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Verizon announces it won’t cut off service due to billing, will waive late fees until June 30

With various wireless carriers easing billing restrictions during the pandemic, Verizon has followed suit, and announced on Monday that it will not disconnect individual customers and small businesses unable to pay their bills through June 30. The company has stated that service will not be terminated and that no late fees will be collected, the […]

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iFixit posts full teardown of iPhone SE 2020, praises easy-to-access take apart process, interchangeability with some iPhone 8 components

Once again, the cool cats at iFixit have come forward with a full teardown report, this time dissecting the iPhone SE 2020 and liking what they found. As mentioned yesterday, the newest iPhone has been x-rayed, taken apart, and it was discovered that a number of core components could be easily replaced with iPhone 8 […]

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FCC issues combined $200 million in fines to AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile for selling geolocation data to third-party aggregators

It probably wasn’t the best idea to sell their customers’ geolocation data to third-party aggregators in the first place. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Friday issued a total of $200 million in fines to the nation’s four largest cellular carriers for selling access to real-time consumer geolocation data to third-party aggregators. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, […]

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Eero mesh routers gain HomeKit support following eeroOS 3.18.0 update

Eero’s lineup of routers have gained support for Apple’s HomeKit protocol, eight months after Apple announced Amazon-owned Eero as one of the companies adding HomeKit support back in June at WWDC.  Users who update any Eero, Eero Pro, or Eero Beacon router running the eeroOS 3.18.0 update or later wlll now about added to the Home app via a […]

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IEEE 802.11ay Wi-Fi standard could offer four times the bandwidth of predecessor, help facilitate communication between nearby devices

Per the rumor mill, the next generation of iPhones could support a new protocol known as “IEEE 802.11ay.”: The technology could help aid communication to devices in close proximity to each other. The IEEE 802.11ay standard offers four times the bandwidth of its predecessor, and adds four streams of multiple reception/transmission. The protocol also uses […]