After its successful iPhone 6 launch, Sprint has decided to experiment more with its new leasing plans. It’s renting just two Android phones for now, but we’ll likely see more to come. Read more »
If you’re buying an unsubsidized smartphone for $100 then you’re probably looking for a budget smartphone plan as well. Republic is offering to connect the Moto E for as little as… Read more »
Ting’s customers may use less cellular data than the national average, but they’re also a paying a lot less each month. That reflects the company’s pay-for-what-you-consume billing model. Read more »
Virgin Mobile is launching a new PayLo option targeted at either the hard-core texter or the hard-core voice user. The catch is you have to choose between one or the other. Read more »
John Legere and his executive team talk to Gigaom about mobile competition in the U.S. and why mobile data is no longer the rare commodity it used to be. Read more »
There are a several similarities between Sprint’s new Framily program and the the multilevel marketing business model of mobile carrier Solavei. But Sprint has adopted the best aspects of Solavei’s model… Read more »
Last year, Virgin undercut the entire U.S. mobile industry by offering one of the cheapest iPhone 4S plans in the business. Next Friday it will do the same for the iPhone… Read more »
Prepaid mobile giant TracFone had a massive quarter, adding 839,000 subscribers and even beating out Verizon Wireless. TracFone didn’t say why, but not coincidentally its Straight Talk brand and partner Walmart… Read more »
Verizon has never been the operator you would associate with the word cheap. After years of focusing on the high-end of the market, Verizon is going after the budget carriers with… Read more »