It’s the biggest tech takeover ever. Broadcom is offering about $103 BILLION for Qualcomm, its biggest rival. It’s bound to be a big story for months to come and it’s more than just a story for…
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Four Days. All was right in the cellular world for four days. On Monday I told you that Softbank, the parent company of Sprint, was giving up on plans to merge with T-Mobile. Now The Verge has to…
If you think SolidSignal.com is just for satellite stuff, prepare to be amazed. If you’ve never dug deep into our site, you probably don’t realize that we carry over 30,000 items of interest to amateur and…
There was a time when this D11 receiver was state of the art. Today it looks like a refugee from another time, but there was a time that people lusted after it. It was a faster,…
UPDATED: They listened to your complaints! Check out the revised menu screens in our Summer 2018 review. EVEN BETTER: More changes in our August 2018 update. Get a look at the future of DIRECTV! It’s been…
Don’t worry, there’s no such thing as 8G. Yet. In fact, we’re really still in the 4G world. 5G is still a few years away, and if that doesn’t satisfy the techies, we should expect 8G…
It was only 7 months ago that ESPN announced “notable” layoffs. Well, they’re at it again. DSLReports, who have never been big fans of ESPN, say that another 50-60 layoffs are coming, and this time it may be…
Oh, thank heaven. Even though I’ve railed against a potential Sprint/T-Mobile merger over and over again, I still thought it was going to happen. After all, it seemed just too stupid to avoid. Now it seems that for…
Reaching out to our friends in bars, restaurants, offices and shops out there. Does your DIRECTV hardware turn off after 4 hours automatically? I was aware of this being a problem about five years ago, but…
If you read this blog a lot you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I make fun of Sprint a lot. The company isn’t always easy for a techie like me to like, because they’ve…
Spoiler alert: Yes. It may have been all the rage when Radio Shack put it on the cover back in 1986, but the C-Band satellite, also known as the “Big Ugly Dish,” is really a thing…
Back in 2014, I introduced you to the second-generation GenieGO, which was DIRECTV’s product for transferring recorded shows to your phone or tablet. GenieGO, originally called Nomad, was a device that was really “of its time” and…
In a 3-2 vote yesterday, the FCC overturned a rule that required broadcasters to have some sort of local studios. This rule dates back to the 1930s and the feeling among the Republican members of the…
Bad news if you were hoping that Verizon would beat out AT&T as the best overall communications provider. According to LightReading the company is nowhere near ready to launch a live streaming TV service, and its cable TV service…
You bet we do. Sure, I know you think of Solid Signal as your source for everything having to do with satellite, antenna, and cellular products, but we carry over 30,000 products of all types from…