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US Senator Richard Blumenthal on Friday called on AT&T to stop pursuing plans to offer cellphone plans partially subsidized by advertising that he said would undermine consumer privacy. “Consumers expect that their phone and broadband providers are not spying on their phone calls and web browsing or using their private data for commercial gain,” Blumenthal, …
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Verizon Communications said Monday it will buy prepaid mobile phones provider Tracfone, a unit of Mexican telecoms giant America Movil, in a $6.25 billion cash and stock deal. Tracfone, which serves about 21 million subscribers through more than 90,000 retail locations across the United States, said more than 13 million of its subscribers rely on …
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Samsung has inked a $6.6 billion contract to help American communications firm Verizon build its fifth-generation wireless network. The South Korean telecom giant will provide New York-based Verizon with network equipment along with installation and maintenance under the contract signed Friday, Samsung said in a Monday regulatory filing. The pact will run through the end …
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A 25-year-old skin care consultant gets several text messages and calls each day meant for Tesla CEO Elon Musk, all because AT&T assigned her the billionaire’s old phone number. Lyndsay Tucker, who works at a Sephora in San Jose, Calif., was unwittingly given Musk’s old digits as a college student. Suddenly, she began receiving a …
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Nokia declined to comment on Thursday on a media report saying it was working with an investment bank to defend itself from a hostile takeover — the news of which sent its shares flying. “Nokia does not comment on market rumors,” said a Nokia spokesman. Earlier on Thursday shares in Nokia surged 12.5 percent with …
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The millions of bits of cellphone data tracked by analytics firm Unacast show the economic impact of the coronavirus spreading across the US like a deep freeze — long-distance travel was hit early on, but eventually overall retail foot traffic slowed to a crawl, too. As the US started shutting down to fight the coronavirus …
US Senator Richard Blumenthal on Friday called on AT&T to stop pursuing plans to offer cellphone plans partially subsidized by advertising that he said would undermine consumer privacy. “Consumers expect that their phone and broadband providers are not spying on their phone calls and web browsing or using their private data for commercial gain,” Blumenthal, …
