$200mn Settlement for Telco That Took Government Subsidies for 885,000 Ineligible Customers
T-Mobile USA will pay the FCC’s largest fixed-amount civil penalty as redress for Sprint wrongly claiming Lifeline payments.
T-Mobile Outage Caused 250mn Calls to Fail
The FCC said a cascade of failures would have been prevented if T-Mobile USA had periodically audited the diversity of their networks.
US Telcos Vulnerable to Prepaid SIM Swaps, Say Researchers
Princeton academics tested how little information was needed to persuade five US mobile telcos to execute a SIM swap.
First STIR/SHAKEN Verified Call across Three Telcos
T-Mobile US, Comcast and Inteliquent say they have achieved a global first by using a digital signature to validate the origin of a call routed across three networks.
T-Mobile US Data Breach Hits Million Prepay Customers
Though no financial data was compromised, there will be an increased risk of account takeovers.
12 US Telcos Form Anti-Robocall Alliance
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has persuaded the bulk of US telephony providers to adopt eight principles for stopping nuisance robocalls.
Customer Takes T-Mobile US to Court After Scammer Threatens Family
The telco is being sued for not blocking threatening calls where the originating number was shown as ‘0000’.
Scorn for Web Identity Scheme of US Mobile Operators
The operators want to authenticate subscribers when they use online services provided by other businesses.
T-Mobile US Admits to New Data Breach
The telco denied customer passwords were compromised but seemingly this is because the passwords were encrypted. Security researchers have questioned the strength of the encryption.
Next-Gen Mobile Authentication Coming to the USA
The ‘big four’ mobile operators in the USA intend to deliver a common secure authentication service by the end of the year.