Apple (Finally) Offers Up A Prepaid iPhone… on Cricket
Cricket becomes the first nationwide carrier to offer a prepaid iPhone, and will offer iPhone 4 & 4S below no-contract pricing on Tier 1 carriers.
New Sprint MVNO Voyager Mobile Launching with $19 Monthly Unlimited Service
A new Sprint powered MVNO announces its debut with $19 and $39 monthly rates for unlimited service in select markets, with a new rewards program that gives out points for talking on the phone
Consumer Cellular Brings AT&T iPhone-Compatible Service Down to $10/Month
Senior focused AT&T MVNO now offers BYOD service for as low as $10 a month, the lowest rate for service in the industry and what it means for the iPhone.
Editorial: Virgin Mobile Needs Better Firmware Update Management
Virgin Mobile is playing to win in prepaid, but they’re burning their most savvy customers in a major way… and people are taking notice. Putting it bluntly, Virgin Mobile is shortchanging their customers on firmware updates, compared to other carriers, and even Sprint’s own postpay brand. It’s not acceptable, it’s wrong, and it needs to […]
We exposed it, you did it: Verizon Removes iPhone Block on MVNO Providers
Verizon Wireless today informed MVNO operators like Page Plus Cellular that it would no longer block the activation of iPhone devices from their networks. PhoneNews.com was the first major member of the mobile media to expose Verizon and Apple’s anti-competitive business practices in blocking iPhone from activation on Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). Currently H2O […]
Cricket Announces New Plans, Devices, Sprint Data Roaming
Cricket has announced a new slate of plans as expected which include all taxes and fees while including data access up to a certain amount per month instead of offering unlimited access, up to 7.5GB per month. In a bid to imitate T-Mobile, once the data caps are reached for each respective allowance on each […]
Page Plus Cellular Responds to Concerns
Note: Answers from Page Plus Cellular are paraphrased. Representatives for Page Plus asked us to not record the interview. Page Plus today responded to the widespread concerns and complaints from consumers regarding many recent issues. Read more to see their side of the story.
Virgin Mobile to Reboot Helio… as Helio
Virgin Mobile has announced plans to retain and return the Helio brand, as a sub-brand of Virgin Mobile. The two companies announced intentions to merge, following EarthLink’s withdrawl from the Helio venture (a joint project of EarthLink and SK Telecom). Both Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) operate using the Sprint network. Helio also signed a […]
Helio Offers Opera Mini, Bypasses Hacks
Helio has begun to offer the Opera Mini web browser to users as a free download on Helio devices. This is yet another chapter in Helio’s ongoing Walled Garden fiasco. Opera Mini gives the user a full web browsing experience on their device. One of the main benefits of the browser is the fact that […]