The FCC isn’t the only federal agency making headlines fighting for mobile consumer rights this week. The Federal Trade Commission announced this week that it has reached a $40 million settlement with TracFone, the parent company of popular prepaid providers Straight Talk, Net10, Simple Mobile, and Telcel America. The crime – deceptively offering “unlimited” data plans […]
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Field Report: Straight Talk Hotspot
The “Straight Talk” MiFi Hotspots (found for sale for around $80 in every Walmart) can be refilled with pay-as-you-go data plans – as cheap as $50 for 5GB or $15 for 1GB. The good news is that there are no contracts, you can easily buy data only when you need it, and only as much […]