Shortly after T-Mobile closed its Mint Mobile acquisition, it looks like it still has further plans for the company. According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, T-Mo and Verizon are in talks to purchase separate portions of US Cellular. According to the report, T-Mo is already neari...
I see one problem with this article. They called US Cellular an MVNO when it's actually an MNO.
No, it doesn't. It would stop satellites from communicating with Earth on those frequencies due to having the ionosphere in the way, but it would not stop ground-based equipment from communicating with other ground-based equipment on those frequencies.
No, they don't. They would stop satellites from communicating with Earth on those frequencies through the ionosphere, but they wouldn't stop ground equipment from communicating with each other on those frequencies.
Oh, I understand. I get that the money is invested in things that will grow over time, but you're still having to take risk in order to get that return. Otherwise, what happens is you lose your money to inflation. At least with gold, it's a steady rise and will not fluctuate a whole lot. Gold holds your purchasing power with very little risk at all.
The reason I say to hold the physical metal is because if you just hold an ETF, you are holding an IOU for gold, but you are not holding gold. Whereas if you own the physical metal and you can hold it in your hand, then you own it. And if somebody wants it, they have to take it from you by force. With an ETF, they can just say, oh, well, we're not going to give you your money back. Sorry.
By physical gold, not any of that ETF bullshit. You need to take physical possession of the actual metal itself.
You can buy visa or mastercard cards with it if needed. So its accepted everywhere those are
World gold council
Yes, but at a steady, predictable rate that is not controlled by a government.
I don't know if a pension system would work as it seems like pensions were primarily for people who stayed for 20 years at one single job and nobody really does that anymore. But employers giving their employees gold wouldn't be a bad thing. The article did not mention inflation, but it is a serious downside to a 401k. As an example, in 40 years, any money you save now will be worth 20% of what it currently is worth. If you save $100 at age 20 in a 401k, then by the time you are 65, that $100 would be worth something like $10 in today's purchasing power. That's an incredibly dumb thing to save in.
Gold... Okay, well technically it inflates by 1.8% per year, but at least that's steady and predictable. Where some years the dollar inflates by 3% a year and some years it inflates by 10%.
You absolutely must replicate as much data as you can in server rooms there instead of having to pull it from Earth via laser link and you must launch some sort of relay satellite at a 45 degree angle or whatever so that it can maintain contact during solar conjunction.
Depending on how many dollars they hold when the inflationary bag comes due, they will get wrecked pretty badly. The United States has managed to offshore most of its inflation onto the rest of the world for years and years. And when that reverses, we are going to have mega inflation like Argentina. Personally, I'm getting out of the US dollar right now while there are still suckers who will take it.
Maybe don't encourage people to save in a currency that's purposely depreciating throughout their entire lives?
Back in April, T-Mobile announced that it will be adding two Home Internet plans called Home Internet Plus and Away. Along with this announcement, the Un-carrier revealed that they will be verifying the addresses of its Home Internet customers with the launch of the Away plan on May 8th. But as rev...
T-Mobile will be presenting at the MoffettNathanson’s Media & Communications Conference. T-Mobile US, Inc.’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, Peter Osvaldik, will be presenting and providing a business update. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 11:00 am EDT. I...
I don't have the host name, no. I prefer to use the character string like that because it seems to resolve better.
Welcome to this month's speedtest megathread. Yep, you heard that right, it's time to show off your speeds.
Format
Location (city, state), Downlink, Uplink, Device, Notes. An example would look like this: "Minneapolis, MN, 554 down, 31 up, Google Pixel 7a, taken in downtown".
Rules
- No screenshots. They take up valuable server space, require more bandwidth, and are not accessible to screen reader users.
- If you live in a small town or rural area please fudge your location a little. As an example if i lived in Olive Hill, Ky (population 1580) I might use Grayson, Ky (population 3834) instead.
I want to like it, but it is not sending me push notifications, and that is a deal breaker. I run lineage OS and have ntfy as a unified push provider but expected that the app would be able to have a check interval at which time it would send me notifications if anything was new. The description says it's capable of doing notifications, but I did not see them in several hours of using it with notifications turned on. This is probably one I will revisit in the future to see if there's any progress on it.
Edit: I just realized in filing a comment on a bug report with my experience this morning that the system never did prompt me to allow notifications for the app. So I manually went in and allowed notifications and so we will see if that works.
Edit 2: that worked. Add a new feed, swipe up to go to app switcher, tap read you icon, tap app info, tap notifications, and turn them on. Switch back to read you, long press a feed, and tap allow notification (it doesnt respect the setting when you add the feed for some reason)
The major wireless carriers in the country are currently facing a fine from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for illegally selling the location data of its customers without their consent. This marks the end of a 2019 investigation into how carriers disregarded the privacy of its customer...
You know, I'm actually not surprised that one went away. I was kind of expecting it might. Because it seems like it would be a rather unpopular option. Now, if it had had 2000 of everything instead of 1000, that might have been a slightly different story.
It’s official! T-Mobile has received the approval of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its proposed acquisition of Ka’ena Corporation and its assets, Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile. The Un-carrier previously announced its plans to acquire Ryan Reynolds’ MVNO brand for $1.35 billion. Whe...
This was announced on the earnings call yesterday, but here's an official article about it.
Un-carrier Matches Lowest Ever Q1 Postpaid Phone Churn and Surpasses 5 Million High Speed Internet Customers While Returning $4.3 Billion to Stockholders in Q1
Some pretty good numbers. Over 5 million home internet users, and best cash flow of the big 3.
I have no clue why, but i am not able to load http://feder8.me/p2pool/ on fennec 124.2.0 (android) but it loads fine on firefox focus 122.0, tor browser 13.0.12 (android based on firefox 115.9.0), and firefox desktop 125.0.2.
Can anybody else see if it's doing the same thing? Because I'm wondering if the desktop Firefox and the mobile Firefox are formatting in different ways when it retrieves the AAAA record from the DNS or something?
T-Mobile’s scalable broadband and wireless growth engine combined with EQT’s infrastructure expertise will leverage Lumos' fiber platform to deliver broadband services to more Americans
Woa, this is a big step
With the prevalence of SIM swap scams, it’s high time that carriers finally do something about them. It looks like T-Mobile is addressing this concern. The Mobile Report recently obtained a document that discusses the upcoming changes T-Mobile has in store for approving SIM swaps. The document reve...
T-Mobile's proposed $1.35 billion purchase of Mint Mobile is facing mounting delays. Now, a T-Mobile MVNO called Lycamobile has launched a public campaign against the deal.
Something makes me guess this isn't really gonna go anywhere.
How would you go about doing this? As an example, if you loaned someone 167 monero to buy a car and expect them to pay you back in 7 years like a bank does you would be requesting 167xmr*6.02% (to counter xmr inflation) for a total of 177.053xmr. 177.053xmr/84 (months in 7 years) would be 2.107xmr a month. At the moment that is fine, but if the usd price of monero rises and the borrower is being paid in usd then they are going to default and you will loose the xmr. The only way I could see to counteract this would be to lower the Monero payments per month, but then that would take even longer to be repaid.
Delta Air Lines announced it has named T-Mobile as its preferred mobility partner, uniting America’s most awarded airline with America’s most awarded 5G network. Over the span of this long-term agreement, Delta will move more than 60,000 lines to T-Mobile and deploy a T-Mobile 5G hybrid network at t...
On #Monero's 10th birthday i think it is also important to look at the #Bitcoin genisis block.
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
Thank you for all your great work #Satoshi. I hope wherever you are, you are proud to see the results of your work.
Top advisers said to be ‘actively debating’ move in order to bolster US exports
Talk about an excellent thing for Monero
SIM swapping issues continue to be a problem that many consumers experience everyday. Despite the numerous warnings that carriers send out to their customers, scammers continue to come up with new ways they can victimize people. Recently, The Mobile Report shared that a bad actor is using employee ...
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