Sprint and T-Mobile have finally sealed the deal to merge and virtual network provider FreedomPop sees an opportunity. The budget MVNO, which has traditionally operated across Sprint’s wireless network, on Wednesday unveiled its new Unreal Mobile service. According to the company, the new carrier is aimed squarely at premium customers. Currently FreedomPop’s plans are geared towards …
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Baby boomers can get a break on Sprint’s unlimited phone service. Sprint is offering people 55 and older cheaper unlimited plans. Josh Miller/CNET Starting Friday, anyone 55 or older can sign up for Sprint’s new Unlimited 55+ plan. Those who qualify will be able to get a single line for $50 a month or two lines for $70. The 55+ …
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Los Angeles will be one of four US cities to get Verizon’s 5G service later this year, the company’s CEO, Lowell McAdam, told CNBC on Tuesday. For the last couple of years, Verizon has hyped its next generation wireless service, saying it’ll be 10 to 100 times faster than the company’s existing cellular network. But the carrier has been cagey …
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Those smartphones we’re always carrying with us? The police have a simple way to turn them into a tracking device without our knowledge. On Thursday, The New York Times revealed that Securus Technologies, a service that monitors calls to prison inmates, has been used by a former Missouri sheriff to monitor people’s phones and track their location. The sheriff, who was …
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Last summer, the US-based company RED — known for its cinema cameras widely used on Hollywood films — grabbed attention when it revealed it would be releasing a phone. The Hydrogen One was unusual not only because RED had never made a phone, but also because the $1,595 titanium device (or $1,195 for an aluminium version) was available for preorder …
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Sony announced its Xperia XZ2 Compact at Mobile World Congress in February, bringing its world-class camera technology to it and its bigger sibling the XZ2. Now, while you can’t buy the Compact from Verizon, you can buy an unlocked version and use it on Verizon’s network. CDMA networks like Verizon and Sprint’s aren’t as plug and play as the GSM …
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Were you planning to buy LG’s new flagship phone, the LG G7 ThinQ, from AT&T? Not so fast — because AT&T won’t be carrying it. Instead, a company spokesperson says AT&T will carry a different, exclusive LG phone instead. Perhaps that’ll be the LG V35 ThinQ rumored a few weeks back? “We offer a strong lineup of devices from LG …
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T-Mobile’s plan to merge with wireless rival Sprint doesn’t even rate a blip on Verizon’s radar. That was Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam’s reaction Wednesday when asked his opinion about the $26 billion deal between the third- and fourth-largest US wireless carriers. “We don’t care, is the answer to that,” McAdam told GeekWire, facetiously alluding to past attempts by T-Mobile to …
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Sprint is looking ahead to its $26 billion merger with T-Mobile as it shuffles top executives and makes its pitch for the merger to federal regulators in Washington, DC. On Wednesday, the company announced CEO Marcelo Claure will become executive chairman while the company’s chief financial officer, Michel Combes, will take over as CEO by the end of this month. …
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For deal sniffers, one of the best parts of watching a new phone go on sale is the deal you get when previous models go on sale. So you may be wondering just how big a change the new LG G7 ThinQ is from last year’s LG G6 and fall’s LG V30 (there’s also the V30S ThinQ that LG announced …
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