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There are more variables than ever to consider when signing-up for cell phone service. New shared plans offered by AT&T and Verizon are changing the economics of how individuals and families access voice, data and texting services. Additionally, as 4G phones become commonplace, understanding wh ... Full Article »
Most cell phone plans cost consumers hundreds if not thousands of dollars per year for voice, texting and data services. Yet the major cell phone carriers are still making our lives difficult by forcing us to pay for things that we don’t need, or deal with applications that we don’t want. Rates ... Full Article »
For U.S. mobile carriers, the Apple iPhone is a bit of a double-edged sword, and brings with it a number of positives and negatives. On the one hand, it’s popular and draws lots of customers to networks: for AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, the first quarter of 2012 saw several million iPhone activat ... Full Article »
AT&T CEO Stephenson: We were wrong about unlimited iPhone data There are still at least a couple aspects of the AT&T iPhone deal sealed more than five years ago that tick off AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. Specifically, Stephenson regrets how the enabled data hogs to feast on unlimited da ... Full Article »
U.S. cellular carriers are reporting that Apple’s iPhone has taken the lead in the smartphone market in the country in the first quarter of 2012, despite reports that suggest the contrary. According to a story from Business Insider, all three iPhone-carrying wireless companies – that’d be Ver ... Full Article »
Cellular carrier Sprint was late to the party in terms of picking up Apple’s iPhone, but the No. 3 carrier in the U.S. had an ace up its sleeve when it started carrying the iPhone 4S last year: unlimited data plans. Both AT&T and Verizon had discontinued unlimited data plans for smartphone cu ... Full Article »
Though the next iPhone is yet to be announced, it’s still expected around October this year. It will likely sport a new design and carry the iPhone 5 moniker. Last year, Sprint joined AT&T and Verizon in offering the iPhone 4S to customers. One advantage for new iPhone users on Sprint is that ... Full Article »
AT&T announced last week that it would begin unlocking iPhones for customers who had fulfilled their two-year contracts with the company, allowing them to leave AT&T and activate the device on any network that supports the internal technology, such as T-Mobile. It was a pretty big deal, pre ... Full Article »
Rumor has it that Foxconn has received a big new order of iPhones and is looking to hire new workers to make sure it can fill Apple’s request before the launch of the next generation of the company’s smartphone later this year. According to SlashGear, a news report out of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China ... Full Article »
Users who were able to snag the new iPad this weekend and enjoy its new and improved Retina display and blazing fast 4G LTE cellular capabilities might have had a rude awakening: that 4G LTE connection eats up data in a hurry. On the one hand, that’s probably pretty obvious. A faster connection ... Full Article »
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