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Sprint intros new 2GB and 6GB mobile hotspot add-ons, drops 5GB plan

Business And Money Heads up, Sprint customers. It's been revealed that Sprint has decided to cease offering its 5GB/$29.99 per month mobile hotspot add-on, replacing it with a pair of new offerings for smartphone and tablet customers to choose from. Sprint subscribers...

Virgin Mobile intros $40 unlimited talk and text offering for payLo plan lineup

Business And Money Virgin Mobile today took the wraps off of a new plan for its payLo service. The $40 Unlimited Talk and Text plan is exactly what it sounds like, packing in unlimited minutes and texting as well as 50MB of data for $40 per month. The new offering is...

T-Mobile CEO discusses shared data plans, Windows Phone sales and the iPhone

Business And Money Both AT&T and Verizon are prepping new shared data plans that'll allow several devices on an account to share one bucket of data, and last week Verizon made some waves when it revealed that existing unlimited data customers upgrading to a subsidized...

Voyager Mobile goes live days after initial launch delayed by website attack

Business And Money Voyager Mobile was supposed to make its debut last Tuesday, but an attack on its website caused the new Sprint MVNO to postpone its launch. The delay turned out to be fairly short, though, as Voyager Mobile is now open for business. Voyager is a...

ExclusiveWould you consider switching to pre-paid to save money?

4g A few of my recent articles have been about the overall increase in the cost of owning a smartphone. The pocket-sized computers themselves are perpetually being improved, yielding a higher average price tag; new networks are continually being built...

Reader reactionsCan GameStop Mobile last longer than a year?

Business And Money MVNOs, or mobile virtual network operators, aren’t anything new. They’ve been around for quite some time now. They are a strange thing, though, in that they can pop up unexpectedly, without any kind of warning, and...

Sprint offering $100 trade-in credit for old iPhones to put toward iPhone 4S

Business And Money Sprint is a fairly recent addition to the group of carriers offering the iPhone in the U.S., joining the party late last year with the introduction of the iPhone 4S. That hasn't stopped Sprint from selling a number of iPhones, though, and now the...

GameStop Mobile appears as new AT&T MVNO

Business And Money Today has brought with it the second new mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) of the week, and while the latest provider comes with a name some of you may be familiar with, you likely wouldn't have guessed that the firm would be interested in...

Reader reactionsAre you willing to pay more to get the plan and device you want?

4g As interest in the smartphone industry grows, owning one and paying for the service is becoming more and more expensive. New, data-optimized wireless networks are rapidly being built and expanded to accommodate for the millions of new data users;...

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Verizon explains unlimited data situation and how customers can keep their plan

Business And Money Shortly after issuing a brief statement on its data plans, Verizon has now clarified the situation surrounding its unlimited data offerings and what'll happen with them once it introduces shared data plans. In a statement sent to The New York Times,...

T-Mobile intros new no-contract mobile broadband plans ahead of May 20th launch

Business And Money Today T-Mobile took the wraps off of a set of new no contract mobile broadband plans, with data allotments ranging from 300MB to 5GB. The plans will officially go on sale on May 20th and will be available to tablets, mobile hotspots and USB sticks....

Verizon issues statement on data plans, promises a heads-up on share plans and policy changes

Business And Money Yesterday, Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo made some waves when he said that, once data share plans debut this summer, customers with a 3G unlimited data plan will need to switch to one of the new shared offerings when moving to a 4G LTE...

Reader reactionsWhat will you do once you lose unlimited data forever?

4g For six or seven years now, my family and I have had multiple smartphones with unlimited data plans. We originally switched to smartphones during the days of Alltel and were unexpectedly and reluctantly scooped up by Verizon Wireless in the...

T-Mobile's Magenta Deal Days buy one, get one promotion kicks off May 18th

Business And Money After leaking a couple of different times in the past few days, T-Mobile's latest Magenta Deal Days promotion has just been made officially official. Kicking off May 18th and running through May 28th, the Magenta Deal Days promo will give customers...

PopularVerizon to eliminate grandfathered unlimited data plans as customers move to 4G LTE

4g Last year Verizon introduced tiered data plans and ceased offering an unlimited data option to new customers, but existing customers that had already signed up for unlimited data were allowed to keep their bottomless plan. It looks like that'll be...

Sprint to stop offering early upgrades on June 1st, leak claims

Business And Money Pay attention, Sprint folk, because it looks like a Now Network policy change is in the works. According to a leaked document sent to TechnoBuffalo, Sprint is planning to axe early upgrades on Friday, June 1st. Currently, Sprint allows some...

More details on T-Mobile's upcoming Magenta Deal Days promo leak

Business And Money Good news for those of you interested in T-Mobile's upcoming Magenta Deal Days promotion that we first got wind of last weekend, as more details of the sale have surfaced. Some documents sent to our pals at TmoNews have confirmed that the promo is...

Reader reactionsShould Microsoft bring the Zune Pass to other mobile platforms?

Business And Money I had a lot of fun testing the differences between popular subscription music services Rdio and Spotify . While both options have their own pitfalls, there’s no doubt that each service will offer up just enough to attract plenty...

Voyager Mobile postpones launch due to attack on its website

Business And Money Yesterday we learned that Voyager Mobile, a new MVNO operating on Sprint's network, was planning to launch prepaid service this morning. The carrier even had a timer on its website counting down to the debut of its service, but now that clock has...

Reader reactionsVoyager Mobile debuting May 15th with prepaid plans starting at $19 per month

Business And Money In the market for a new prepaid wireless service? Your list of choices will grow by one tomorrow morning, as Voyager Mobile has announced that it'll begin offering its prepaid services tomorrow morning. Voyager is a new MVNO that runs on Sprint's 3G...