A survey, administered between Oct. 14 and Nov. 17, 2017, asked drivers from across the United States about their driving behaviors, including distracted driving, drinking and driving and speeding. The results, published in the 2017 Traffic Safety Culture Index, showed that about 97 percent of those surveyed view texting or sending emails while driving to be dangerous, yet about […]
U.S. Cellular lost a net 37,000 postpaid connections in the first quarter of the year and reported 1.23 percent postpaid churn in its latest financial report. The nation’s fifth-largest carrier — which trails far behind the U.S.’s four major providers — noted handset churn was 0.97 percent and that its net smartphone losses totaled just […]
Charter is planning to debut its Spectrum Mobile wireless service on June 30, according to DSLReports. The report, which cited an unnamed source familiar with the operator’s plan, also indicated that Charter’s wireless service will “largely mirror” Comcast’s pricing for its Xfinity Mobile service. Charter CEO Tom Rutledge hinted at that possibility on a company earnings […]
The National Security Agency vacuumed up more than 534 million records of phone calls and text messages from American telecommunications providers like AT&T and Verizon last year — more than three times what it collected in 2016, a new report revealed on Friday. Intelligence analysts are also more frequently searching for information about Americans within the agency’s […]
When Martin Cooper made his first cellphone call on April 3, 1973, the phone that he made the call on — the DynaTAC 8000x that he had invented — was much different than modern day smartphone technology. Weighing two and a half pounds and only staying charged for about 20 minutes on average, Cooper and […]
