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US man returns from Europe to $143,000 T-Mobile bill for using phone overseas Gigantic bill apparently reflected using 9.5 gigabytes of data on a phone that had not been set up for international roaming Guardian staff Thu 18 Apr 2024 08.52 EDT Share A Florida man was stunned to come back from a European trip and – upon checking his phone bill – realize that he had been charged a staggering $143,000 by his phone company for using his device while overseas. ABC Action News reported that Rene Remund and his wife had toured Switzerland last September and had even...

T-Mobile has confirmed its servers have been hacked - but refused to confirm claims 100 million customers personal data - including social security numbers and drivers licenses - are now for sale online. The hack was confirmed Monday afternoon, with a spokesman saying: 'We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred, however we have not yet determined that there is any personal customer data involved.' T-Mobile offered no further details of the breach, or confirmation that details including the names, addresses and unique phone serial numbers - known as IMEIs - of almost its entire customer base...

Final roadblocks preventing the merger between T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. were eliminated Wednesday after the California Public Utilities Commission and the state's Attorney General made separate agreements with the two carriers.

NEW YORK (AP) — A high-drama telecom deal is heading to court. T-Mobile, in its attempt to buy Sprint for $26.5 billion, has already notched approvals from key federal regulators. Now it must convince a federal judge that the 14 state attorneys general suing to stop the deal are wrong. A trial starts Monday in U.S. District Court in New York and is expected to last several weeks. If T-Mobile prevails, the number of major U.S. wireless companies would shrink to three from four. A combined T-Mobile-Sprint would become a fiercer competitor to larger Verizon and AT&T . But the...

Cyber attacks from Russia are now so common that Germany must learn to cope with them as part of daily life, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday, after Europe’s top economy suffered its largest ever online assault. Almost one million Deutsche Telekom clients were knocked offline from Sunday, with Germany’s online security chief describing it as “a hacking attack”. Merkel said she did not know who was behind the strike, but added that “such cyber attacks, or hybrid conflicts as they are known in Russian doctrine, are now part of daily life and we must learn to cope with them”. “We...

Even before it emerged that the National Security Agency had wiretapped her mobile phone, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was calling for the Internet to have something like Airbus—a joint European initiative able to compete with the dominance of American and Chinese high-tech companies, just as Airbus does with the US aerospace giant Boeing. Currently, the global market for software and online services is firmly in American hands. What’s more, American corporations, such as Google, are subject to the PATRIOT Act, which requires them to allow American intelligence agencies access to their data centers. On the other hand, the equipment that...

Europe’s largest telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, said Monday that it would more than double the number of its female managers within five years, becoming the first member of Germany’s DAX-30 index of blue-chip companies to introduce gender quotas. The move comes amid increasing political pressure on companies across Europe to increase women’s representation among their leadership ranks and to address persistent gender gaps in areas such as pay and professional opportunity. Deutsche Telekom said it planned to increase the number of women in senior and middle management to 30 percent by 2015, from 12 percent today. The company said the...