iPhones come in two flavours, locked and unlocked, and it’s important to be able to check which sort you’ve got. An unlocked phone can be used on any network, while a locked phone can only be used on the one it’s locked to.
The iPhones you pay full pri…
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The US Department of Justice has given its tentative approval to a wireless-industry plan to revise eSIM standards, saying that new safeguards should prevent carriers from colluding against competitors in the stand…
Oppo is continuing its confident march into the UK smartphone market with one of its cheaper handsets, the A9 2020. The phone costs £219 but manages to pack in an impressive spec sheet with quad cameras and a 5,000mAh battery.While phones are getting m…
(NatalyaBurova / iStock / Getty Images Plus)With Google announcing the Pixel 4 later today, it looks like the Pixel’s previously crippled dual-SIM functionality will finally be usable.
GigSky, a global roaming SIM provider, told us exclusively this mo…
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Adaptive Mobile — the cyber-security company that discovered the Simjacker attack — published today a list of countries where local mobile operators ship SIM cards vulnerable to Simjacker.
The list includes 29 countries acros…
A team of security researchers has detailed a second SMS-based attack that can allow malicious actors to track users’ devices by abusing little-known apps that are running on SIM cards.
This new attack, named WIBattack, is identical to Simjacker, an …
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Google Fi, Google’s MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) cellular service, is launching a second plan for users today. Besides the original pay-per-megabyte plan with unlimited calls and text, Google Fi is now launching a full blown “Unlimite…
A security firm has disclosed a disturbing vulnerability in SIM cards that can be exploited to track a phone’s location, and potentially take over the device. But the hacking danger may be overblown, at least in the US; an industry trade group says mos…
Enlarge / The logo of Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile, seen at Mobile World Congress in February 2019 in Barcelona, Spain.
The New York City government sued T-Mobile yesterday, alleging that its Metro stores routinely use “abusive sales tactics” su…
At least 600,000 GPS trackers manufactured by a Chinese company are using the same default password of “123456,” security researchers from Czech cyber-security firm Avast disclosed today.
They say that hackers can abuse this password to hijack users’…
