It probably wasn’t the best idea to sell their customers’ geolocation data to third-party aggregators in the first place. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Friday issued a total of $200 million in fines to the nation’s four largest cellular carriers for selling access to real-time consumer geolocation data to third-party aggregators. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, […]
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Eero’s lineup of routers have gained support for Apple’s HomeKit protocol, eight months after Apple announced Amazon-owned Eero as one of the companies adding HomeKit support back in June at WWDC. Users who update any Eero, Eero Pro, or Eero Beacon router running the eeroOS 3.18.0 update or later wlll now about added to the Home app via a […]
Per the rumor mill, the next generation of iPhones could support a new protocol known as “IEEE 802.11ay.”: The technology could help aid communication to devices in close proximity to each other. The IEEE 802.11ay standard offers four times the bandwidth of its predecessor, and adds four streams of multiple reception/transmission. The protocol also uses […]
This is pretty impressive. During the first T-Mobile 5G test in New York City, the service achieved a score of 493 Mbps via a Verizon phone. T-Mobile’s achievement is more significant given that the carrier is currently using much less spectrum than Verizon. Allnet Insights stated that T-Mobile is using 80MHz of spectrum in New […]
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More FiOS Fodder – Battlefront TV
There are some big discussions currently going on in the state of New Jersey where Verizon is working to get legislation through that would allow them to compete in the television space, something they’re not permitted to do yet in the garden state. Verizon’s television service would be carried on Verizon’s new high-speed fiber-optic broadband […]