The traditional way to make a cellphone call is for your handset to ping whichever base station you’re closest to, with your voice and the voice of the person you’re speaking to flying through the air ...

Thousands of AT&T customers are unsuccessfully searching for a signal across the country amid a nationwide telecommunication outage early Thursday morning. AT&T acknowledged the issue in a statement ...

If you value keeping your online activities private, a VPN (Virtual Private Network) can be essential. It disguises your internet traffic, making it harder for others to track what you do online.

Tens of thousands of people awoke Thursday to SOS notifications and a cell phone outage mainly affecting AT&T and Cricket Wireless customers, according to Downdetector.com. Reports of the outage began ...

Google Hangouts is a wonderful app that can save you a lot of money and allow you to talk to others even without a SIM card. We have already explained how to make free Wi-Fi calls using Google ...

We’ve all been there, standing by a window or waving our phones in the air, hoping a bar or two of mobile phone signal will appear. For many, Wi-Fi calling seems like the perfect solution, if your ...

Many AT&T users are rushing to figure out how to enable essential cell phone features amid a nationwide outage impacting upwards of 57,000 people as of 10:26 a.m. CT. AT&T is encouraging its users to ...

If you’re planning to travel internationally this year, you’ll want to have a solid game plan for phone coverage during your trip. There are several options available, including using a foreign SIM or ...

Philips has announced that sometime next year, a US cellphone carrier will be using its Nexperia 6120 chipset to allow you to make calls on home WiFi networks—for a flat rate of a few dollars a month.

Imagine that you have a Wi-Fi tablet that doesn’t support SIM cards, but you still want to make phone calls. Buying a new device just to say ‘hi’ to your grandmother doesn’t really seem like an ...