The Consumer Electronics Show stole the headlines last week, and while most of the chatter centered on the new tech gadgets like a roll-able television (seriously,
check this thing out), there was also some telecom news mixed in.
Here are the highlights:
- 5G is moving closer and closer to reality, with D-Link launching a 5G home router to be available soon, and Sprint announcing a 5G Samsung device set for a summer debut
- AT&T announced an additional 50,000 square miles of its LTE coverage, which works out to around a million more people
- BlackBerry is scaling its BlackBerry Secure technology to help the IoT market after finding that 80% of its customers don't trust their current internet-connected devices and 58% would pay more to feel more secure
- T-Mobile is going all in on its anti-scam efforts with the launch of caller verification technology. Customers with the Samsung Galaxy S9 already have access to the tech, and T-Mobile says it has already flagged nearly 9 billion calls as "scam likely" for its users and blocked more than 1 billion calls
Check out a full breakdown here.