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T-Mobile USA Experiencing Network Problems
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
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 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 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
T-Mobile Says Software Error Caused Service Outage
T-Mobile issued yet another statement to explain what was behind the service outage experienced by its users on Tuesday, November 3. It said, "After investigating the cause, we have ... 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
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 Launches Color Sidekick
T-Mobile USA today launched the highly anticipated color version of the T-Mobile Sidekick™, boasting a new 65,000-color screen, AOL® Mail functionality and new monthly service options. The device is ... 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
AT&T Wireless Launches Voice-Dialing Service
AT&T Wireless today added a new voice-dialing service to its #121 network-based voice information service. Customers can add new contacts (up to 500) via the web or by phone. ... read
New Network Could Compete With Cellular Phone Service
Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) today fired a shot across the bow of American Cellular carriers, announcing it has placed an order with Boeing for three satellites. The company intends ... read
T-Mobile To Restore Sidekick Data This Week
T-Mobile said in a statement, "We hope to be able to begin restoring personal contacts for affected users this week, with the remainder of the content (photographs, notes, to-do-lists, ... read
T-Mobile Quietly Launches Unlimited Data
T-Mobile USA this week began offering unlimited GPRS data plans. The new flat-rate service is $19.99 per month when paired with a qualifying voice plan, or $29.99 as a ... read
VoiceStream Announces Inter-Carrier SMS
VoiceStream today officially announced the availability of expanded two-way text messaging services, allowing customers to send text messages nationwide, no matter which wireless service provider they use. VoiceStream began ... read
T-Mobile Launches UMA Service In Seattle
T-Mobile today rolled out the HotSpot @Home service in Seattle area stores. "HotSpot @Home" is T-Mobile's brand name for Universal Mobile Access (UMA) which allows a cell phone to ... 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
Virgin Mobile Gets Buzzd
Today Virgin Mobile USA announced that it will be offering buzzd's location-based entertainment services to all its customers. Buzzd lets people access information about local events and venues, along ... read
RIM Bringing Email Support Back to S60
Several months ago, Nokia stopped including the software necessary for S60-based phones to exchange information with Research In Miotion's BES email servers. In response, RIM is working to provide ... read
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