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T-Mobile US is a major American wireless carrier offering mobile phone, home internet, and 5G network services nationwide.
Apple's iOS 27 iPhone Handoff moves one eSIM number to whichever of two iPhones is unlocked, with T-Mobile and Telekom the only carriers listed so far. T-Mobile says it costs $5 a month. Whether a given person can use it starts with their carrier.
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SpaceX's Grain spectrum purchase, put at nearly $8 billion by a source, is under a tenth of the more than $80 billion TD Cowen says a mobile network would cost. The build would draw on the same cash as Starship, AI infrastructure and the Terafab chip factory.
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T-Mobile is the first US carrier to support Apple's iPhone Handoff, at $5 a month, The Verge reports. Verizon plans to follow by year-end, but T-Mobile bars business accounts at launch, so for now the users are T-Mobile customers outside business accounts.
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SpaceX's reported $8 billion deal for Grain Management's 800MHz spectrum drew a public rebuttal from T-Mobile CTO John Saw. Saw calls spectrum only the starting point and satellite service a complement to terrestrial networks.
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SpaceX's reported $8 billion purchase of 14 MHz brings Starlink Mobile to roughly 80 MHz, T-Mobile CTO John Saw wrote, against his carrier's nearly 400 MHz. His wider argument is that most phone traffic happens indoors, where SpaceX would have to add coverage one building at a time.
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Samsung is pushing its Android 17-based One UI 9 to unlocked US Galaxy S26 phones after a long delay, starting with a roughly 650MB update for beta users. For app makers, it adds Samsung's own suggestions to conversation notifications and alerts users to permission use that Samsung's AI judges unnecessary.
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FCC commissioners will vote Oct. 29 on auctioning 25MHz for satellite-to-phone service and on taking comment on 482MHz more. A clearing price would test the roughly $302 million a megahertz SpaceX paid EchoStar, by Reuters' figures.
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AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile formed a company on Oct. 1 to pool some of their airwaves so ordinary phones can reach satellites beyond tower range. Analysts read it as a defense against SpaceX, while a driver who loses signal on a back road this week has the same options as before.
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The Gen 6+ sells for $649.99 and is the first Fairphone the company has sold directly in America. The argument it makes is arithmetic, not atmosphere.
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders and its first foldable sit five weeks apart. Anyone buying handsets in quantity now has two ordering windows to choose between, and the larger phone is already the constrained one.
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Jeremy Legg told WIRED that AT&T will carry fewer people in five years. An anonymous account puts the 2030 target at 85,000 employees, a figure AT&T calls inaccurate, and the first half of 2026 ran at half last year's cutting pace.
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The $10bn SoftBank owes OpenAI on 1 October is the exact size of the dollar leg of the bond it prices on 24 September. Yields on its 2031 paper have moved from 6.7% in January to about 8.2% in September.
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The Verge's Charles Pulliam-Moore argues that streamers are re-creating cable from first principles. The evidence he offers is interface design, and that is what decides how a product team should read it.
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Homeland Security Investigations used a self-issued customs subpoena to ask an outdoor retailer who bought one hat in one metro area since 2024. Every product team that keeps order history by default has a retention window it may have to defend.
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Malwarebytes has tracked the rewards-expiry smishing since early May 2026 and counted more than 1,000 template variants pointing at hostnames built as t-mobile plus six random letters under .top.
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Phil Portman, who runs the SMS tool Textdrip, says traffic that does not match its registration is rejected the same night under A2P 10DLC, while Virginia now requires businesses to honor a text opt-out for ten years.
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Homeland Security Investigations sent 92 subpoenas in a case against 39 protest defendants. One of them asked a retailer to search two years of transactions by item and hand back the people attached to them.
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The $10bn research lab is roughly 4% of what Micron has already committed to American plants, and about 1.6 times its CHIPS award. The signal is the horizon, not the size.
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A $1bn platform seeded with ten converted Cogent facilities takes about a quarter of Cogent's installed power from ten of its 185 sites. The bet is on interconnection, not slab.
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