Light Reading Recap: Week ending August 20

Last week's telecom news highlights included all the damage, and damage control, surrounding T-Mobile's recent hack and data breach. We also ponder why cable operators are suddenly very popular mobile service providers and whether smaller cable operators will join the fray.

Here are the stories we mentioned in the video:

• Hack could cost T-Mobile millions, analysts predict
• T-Mobile admits breach after epic hacking claims
• T-Mobile confirms it was hacked
• T-Mobile hacked again
• Is it time for smaller cable ops to enter the mobile fray?
• Cable taking 10% of all post-paid wireless gross adds in US - analyst

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— Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading