The people behind Paul Mitchell hair products and Patron tequila are launching a mobile carrier. ROK Mobile will be a smartphone-centric virtual operator, but it’s not focusing on data. It’s focusing… Read more »
FreedomPop is offering unlimited voice and text and 1 GB of LTE data for $20 a month. Once that 1 gig is used up, you stay connected, but you’ll be knocked… Read more »
Truphone’s international service zone just got 58 countries bigger. Its business customers can now travel from Europe to China to Mexico while tapping the same bucket of minutes, text messages and gigabytes. Read more »
FreedomPop is coming to iOS in many ways. It’s started selling refurbed iPhone 5s, activating its service on older iPhone models and offering an over-the-top iOS app to lure in potential… Read more »
In an FCC filing, Comcast confirmed that it’s investigating the possibility of creating a mobile service that would lean heavily on its growing Wi-Fi hotspot network for most of its capacity. Read more »
E-Plus is offering up a cheap prepaid SIM-card plan that exempts WhatsApp traffic from its data plan, effectively creating a mobile service that leans primarily on over-the-top messaging for communication. Read more »
A report from The Information has revived the rumor that Google wants to become a mobile carrier. If it’s true, here’s they type of network we think Google would build. Read more »
For $45 a month you can get unlimited talk, unlimited text and absolutely no data. Sprint’s experimenting with the idea of a smartphone that can only connect to the internet through Wi-Fi. Read more »
Capitalizing on the growing angst over privacy in today’s surveillance state, virtual operator FreedomPop has started selling a smartphone that routes all data traffic over a secure VPN and uses 128-bit encryption… Read more »
The race to the basement in mobile plan pricing continues with new contestant UppWireless. The MVNO is offering plans as cheap as $15 a month for 1 GB of data and… Read more »