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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 […]
T-Mobile On A Roll: Aims to Close Coverage Gap This Year?!
T-Mobile has been bragging this week about new independent reports heaping praise on the Uncarrier’s customer satisfaction, and especially upon its network. First up was the latest tracking survey from Nielsen Mobile Insights showing T-Mobile continuing to maintain a slight lead over Verizon in overall customer satisfaction – an honestly impressive achievement considering that T-Mobile was […]
Huge Auto-Download Windows 10 “Anniversary Update” Coming August 2nd
Windows users – brace yourself for a huge download! As we first warned about before Windows 10 was released last July – one of the major new “features” in Windows 10 is that Microsoft promises that it will never be out of date. Past versions of Windows earned a reputation for viruses and malware in large […]
[Updated] Verizon Update: Three Way Assault Underway on Unlimited Data Plans
September 19, 2016 ALERT: Customers using their unlimited data plan in a T1114 home router have begun receiving disconnect letters from Verizon if they don’t switch to a ‘compatible plan’. This appears to be happening even to folks in contract. We are monitoring this closely, and deep in research to learn more. We do not yet know how this […]
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