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Snag A Free iPhone 15 Plus From Verizon Just In Time For Easter

After Christmas, Easter is probably everyone’s second favorite holiday, or at least a top five. Kids know it for the colorful eggs and the Easter bunny, but there’s a lot more to it. Just like all...

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T-Mobile Jump Scares Customers With Vague Account Credits Text

This past week, some customers on T-Mobile received an ominous text about a change in account credits. The text, quoted below, indicated a credit being given to customers was changing to a “lump sum”,...

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T-Mobile’s Next Tuesdays Freebie Will Help You Tote Things Around

If you’re a long time T-Mobile customer, you probably have a lot of swag by now. The carrier, after all, likes giving away physical merch to users through the T-Mobile Tuesdays (now T-Life) app. It’s...

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Waveform Quad Mini Review – So Good I Bought Another One

Disclaimer: Waveform provided one unit free of charge for our review. Cellular Home Internet is pretty great for a lot of people. At least in some places, it’s disrupting the monopolies regional or...

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T-Mobile’s New AI “Profiling” Privacy Toggle Is On By Default

T-Mobile made waves back in 2021 when they automatically set user privacy settings to on by default for sharing customer info with advertisers. It made a lot of people angry then, and a new setting...

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Oh Good, There Are Straight Up Ads In The T-Mobile T-Life App Now

One of the biggest perks of being a T-Mobile user is the occasional perk, experience, or gift you get through T-Mobile Tuesdays, or “Magenta Status” as they now call it. T-Mobile tends to be rather...

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AI-Powered Carrier MobileX Now Offers Phones And Financing

Prepaid carriers, despite usually offering budget-friendly rate plans, have a disadvantage. Unlike the major postpaid carriers in the United States, namely AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, most cannot...

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A New T-Mobile Mesh Wi-Fi Access Point Appears In FCC Documents

T-Mobile Home Internet officially launched back in April of 2021. Since then, there have been four different gateway models given to customers, the latest of which, the “Gen 4“, being manufactured by...

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T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs

We’ve reported previously on the issue of “SIM Swapping”, where a bad actor illegally and fraudulently obtains access to someone’s phone line by swapping the SIM card on the line to one they possess....

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T-Mobile’s Unpopular Home Internet Priority Data Limit Now Applies To Everyone

T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet is a dream solution for many. For a flat fee, you get access to the very same 5G network your phone uses, except with unlimited data just like what you would get from a...

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Buy A Galaxy S24 From Verizon And Get A Free 65″ TV

Deals from smartphone manufacturers can occasionally be generous, but the most generous ones usually come from carriers. After all, the phones they sell are tied to lines, so they need to make up for...

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T-Mobile’s New “Away” Home Internet Gives You Nationwide Travel Wi-Fi

Today, T-Mobile announced two new Home Internet plans: Home Internet “Plus” and “Away”. The latter, Away, is designed for customers who are always on-the go, and need Wi-Fi at many different locations...

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The New “Home Internet Plus” Plan From T-Mobile: Everything You Need To Know

T-Mobile has announced a new “Home Internet Plus” as part of their latest newsroom post. The service is quite similar to their standard Home Internet plan but with a few added perks. Home Internet...

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Uh-Oh: T-Mobile Will Now Enforce Home Internet Address Eligibility

Despite the fact that T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet is using, well, a “mobile” network, you’re only supposed to use it at the address it was activated on. Still, there was technically nothing stopping...

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T-Mobile Will Finally Have Decent Protection Against Fraudulent SIM Changes

SIM swap scams are all the rage among criminals these days. Just over a week ago, we reported how employees across the country were receiving an influx of texts offering cash for illegal SIM swaps....

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Here’s T-Mobile’s New Mesh Wi-Fi 6 Access Point

Wi-Fi coverage can be a pain for larger or weirdly-shaped homes, especially if your main router is located at one end of the house. For T-Mobile, their 5G Home Internet gateways offer usable Wi-Fi 6...

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T-Mobile Employees Are Now Using AI To Decide How To Help Customers

Providing support to employees can be a cumbersome venture for a company. It is particularly complex for a company like T-Mobile. There are phone features, plan offerings, and promotional deals that...

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T-Mobile’s New Business Plan Will Give An Insane $10,000 In Credits

Individual lines are great and you can save a lot of money if you do things the right way, but if you’re a business, you need something a tad bit more scalable. Regardless of whether you have a small...

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AT&T’s “Turbo” Priority Data Add-On Launches May 2nd

Data connections over mobile networks have varying levels of “priority”. These tiers, called “Quality of Service Class Identifiers”, or QCIs, determine who gets priority access (and therefore speeds)...

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Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile are Finally Part of T-Mobile

It’s been over a year since we first heard of T-Mobile’s intentions to buy a pair of popular MVNOs, Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile. The deal to buy both networks, one of which Ryan Reynolds famously...

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