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by Alex Dobie
May 22, 2013
$54.99 down payment or $599.99 outright
Arriving fashionably late to the Galaxy S4 party is Cricket, with today's news that it'll carry Samsung's latest smartphone from June 7. The p...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 21, 2013
Coolpad continues to stay under the radar and is hoping to make another splash in the low-end market
Coolpad, a name that may not come to mind as a common phone manufacturer, is showing off...
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by Alex Dobie
May 21, 2013
Available from June, no pricing details available yet
Following T-Mobile's announcement yesterday, Sprint-based MVNOs Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile have confirmed that they'll offer a&n...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 18, 2013
New plans available to existing customers now; new customers can take advantage June 6
As an update to a previous blog post detailing changes to its prepaid plans, Verizon stealthily made yet an...
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by Andrew Martonik
Apr 26, 2013
MetroPCS to continue on as a nationwide prepaid brand
GoSmart Mobile, which is T-Mobile's latest nationwide prepaid brand, is confirmed to be sticking around even as the merger with MetroPCS...
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by Andrew Martonik
Apr 16, 2013
Monitoring usage and managing your Ting account just got easier
Prepaid carrier Ting, which is relatively new in the U.S. phone market, has just launched its official account management app in t...
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by Andrew Martonik
Apr 04, 2013
Net customer losses in postpaid; sustained net customer additions in prepaid
T-Mobile has just posted a preliminary report of its customer additions and losses for the first quarter of 2013, and...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 31, 2013
T-Mobile just dropped one helluva big change on us, completely redesigning its plans and how it sells devices.
No matter how simple they are or how you explain them, there are bound to be questi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 26, 2013
Along with a complete restructuring to remove contracts with its 'Simple Choice' plans, T-Mobile is also consolidating its prepaid plans to fall into line. Previously a distinctly separate b...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 13, 2013
Cricket announced today that its latest Muve Music phone, the Engage LT, is available today for $199.99 without a contract. The device is clearly lower-end, which makes sense when considering the pric...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 05, 2013
Sprint is announcing a new program called "Bring Your Own Sprint Device" that is aimed at reducing waste by letting users bring used and inactive Sprint devices to approved MVNO partner ca...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 20, 2013
GoSmart Mobile, a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of T-Mobile USA, is launching to nationwide availability starting today as previously rumored. The new prepaid carrier, which has operated in a...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 08, 2013
Two different T-Mobile MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) carriers have confirmed that they will be offering prepaid LTE service as soon as the network goes live, according to statements obtaine...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 30, 2013
T-Mobile looks ready to start offering its new "GoSmart" prepaid MVNO service nationwide at some point in February. We heard back in early December that T-Mobile was planning to launch a n...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 30, 2013
U.S. Cellular is hoping to compel some users to head over to its network by offering $300 to families that bring along two or more lines and activate a smartphone. The incentive comes in the form of...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 27, 2013
Verizon doesn't put much focus on its prepaid plans, but according to a leaked document obtained by PhoneArena it will be dropping prices on prepaid offerings starting February 1st. Verizon'...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 16, 2013
Cricket has officially put the HTC One SV (read our review) up for sale on its website, bringing this little red beauty to willing customers for $369 without a contract. This decidedly mid-range pri...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 04, 2013
Following some rumors of a new prepaid option, Sprint has confirmed today with FierceWireless that it will be launching the new service under its own brand name on January 25th. Cleverly named "...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 04, 2013
Just a few months after debuting its truly unlimited data plan for contract customers, T-Mobile will begin offering the same service option to Monthly 4G prepaid customers as well. Prior to thi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 20, 2012
Boost Mobile is planning to change its data usage policy to start throttling unlimited data users starting in January. According to a post on its official Facebook page, the Sprint MVNO will throttle ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 13, 2012
Leap Wireless and MetroPCS, both smaller prepaid carriers, are starting to offer handset financing programs for their devices. One of the issues facing carriers that only operate on a prepaid basis ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 07, 2012
There's no shortage of big T-Mobile news out there right now, and this one seems to fit in with what we're hearing the last couple of days. After announcing that it will no longer be subsidi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 27, 2012
We caught a look at leaked press images 2 weeks ago of a device -- the Galaxy Axiom -- that looked to be a rebranded Galaxy S3 Mini destined for U.S. Cellular, and now it looks like the rumors were ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 22, 2012
Virgin Mobile is all about deals for service and handsets, and it's adding some limited-time special deals for the holidays. The Samsung Galaxy SII (S2) has been $70 off since Monday, now just $29...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 19, 2012
If you haven't heard of Republic Wireless, we don't blame you. A new carrier that's been sitting in the ether beta for a while now, Republic is trying to take the traditional model of sm...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 17, 2012
For many people, buying the Nexus 4 will be their first time stepping into several different arenas. First GSM device, first unlocked device, first time using a prepaid carrier. Once everything is s...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 16, 2012
RadioShack is adding to its lineup of entry-level devices that it offers on its self-branded prepaid wireless service today with the HTC Desire C. This pint-sized HTC handset may carry the Desi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 08, 2012
T-Mobile has finally posted its Q3 2012 earnings and they're looking pretty good. We'll start first with the carrier's postpaid contract earnings. On the postpaid side, T-Mobile posted t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 05, 2012
We're eight days away from seeing the new Nexus 4 go on sale at Google Play, and there's a lot of buzz about the value aspect of using it with inexpensive prepaid cellular service. We've...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 30, 2012
The Nexus 4 has a whole lot of features to be excited about -- that is, unless you're on Verizon or Sprint here in the states. For reasons you can probably figure out on your own, Google has dec...
