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Customers are turning to Sprint again. In fact, they’re starting to look to the nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier over stalwarts like AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The company said it added 405,000 net new post-paid subscribers — people who pay at the end of the month and tend to be more loyal. Of that total, 368,000 …

Sprint has announced a limited-time discount on its unlimited data, talk and text deal. For the next four days, new subscribers will be able to get a new contract for $50, with the ability to add an extra line for $40 more, or even further lines for $30 each a month beyond that. The Sprint offer is usually $60 a …

You get only one chance to make a first impression. If that’s the case, AT&T may have dropped the ball with many customers who signed up for its DirecTV Now streaming TV service. The telecommunications giant saw its service choke under the demands of its users, marking an embarrassing start for the company. It was bad enough that T-Mobile CEO …

Celeb-owned music-streaming service Tidal is getting a boost from a major US carrier. Sprint announced Monday that it is buying 33 percent of the service, which is famous for being backed by rapper Jay Z. Buying a third of Tidal will allow Sprint to offer the service, as well as artist content not available elsewhere, to all 45 million of …

The idea for the Women’s March on Washington to protest Donald Trump’s presidency started as a Facebook post, but for anyone actually at the march on Saturday, sharing their experience on social media during the event was nearly impossible. The wireless networks ground to a halt for much of Saturday as hundreds of thousands of people marched in Washington DC …

Depending on who you ask, this is either a new age for unlimited data or the end of a really good ride. Verizon and AT&T are playing hardball with legacy unlimited data customers, people who signed up for all-you-can-eat data in the early days when it was cheap, and never gave it up. AT&T said on Tuesday that it would …

When T-Mobile has held an Un-carrier event to shake up the industry, consumers have typically applauded the outcome. Then came this past summer and Un-carrier 12. In what could arguably have been its biggest move, the company said it was switching to a single unlimited-data option. For most people, the internet on their phone IS the internet, T-Mobile CEO John …

Four years into its turnaround, T-Mobile is celebrating another big year in customer gains. CEO John Legere on Thursday bragged about the wireless carrier’s success at adding new customers and offered a glimpse at subscriber growth results for the fourth quarter and all of 2016. The company held a press conference at CES 2017 in Las Vegas to announce its …

T-Mobile‘s bombastic CEO, John Legere, brought out his crystal ball to offer some bold predictions for the wireless industry in 2017. Speaking at the company’s CES press conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Legere rattled off eight possibilities for 2017. These predictions include everything from big cable companies entering and quickly exiting the wireless market to the unseating of three …

Paying an extra $5 to $11 per month for month-to-month phone insurance might sound tempting — especially now that the big wireless carriers have ditched contracts and subsidized phones, and you’re paying upfront for a new iPhone 7. But it’s not that simple. First of all, month-to-month phone insurance isn’t the great deal it sounds like — that relatively low …