Another scandal involving the tech giants in the United States erupted. This time, the U.S. Department of justice (U. S. Department of Justice) suspected of the largest wireless carriers incorruptional activities and fraud. Presumably its members were also members of the National organization for standardization.
And all this in order to create artificial obstacles to Internet users when connected to other sources of wireless communication. AT&T and Verizon acknowledged that against their companies has opened an investigation, but, according to them, it is only «a small disagreement«.
Particularly interested in controller technology eSIM. With this feature you can create on the phone a virtual SIM card, which is sewn into the device at the stage of its production. Many modern smartphones can read the access keys with compact electronic devices after which start to maintain the desired wireless network. Appeared in the summer of 2017, is a program started to capture the market of mobile devices.
Investigators believe that the representatives of all three organizations: at&T, Verizon and employees of the group according to US standards, set up eSIM technology so that mobile devices prefer to use a network of certain companies. In the end, even if the neighborhood has free access to the network, not the fact that your device connects to it in the first place.
The news hit the AT&T, the largest telecommunications conglomerate in the world, at the most inopportune moment. And all because of the fact that this player of the market of wireless communication is already involved in another trial. The plaintiff is the U.S. Department of justice, which may subsequently deny a transaction for purchase of a conglomerate of AT&T, media companies Time Warner.
At the same time, according to financial experts, because the charges have no Foundation, then combine them into a single court case, no one will. Amid reports about the beginning of the investigation in this case, the stock companies have shown a tendency to cheaper.
