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T-Mobile Yawns At Verizon’s LTE Advanced Launch, Rolls Out 4×4 MIMO And More
When Verizon made a big splash launching its LTE Advanced network last week, we pointed out that this was actually the launch of a marketing campaign, not a new technology. We noted that T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T have all also deployed LTE Advanced carrier aggregation to various extents, and said: “LTE Advanced is indeed awesome technology, […]
FoxFi Fans: Beware Upgrading to Android 7.0 “Nougat”
Update: The newer tool called PDAnet, from the makers of FoxFi, supports more recent versions of Android. Google’s newest major Android Operating System release, version 7.0 “Nougat”, is beginning to trickle out to the world – and word is spreading that new security improvements under the hood will permanently break the once popular FoxFi application that […]
Verizon Making “Safety Mode” Free – Dropping $5/mo Fee
When Verizon announced the New Verizon Plan in July, one of the core features was “Safety Mode” – an optional feature which eliminated $15/GB overage charges. Instead – once the high-speed data allotment for the month is used up, if “Safety Mode” is enabled your account will get throttled back to glacially slow 128kbps for the […]
Verizon Announces LTE Advanced – 50% Faster in 461 Cities
After teasing the world with a clock on its home page counting down to the start of the next generation of wireless, Verizon this morning underwhelmed by announcing a new marketing campaign promoting “Verizon LTE Advanced”. LTE Advanced is indeed awesome technology, but it is not Verizon exclusive, and it is not new. Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, […]
T-Mobile Revises T-Mobile One, Introduces Unlimited Tethering One+ Plan
T-Mobile went “all in” on offering Unlimited Data less than two weeks ago with the announcement of the T-Mobile One plan – but in the process generated heated criticism by eliminating any included high-speed tethering data. Today T-Mobile is responding to that criticism in a huge way, by announcing: “T-Mobile today proved once again why it’s […]
Verizon and Sprint Based Prepaid Plans with Mobile Hotspot from Boom! Mobile
New plans which may be of interest to mobile internet users include: Verizon- $64.99 – 7GB of hard capped 4G LTE data (plus unlimited talk and text) Sprint- $39.99 – 5GB of hard capped 4G LTE data (plus unlimited talk and text) (UPDATE- 8/31/16) Boom! Mobile, a fairly new MVNO, is offering prepaid plans which may be of […]
Sprint Rolls Out “Unlimited Freedom” Plan, With Some Big Limits
Just hours after T-Mobile rolled out the new T-Mobile One plan this morning, Sprint responded by announcing a major new cellular plan of its own: Unlimited Freedom. The Sprint Unlimited Freedom plan is a price drop from Sprint’s current $75/mo unlimited smartphone plan, and undercuts T-Mobile’s new T-Mobile One plan in two substantial ways. Not only is […]
Un-Carrier 12: T-Mobile Goes All-Unlimited, But Eliminates Included Tethering
UPDATE (8/29/2016): In response to customer criticism, T-Mobile has made some huge changes to the T-Mobile One plan less than two weeks after initially announcing them. Read our news story for the details: T-Mobile Revises T-Mobile One, Introduces Unlimited Tethering One+ Plan T-Mobile hosted a conference call early this morning to announce its latest #uncarrier […]
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