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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 […]
AT&T Introduces Mobile Share Advantage Plans – Ending Overage Charges
Following in the footsteps of Verizon’s major plan changes last month, AT&T today announced the new Mobile Share Advantage plan that eliminates overage charges, and in addition adjusts AT&T’s monthly data allotments and pricing. AT&T describes the move this way: AT&T is continuing to simplify pricing with new plans that eliminate data overage charges for our wireless […]
Is Karma Kaput? Does New 50GB Plan Hide Trouble Behind The Scenes?
The unique Sprint-powered MVNO Karma has had an awful year. Karma made headlines late last year when it announced an unlimited data plan called ‘Neverstop’ for $50/month. Though speeds were capped at a modest 5Mbps, this plan generated a huge amount of interest from those desperate for a truly unlimited cellular data plan. It only took […]
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