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Sprint Tower Cost-Cutting Leads to Fears of Service Interruptions, Reduced Coverage
It is no secret that Sprint has been struggling. The company has been operating at a loss for six straight years, and last year fell behind the rapidly rising T-Mobile to become the fourth largest cellular carrier in the country. To stop the bleeding – in November Sprint announced plans to slash $2.5 billion in expenses […]
Verizon Announces FreeBee Sponsored “Toll Free” Data
Verizon today announced a sponsored data program called “FreeBee Data” that will allow for participating companies to sponsor websites, apps, downloads, and video clips. Think of it like a toll free 1-800 number for the mobile web – if you see a site or a link tagged with Verizon’s FreeBee logo, your usage will be […]
Karma Neverstop Decides to Keep Speed, But Cap Usage
A couple weeks ago, Karma shocked their customers with an e=mail asking them to provide feedback on what was important to them. After seeing mega high usage on their Neverstop unlimited data plan for $50/month, they had to find a way to reduce usage. Since then they have been experimenting with different speed caps than […]
Windows Security Warning: Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 are Orphans Today
Today (January 12th, 2016) Microsoft is releasing the final security patches for Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10 – as well as a final update for the original version of Windows 8.0. If you are still using these browsers (or Windows 8.0) – do yourself a favor and UPGRADE today. Microsoft announced that this day was coming […]
AT&T Unlimited Data is Back – But Only For DirecTV Subscribers
AT&T has announced today that it will be bringing back Unlimited Data plans! But there is a big catch. To sign up, you must also be a DirecTV (owned by AT&T since July 2015) subscriber, or have AT&T’s U-Verse Cable TV at home. The other big catch: “No tethering or mobile hotspot use. After 22GB of usage, AT&T […]
T-Mobile Expands & Defends “Binge On”
T-Mobile’s Binge On feature allows for unlimited streaming from 38 partner services with usage that does not count against your monthly high-speed data limits, and Binge On also helps stretch your data usage from other video streaming sites to let you stream up to 3x as much video for the same amount of data. What’s not to love, […]
Harbor Mobile Offers Businesses AT&T Prepaid Service With Hotspot/Tethering
During our regular news scan we discovered Harbor Mobile, an AT&T business reseller, who offers affordable AT&T prepaid plans to businesses and sole-proprietors. They announced a sale today on their Facebook Page, knocking a few bucks off their already low prices. They have not shared for how limited of time the pricing is valid for. $22 (regularly […]
Karma Neverstop – Now Claims It’s Not Intended for Extreme Use
Back in November, Sprint network reseller Karma announced their new unlimited Neverstop plan. With the plan, up to 3 devices can connect to a $149 Karma Go dedicated hotspot device, and customers can then enjoy unlimited data usage for $50/month. The limitation of Neverstop is that speeds are capped at a maximum of 5 mbps. Many […]
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