With T-Mobile grabbing a lot of headlines for its no-contract phones, AT&T is launching a new brand of its own focused on that segment. Aio Wireless (pronounced Ay-Oh) is launching in three cities — Houston, Orlando and Tampa. Plans range from $35 to $70 a month, and devices offered include smartphones from ZTE ...
T-Mobile and MetroPCS Merger Complete, Becomes ‘T-Mobile US’
on 5.1.13
T-Mobile and MetroPCS have successfully closed the merger both wireless carriers set out on last year. Confirmed in the newly-merged company's fact sheet and investor page, the deal pairs T-Mobile USA's 34 million subscribers with the near 9 million tallied by MetroPCS. The Associated Press first reported that the merger ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – April 26, 2013
on 4.26.13
T-Mobile just changed the way customers can buy new phones, and Verizon is following suit. Under a two-year contract, Verizon used to let you upgrade your phone after a mere 20 months. Verizon would re-up you for another two years, you’d get a shiny new toy … it was a win-win all around. But the company got rid of that ...
T-Mobile: iPhone 5 Launch Was ‘Gangbusters’
on 4.15.13
T-Mobile finally began selling the iPhone 5 early on Friday, and it seems as though all that pent-up consumer tension has resulted in some promising sales for the carrier. “Today has been gangbusters for T-Mobile,” CMO Mike Sievert noted to AllThingsD. Naturally, Sievert wouldn’t discuss just how many iPhones were ...
T-Mobile Will Give You a Free iPhone 5 if You Trade In an iPhone 4 or 4S
on 4.10.13
After a long wait, T-Mobile will finally start selling the iPhone 5 this Friday. To sweeten the pot for people (and to encourage people joining up with Magenta), T-Mobile will be accepting old iPhone 4 and 4S phones for the price of a brand new iPhone 5. That is, if you trade in an iPhone 4 or 4S to T-Mobile, you won't have ...
T-Mobile Added 579,000 New Accounts Lasts Quarter
on 4.4.13
T-Mobile USA late on Wednesday released some preliminary first-quarter results that it says show its turnaround efforts are starting to take hold. The company said that its total customer base grew to 34 million in the three-month period, an increase of 579,000. It still lost nearly 200,000 contract customers, though ...
T-Mobile to Give Unlocked iPhones LTE on Friday
on 4.2.13
T-Mobile is reportedly going to be sending out carrier updates to its customers on April 5 whereby it will enable LTE and Visual Voicemail to their unlocked iPhones. The release of this update will come days before the carrier network will be launching its no-contract, LTE-enabled iPhone 5. As first reported by TmoNews, the ...
New AT&T iPhone Jailbreak Reportedly Gives Access to T-Mobile’s LTE
on 3.28.13
Itching to get an iPhone 5 for T-Mobile but unwilling to wait for Apple to release unlocked iPhone hardware compatible with T-Mobile’s 1700MHz AWS LTE band? Then you may want to check out a new jailbreak tweak that purportedly lets you latch onto T-Mobile’s recently launched LTE network using your AT&T iPhone 5. ...
Shelly Palmer Chats with Jim Blasingame on the Small Business Advocate Show
on 3.27.13
Shelly and host Jim Blasingame talk about the future of mobile computing, what small business mobile strategy should look like and an important small business lesson from T-Mobile. Listen now through the widgets below! Find interviews with Small Business experts on the Small Business Advocate show Find interviews with ...
T-Mobile’s Financed Phones Are Locked Until They’re Paid Off
on 3.26.13
T-Mobile sounded the death knell of contracts and phone subsidies on Tuesday at its Un-carrier event in NYC, but it is maintaining another unpopular practice in the mobile industry: locking phones. Customers who buy a device from T-Mobile through one of its financing plans (for instance, the iPhone 5 can be had for $100 up ...
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