recently subscribed to DirecTV Now in an effort to try AT&T’s new on-demand streaming option. Last night, I fired up the application on my Android phone in an attempt to cast the finale of Westworld, already a day old at that point, to my living room TV. DirecTV Now had every episode of Westworld except the finale on demand,...
AT&T’s DirecTV Now service may seem pretty compelling on the surface, especially since it offers a solid bundle of more than 100 TV channels for $35 per month, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good for consumers. In fact, the FCC is worried that the way AT&T has decided to handle DirecTV data on its network could be in violation of net neutrality regulations. There’s good...