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Verizon Communications is a major US carrier offering wireless, broadband, and business services, and publishes the annual Data Breach Investigations Report.
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 agreed on Thursday to buy Grain Management's nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio for Starlink Mobile, pending approval from the FCC. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile shares fell after hours on fears that a satellite rival that can reach phones indoors will start a price war.
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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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Personal AI agents that cancel subscriptions and chase refunds could put $2.8bn a year of US insurance premiums at stake, by one Business Insider scenario. Investors may already be pricing the threat, though one strategist expects little effect until 40% to 50% of customers use agents.
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Verizon will purge all Connect Work data after a final shutdown on March 31, 2027, and recommends finishing exports by December 31, 2026. Each customer's own administrators have to run the exports and carry the files to the next tool, a job that can stretch across weeks of queued requests.
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AT&T and T-Mobile fell about 9% and Verizon 6% on Friday morning after SpaceX said it was buying low-band spectrum from Grain Management. That spectrum alone cannot carry a nationwide network, so the carriers' first bill may come at spectrum auctions, where Evercore expects SpaceX to push up prices.
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SpaceX's plan to become a major US mobile carrier cut AT&T and Verizon shares 10% and T-Mobile's 14% on Friday, erasing more than $50 billion in value. JPMorgan and UBS analysts say matching the incumbents would take a ground network SpaceX has yet to build, so business wireless buyers are negotiating against that construction timetable.
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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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Tanium shipped detection, response and hunting tools on its Atlas agent platform that query endpoints live, instead of SIEM logs it says can be hours old. Teams rolling them out have to decide which actions, such as quarantining a host, an agent may take without a person signing off.
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T-Mobile cut "with Starlink" from its T-Satellite homepage in the week it, AT&T and Verizon launched a joint venture to pool satellite spectrum. The satellites behind the service are still SpaceX's, under a US exclusivity T-Mobile's CEO says lasts beyond this year.
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BT Group will buy TalkTalk out of administration, debt-free, at a cash cost it puts at 400 million pounds. Once a regulatory process ends, TalkTalk's wholesale customers, including connections that support health, defence and emergency services, would be buying from BT.
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Bill Gross told investors to own no bonds except one-year Treasury bills at 4.55%, citing about $84 trillion of credit and federal debt at 100% of GDP. Holding only bills gives up the gain longer bonds would make in a slowdown, and Gross himself expects the debt to bring one.
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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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Sens. Mark Warner and Ted Cruz filed a bill giving NTIA 18 months to write voluntary telecom security practices, with an optional third-party certification. Adopting them stays each carrier's choice, nearly a year after the mandatory post-breach rules were scrapped.
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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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The 5G bundle costs $2,395 with $10 a month for Verizon customers, and the Specs Intelligence app opened a waitlist today for people with no glasses at all, asking to connect the apps they already use.
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Apple's iPhone Handoff moves calls and messages between two iPhones sharing one number. Availability, price and cancellation all run through the carrier, and on T-Mobile that is $5 a month per number.
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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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