Recognize him? SAPD, Crime Stoppers seek suspect in robbery of Metro by T-Mobile store
San Antonio police said Metro by T-Mobile on Ingram Road was robbed at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 13. SAN ANTONIO โ Crime Stoppers is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest in a robbery of a Metro by T-Mobile store on the Northwest Side. San Antonio police said the store in the 5900 block of Ingram Road was robbed at 7 p.m. on Saturday. The suspect approached an employee, made threats and demanded cash and property, according to Crime Stoppers. Crime Stoppers and San Antonio police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
T-Mobile offers up yet another TV streaming service
Yet another service provider is jumping into the TV streaming wars. This time it's T-Mobile and its TVision service with live news, entertainment and sports channels, starting at $10 a month. And most similar streaming services have found it difficult to sustain low prices over time. And TVision Channels, which lets you sign up for individual channel streaming services, starting with just three: Starz, Showtime and Epix. A slew of new streaming services started to challenge traditional TV providers and dominant streaming services like Netflix over the past year, including Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max and Comcastโs Peacock service.
Japan tech giant SoftBank's profits rise on investments
TOKYO Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp.'s said Tuesday that its profit rose 12% in April-June from a year earlier as its investments added to its coffers, including sales of its shares in U.S. carrier T-Mobile. Tokyo-based SoftBank reported Tuesday a fiscal first quarter profit of 1.2 trillion yen ($11.5 billion), up from 1.1 trillion yen in the previous fiscal year. Quarterly sales inched down 2% to 1.45 trillion yen ($13.7 billion). The company compared the crisis to the hard times of the Great Depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s. It already operates in Tokyo, as well as Nagoya, Fukuoka and other urban areas in Japan.
FCC calls hours-long T-Mobile service outage 'unacceptable'
NEW YORK The head of the U.S. communications regulator said T-Mobile's nationwide, hours-long outage Monday was unacceptable and that the Federal Communications Commission will investigate. T-Mobile, one of the country's three largest cellphone service providers, said it had a voice and text wireless issue" that began around noon EDT Monday. The company blamed an internet-traffic issue that caused problems with its network for the outage. But calls between their customers and T-Mobile customers could have run into trouble because of T-Mobiles issues, creating the impression of a widespread communications failure. T-Mobile paid a $17.5 million fine for two nationwide service outages on the same day in August 2014, which together lasted three hours and prevented customers from being able to call 911.
T-Mobile says its working to fix widespread network issues
T-Mobile, one of the three largest mobile carriers in the U.S., said it's working to fix a widespread voice and data issue." The company's president of technology, Neville Ray, tweeted Monday afternoon at around 4 p.m. ET that T-Mobile engineers hope to fix the problem soon. But calls between their customers and T-Mobile customers could have problems because of T-Mobile's issues. T-Mobile became one of the country's largest carriers, along with AT&T and Verizon, after buying rival Sprint.