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The most expensive mobile network in the USA has been down for several hours today for most customers with no ETA on service restoration. #Verizon

Got an email from Verizon Wireless that my loyalty discount is going away on September 1. With a link to get info. The link showed a page about this but it then immediately popped to my overview page.
So I called. The out of country representative stated that they will be sending another email before September 1 with what the NEW discounts are, and to wait. Then he tried to upsell me an additional line.

AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695916/att-account-lock-sim-swapping-attack

AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks
AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that will let wireless customers prevent unauthorized changes to their account, such as phone number and SIM card transfers.

Love that Verizon can text and email me advertisements after I've unsubscribed... twice. But they don't text or email about security breaches.. #tech

YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, DirecTV and Verizon Fios dropped OANN (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world

MAGA channel One America News, once under threat of extinction, reaches ‘long-term carriage deal’ with YouTube TV
The launch of OAN and AWE on YouTube TV is scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2025

What is the least politically / ethically awful US cell carrier right now? Is there even a difference?
I feel like I hear AT&T and Verizon mentioned most often as morally objectionable, followed by T-Mobile. Less Sprint, but…is that just because they’re smaller…?
I’m aware of the existence of Credo Mobile, but I’m a little skeptical of how effective it is getting service from them since much of the money goes to Verizon in the end.

A federal appeals court rejects T-Mobile's bid to overturn a $92M fine for illegally sharing customer location data without consent, per a 2024 FCC ruling (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree
T-Mobile can’t overturn $92 million fine; AT&T and Verizon verdicts still to come.

The Trump Organization teases the $499 "T1 Phone", a "sleek, gold" phone "designed and built" in the US, and Trump Mobile, based on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trum

Trump Mobile: President's Company Unveils 5G Wireless Service
President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.

Sources detail how X has used threats of lawsuits and high pressure tactics to motivate companies such as Amazon and Verizon to resume advertising on the site (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitt…

Virtualizing RAN: Science, Strategy, and Architecture of Software-Defined Mobile Networks
Ryan Barker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09878 https://

Virtualizing RAN: Science, Strategy, and Architecture of Software-Defined Mobile Networks
Virtualising the Radio Access Network (RAN) is widely touted as the corner-stone of affordable 5G and a prerequisite for AI-native 6G. Yet current discourse often isolates spectrum policy, cloud engineering and organisational readiness into silos. This paper delivers an integrated analysis that spans science, technology, business strategy and culture. I first review spectrum-auction economics and show-via a comparative study of T-Mobile US and Verizon-that mid-band contiguity leveraged through …

The DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking over 10 telcos and to extortion; in February, he admitted hacking AT&T and Verizon (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/us-a

US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos and extortion | TechCrunch
Cameron Wagenius had already pleaded guilty to other charges earlier this year.

Sources detail how X has used threats of lawsuits and high pressure tactics to motivate companies such as Amazon and Verizon to resume advertising on the site (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitt…