NTT Docomo points arrive at Amazon
Mobile phone carrier NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan said Wednesday that they launched a service in which NTT Docomo’s “d Point” reward points can be earned and used on the …
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NTT West president to resign over customer information theft
Osaka – Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West President Masaaki Moribayashi said Thursday that he will step down at the end of March to take responsibility for massive customer information theft …
An AT&T Outage Is Wreaking Havoc on US Cellular Networks
It started around 3:30 in the morning on the East Coast, reports flooding in about an AT&T service outage. Customers complained across Reddit and X and logged their issues on …
SoftBank buys majority stake in Irish car software developer
Telecom firm SoftBank on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy a majority stake in Irish software developer Cubic Telecom for around €473 million (¥75.3 billion), to target surging demand …
Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them
One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that then runs underground before feeding into …
Here’s a New Plan to Rein In the Gilded Tech Bros
When I first heard in 2013 that Barack Obama had chosen Tom Wheeler to head the crucial tech regulator that is the US Federal Communications Commission, my first thought was …