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AT&T and FTC Finally Settle – $60 Million Payout For Deceptively Throttled “Unlimited” Plans
Way back in 2014 (when the Mobile Internet Resource Center was still new!) we covered a story about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) suing AT&T for deceptively selling “unlimited” data plans that were in practice being hard-throttled after just 5GB of usage a month. This pressure from the FTC forced AT&T and other carriers to […]
H20 Wireless Enables Personal Mobile Hotspot on Unlimited (30GB) Phone Plan
H20 Wireless, an MVNO that utilizes AT&T service in the background, has added personal mobile hotspot capability to their ‘Unlimited’ Phone Plan. Personal Mobile Hotspot is a feature on a smartphone that allows you to share its data connection with other devices as a Wi-Fi hotspot or tethering via a USB cable. Like many unlimited […]
T-Mobile Prepaid Adds New ‘Simply Prepaid Unlimited Plus’ Plan Offering 10GB of Highspeed Hotspot Data
T-Mobile’s direct prepaid division, T-Mobile Prepaid has added a new unlimited plan to their current phone/tablet plan line-up: T-Mobile Simply Prepaid Unlimited Plus. This new prepaid plan ‘unlimited’ iteration is priced at $60/month offers unlimited voice, text, on device data – and 10GB of mobile hotspot data. After 10GB of mobile hotspot data is used, […]
T-Mobile Home Internet – $50/month Unlimited LTE – But Is It RV Mobile Friendly?
After six months of testing, T-Mobile has expanded its trial Home Internet program by putting up a new website and creating a waiting list for customers to sign up. In early 2019, T-Mobile started testing this LTE-based home-internet service to a limited number of invite-only subscribers. This service was specifically targeted at providing broadband service […]
Visible Introduces Party Pay – Reducing Cost of Unlimited Verizon Plan to As Low as $25/month
Visible, a prepaid subsidiary of Verizon, today has launched and announced their new way for groups to save money on their already low $40/month unlimited prepaid smartphone plan. They’re calling it Party Pay, and it while it might sound similar to family plans – there are some major differences that make this an incredibly flexible […]
AT&T Announces New Smartphone Plans – Unlimited Starter, Extra, and Elite
Update 11/21/2019: Elite Plan is live today, the article below is updated with this information. AT&T announced some upcoming changes to its postpaid smartphone plan line-up yesterday, including one plan retirement, the introduction of two new plans and a tease for a third new plan. (Elite plan is live as of November 21, 2019!) Additionally, […]
StraightTalk Enables Mobile Hotspot on Unlimited Data Plans
StraightTalk is a TracFone brand that provides prepaid, no-contract phone service on the Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile networks. While they have offered data-only plans for mobile hotspot devices for years, their smartphone plans have never officially included the use of personal mobile hotspot. Last week however, they snuck the feature into their $55/month unlimited […]
T-Mobile Promises Nationwide 5G – By The End of 2019?!?
T-Mobile made a surprisingly bold 5G announcement as part of a new smartphone press release issued yesterday: T-Mobile’s 600MHz spectrum, also known as LTE Band 71, will offer 5G service nationwide by the end of 2019 – providing 5G coverage for 200 million Americans. This will put T-Mobile light years ahead of the other carriers in […]
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