Mobile phone companies’ 5G networks are bringing more speed and innovation to consumers, but there’s at least one trade-off: To open up airwaves for 5G, the companies are shutting down older networks ...

Lisa Eadicicco covered mobile devices. Prior to joining CNET, she served as a senior tech correspondent at Insider, reporting on Apple and the broader consumer tech industry. She was also a tech ...

Cell phone networks across the Pacific Northwest were hit by a mysterious disruption this morning minutes after the inaugural “presidential alert” — although at least one cellphone provider insists ...

A US government security official urged Americans to use encrypted messaging as major telecom companies struggle to evict Chinese hackers from their networks. The attack has been attributed to a ...

Daniel writes guides on how to use the internet, explainers on how modern technology works, and the occasional smartwatch or e-reader review. He especially likes deep diving into niche topics that ...

I have good news! The infamous SS7 networks used by mobile operators to interoperate, e.g. when you’re roaming — which were built on trust, essentially devoid of security, and permitted rampant fraud, ...

Government plans to temporarily block mobile phone networks to prevent a bomb being set off in Northern Ireland by a call or ...

AT&T and Frontier have let their copper phone networks deteriorate through neglect since 2010, resulting in poor service quality and many lengthy outages, a report commissioned by the California state ...

Laptop users may soon be able to roam like callers on cell phones. Nokia on Monday will unveil a modem for laptops that can access both 802.11b networks, which laptops use to surf the Net wirelessly, ...

THE IDEA behind the Internet of Things (IoT) is that the world would be a better place if all sorts of objects that are not currently computerised were to become so. Microchipped bridges could report ...

The Global Navigation Satellite System associated with a Japanese cell phone carrier can enhance monitoring of crustal deformation changes for earthquake early warning models. A paper published ...