If you’re a T-Mobile customer, you may have noticed that your FaceTime calls have gotten smoother. That’s because the carrier announced today that it’s rolling out support for a new tech called Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S) across its 5G Advanced network. T-Mobile says it’s the first U.S. wireless provider to deploy L4S at scale, and it’s promising …
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T-Mobile is bringing low-latency tech to 5G for the first time
Over the next few weeks, T-Mobile is expanding support for the L4S standard, which stands for “Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput.” The technology helps high-priority internet packets move along with fewer delays, to make video calls and cloud games feel smoother and reduce annoying hitches. Users won’t need a special phone or plan to take advantage of the benefits …
Read More »T-Mobile vs. Verizon — here’s why we updated our pick for the best phone carrier
T-Mobile and Verizon seem to be playing a game of leapfrog when it comes to our best phone carrier rankings. One of the wireless phone service providers will make a change — maybe to its assortment of data plans, maybe to the various perks it offers — and vault ahead of the other in our estimation. Then, the other company …
Read More »T-Mobile users should update settings if they don’t want sensitive info to be shared with other firms
T-Mobile has added two privacy toggles to settings and they may rub some users the wrong way. T-Mobile‘s “Privacy Center” now features new toggles that are turned on by default, per The Mobile Report. The first is called “Fraud and identity theft protection,” and it uses your information to prevent fraud. The company explains that it uses your data, such …
Read More »Disable These Two Settings to Stop T-Mobile From Harvesting Even More of Your Data
Like most companies, T-Mobile wants your money but it also wants your data. Back in May, we learned T-Mobile’s T-Life app was recording customers’ phone screens by default—at least, anything they did within that app. You could opt-out, but you’d only do that if you knew it the app was doing it, and if you knew there was a setting …
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