Network Carriers for Prepaid Smartphone Plans
When it comes to prepaid mobile phone services, you really do not need to go with one of the major carriers. Sure, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all have prepaid services, and while you are...
View ArticleHow to Unlock Your Postpaid Phone
Last week, President Obama signed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which makes unlocking your phone from your cell carrier legal. This is great news if you are getting out of...
View ArticleGet Out Of Phone Contracts With No Fee
Phone contracts suck. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that statement. You basically sign your life away for two years and hope that the service you agree to pay for works in the areas where...
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Cellular One Closing in Wyoming, Montana
Cellular One has announced that it will be shutting down services in Wyoming and Montana as of August 31, 2014. This will affect all MVNOs that use Cellular One’s service in those states as well....
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Prepaid Coverage Maps Compared
We’ve talked about it before, but there is a huge difference between postpaid coverage and prepaid coverage. Networks usually boast about their area to postpaid customers but the prepaid segment...
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Verizon MVNO Coverage Maps Compared
While most MVNOs share the prepaid network of their primary carrier, some of them skimp on coverage to cut costs, and very few of them offer roaming in areas with no network. Out of curiousity, I went...
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Cross-Network VoLTE in the Works
Only a few months after several of the main carriers launched their own VoLTE service for making and receiving calls using 4G networks, AT&T is reportedly working towards VoLTE cross-network...
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MVNO vs. MNO : What’s the Difference?
If you’re getting into the prepaid market, then you have two primary kinds of companies to deal with: MVNOs and MNOs. But, what are they, and which one is better? What are MNOs and MVNOs? Before you...
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Sprint Finally Falls to Fourth Place
If you’ve been following the main Network Carriers during the last year or two, then you are probably aware that T-Mobile and Sprint have been engaged in a full-on battle over subscribers. T-Mobile,...
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Plan or Phone… A Contract is a Contract
I predict that sometime in the not-so-distant future, contracts will no longer be available for service plans. All plans will be no-contract and give customers the illusion that they can switch...
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Sprint to Shutter WiMAX in November
In April, Sprint confirmed that it would be shutting down its WiMAX network in the first week of November. While Sprint’s WiMAX network didn’t really have all that much coverage or widespread adoption...
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Best AT&T MVNO Plans
Next to Verizon, I think that everyone can agree that AT&T has one of the most complete networks. While AT&T’s prices aren’t quite as astronomical as Verizon’s, it is still a little on the...
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Which Carrier Has the Best Coverage?
Marketing is a pretty powerful thing and for your average customer, trying to decide which company and which network is best can be complicated. After all, they all boast that they have the “fastest”...
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