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T-Mobile Says Software Error Caused Service Outage
T-Mobile Says All Services Restored
T-Mobile issued a statement late Tuesday night to inform customers that all voice and data services had be restored after an outage affected 5% of T-Mobile's subscribers. T-Mobile said ... read
Cingular Recovers from Massive Outage
Cingular experienced major outages throughout its GSM network for much of the weekend, leaving about 900,000 customers without service. The outage stretched from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning. While ... read
T-Mobile Temporarily Halts Sales of Sidekicks
T-Mobile has temporarily ceased selling the Sidekick family of devices online and in some retail stores in the wake of the data service outage and end-user data loss experienced ... read
T-Mobile Attempts to Make Amends with Sidekick Customers
This evening, T-Mobile USA issued another statement concerning the loss of its Sidekick users' personal data. T-Mobile says its Sidekick data service has been fully restored and that the ... read
T-Mobile Says It Has Recovered Most Sidekick User Data
Today T-Mobile posted a message in its Sidekick forums announcing that it has recovered most of the user data that was feared lost over the weekend. In the statement, ... read
BlackBerry Service Briefly Goes Down
Research In Motion's wireless BlackBerry email service crashed Tuesday evening across the entire Western Hemisphere. BlackBerry did not provide any details concerning the reason behind the crash, but was ... read
T-Mobile Clarifies Customer Data Issue
T-Mobile issued the following statement regarding reports of a breach in its data systems. "To reaffirm, the protection of our customers' information and the security of our systems is ... read
Future Android Update Status of T-Mobile G1 Unclear
Conflicting reports leave HTC G1 owners without a real answer with respect to the G1's ability to update to Android 2.0 and beyond. Android software engineer Dave Sparks recently ... read
T-Mobile USA Experiencing Network Problems
T-Mobile USA has confirmed that its cellular network is experiencing both voice and data outages. In a statement earlier tonight, the company said, "T-Mobile customers may be experiencing service ... read
T-Mobile and Microsoft: Sidekick User Data is Gone
Today T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger admitted via its forums that this week's service outage and resulted in the loss of end-user data stored on their servers. In a statement, T-Mobile ... read
T-Mobile Responds to HTC G1 International Roaming Issue
T-Mobile issued a statement today to clear up confusion with respect to the HTC G1's data usage when roaming overseas. The statement reads, in part: "If a T-Mobile customer ... read
Palm Issues Statement Over Palm Pre Privacy Concerns
Today a report surfaced that accused webOS and the Palm Pre of sending end-user information -- including location data and what sort of applications were running -- back to ... read
Sprint Cancels Palm Pre Promotion After Just Several Hours
Earlier today, Sprint made a new promotion available whereby it would give new customers who buy a Palm Pre a $100 credit towards their services. It appears that the ... read
AT&T Fined More than $10 Million in Florida
AT&T announced a settlement with the Florida Attorney General's office regarding third-party ringtones that were advertised as free, but were billed to end users. AT&T will reimburse customers who ... read
T-Mobile Updates 3G Data Usage Cap Language
T-Mobile has changed the wording of its 3G usage cap. T-Mobile said in a statement, "Our goal, when the T-Mobile G1 becomes available in October, is to provide affordable, ... read
T-Mobile, Motorola Announce Slide Fix
T-Mobile issued a statement today providing more information about the Motorola Sidekick Slide. Motorola has determined the cause of the power cycle problem is related to the battery contacts. ... read
New App Brings Mobile TV to BlackBerries
A new application from QuickPlay Media called PrimeTime2Go will let BlackBerry users download and play TV programming on their handsets. PrimeTime2Go offers full-length shows from a wide variety of ... read
Zer01 Is Now Fully Open for Business
Today Zer01 officially began offering its wireless services in the U.S. For $70 per month, Zer01 users will get unlimited voice and data service across the U.S. Zer01 customers ... read
Opera to Turbo-Charge Mobile Browsing
Today Opera Software announced a new product that is meant to reduce data congestion and speed up browsing from the desktop as well as the mobile phone. According to ... read
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