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A widespread cellular outage swept across the United States on Thursday, leaving millions of AT&T customers unable to make calls, send texts, or access the internet. While AT&T reported that three-quarters of its network had been restored later in the day, disruptions persisted for some users as the company worked to fully resolve the issue.

An association of small shareholders has filed a class action lawsuit against Telekom Slovenije, Slovenia’s leading telecommunications provider, over what it argues are unwarranted unilateral price hikes over the past five years. It is planning similar suits against other providers.

Airlines across the world, including the long-haul carrier Emirates, rushed on Jan. 19 to cancel or change flights heading into the U.S. over an ongoing dispute about the rollout of 5G mobile phone technology near American airports.

Alphabet Inc's Google has launched more affordable versions of its Pixel smartphone at about half the price of its current models, and dropped an exclusive U.S. distribution deal with Verizon Communications Inc, signaling a major shift in the tech giant's hardware strategy.

FBI, CIA, and US National Security Agency officials have advised Americans not to use the Huawei and ZTE smartphones because they believe they are a security threat.

According to CNN, the heads of the three agencies have expressed their views during the hearings before the Senate Special Intelligence Committee and the House of Representatives of the US Congress.

US telecom AT & T announced plans to launch a "true 5G network" by the end of this year, CNET reported on Tuesday. With this, the operator hopes to overtake other industry competitors planning their 5G networks in 2019.

Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, in a disclosure that attorneys said sharply increased the legal exposure of its new owner, Verizon Communications Inc, Reuters reports.

Verizon has taken over Yahoo, completing a $4.5 billion deal that will usher in a new management team to attempt to wring more advertising revenue from one of the internet's best-known brands.

Verizon is expected to lay off around 2,100 workers after concluding its acquisition of Yahoo. The cuts will come from duplicate jobs in its AOL unit which will be combined with Yahoo to form a new company called Oath.

Yahoo confirmed on Jan. 9 that chief executive Marissa Mayer will quit the company's board after its merger with Verizon.

Mayer is expected to remain with Yahoo's core business, which is being bought by the U.S. telecom titan.
 Yahoo is selling its internet operations as a way to separate that from its more valuable stake in Chinese internet giant Alibaba.