Tag: T-Mobile
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T-Mobile Launches 5G Phone Plan ‘Made for Video Streaming’
T-Mobile announced today the launch of Magenta MAX, a 5G smartphone plan with unlimited data, 4G and 5G. “That means you can’t be slowed down based on how much you use,” the announcement says. The company says that Magenta MAX is “made for video streaming” and promises UHD streaming up to 4K resolution. The plan…
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T-Mobile TVision Adds TV Everywhere Support
T-Mobile’s TVision streaming service has added TV Everywhere support for many of its channels, including Discovery channels and VIacomCBS channels. TVision launched in October, with live TV streaming starting at $40/month. Soon after launching, networks called the service out for not distributing content as promised in contracts. To resolve the issue, TVision began offering all…
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Weekend Round-Up: HBO Max on Fire TV, Hulu Price Hike, and More
This week saw HBO Max finally arriving on Amazon’s Fire TV platform. Hulu announced a price hike for its live TV streaming service and we learned that Wonder Woman 1984 will premiere in theaters and on streaming on the same day. Here at Cord Cutters News, we also examined the state of streaming on the…
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T-Mobile Adds 30+ Channels to TVision Live to Address Distribution Disputes
T-Mobile is adding 33 channels to its TVision live package, the same 33 channels available in its TVision Vibe package, at no additional cost. This is a limited time offer, and seems to be a way for T-Mobile to address disagreements with programmers over where their content landed on the TVision service. Soon after T-Mobile…
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T-Mobile is Discontinuing TVision Home
Just after launching its TVision Live streaming service in October, T-Mobile is notifying customers that it will be discontinuing its TVision Home service in December. T-Mobile is encouraging TVision Home subscribers to migrate to TVision Live. TVision Home was a relaunch of Layer3. The service launched in April 2019 that the company described as an…
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Weekend Wrap-Up: AirPlay 2 Comes to Roku Devices, Disney+ Anniversary, and More
This week, we took a good, long look at Roku’s new OS 9.4 and new AirPlay and HomeKit support on certain Roku devices. Meanwhile, more companies are sharing their latest earnings and subscriber numbers. T-Mobile is expanding its home internet service plans, and Microsoft is sweetening the Xbox Game Pass deal with free access to…
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T-Mobile Surpasses 100 Million Customers
Even though the 2020 pandemic is wreaking havoc on companies across America, some corporations are still growing. And one of those just passed a big milestone. T-Mobile has announced they have more than 100 million customers (100.4 million to be exact), making them the second largest wireless carrier. The company added just over 2 million…
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T-Mobile Expands $50 Home Internet to 130 New Cities
T-Mobile announced it’s adding 130 more cities to its $50/month home internet pilot service. Now, households in certain cities in Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin will be able to take advantage of T-Mobile’s all-in home internet. This new service will offer 50 Mbps home internet (due…
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Weekend Wrap-Up: Roku Earnings, T-Mobile Troubles, Spectrum Price Hikes, and More
Welcome to November 2020. There is, shall we say, a lot going on right now beyond the entertainment world, but there was still plenty of cord cutting and streaming news to talk about this week. We’ve got more third quarter earnings to talk about from Roku and others and more streaming app support for next-gen…
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T-Mobile Responds to Concerns Over TVision Content Distribution
Yesterday, Discovery CEO David Zaslav commented during the company’s Q3 earnings call that he was “very surprised” to see Discovery channels on T-Mobile’s low cost streaming plan, Vibe, but not the more expensive Live packages. NBC and ViacomCBS quickly joined Discovery in sharing their issues with the way T-Mobile has chosen to distribute content. By…