Ah, Black Friday: The time of year when carriers and retailers fall all over themselves to outdo each other’s phone deals. It’s also the time of year when you see some of the hottest phones available with killer deals and discounts, and midprice phones that get even cheaper. Here are the best deals for AT&T, …
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Sprint this week revealed a management reshuffle in the wake of its failed merger deal with T-Mobile. Overall, three Sprint executives are leaving the company and seven will no longer report directly to CEO Marcelo Claure, the Kansas City Star reported Monday. The two companies were rumored to merge for years. But, earlier this month, Sprint and T-Mobile announced they called off …
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T-Mobile is celebrating Black Friday a week early, but after seeing its deal we can’t complain. Starting Friday Nov. 17, anyone who buys a new flagship phone from T-Mobile can get another phone of equal or lesser value for free — through a rebate — after adding a line of service. You can’t buy just any phone, but the ones …
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T-Mobile now offers 1-gigabit-per-second mobile networks in 430 markets, an expansion it hopes will help it woo subscribers away from Verizon and AT&T. Today’s mobile networks are powered by a technology called LTE (Long Term Evolution), and T-Mobile has brought an updated version called LTE Advanced to 920 US markets, it said at a press conference Thursday. In nearly half …
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The days of aggressive bargains from your wireless carrier may be over. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure said at an investor event that the company will hike prices in the next quarter. Claure didn’t specify which plans would see an increase, and a spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. It’s the latest move by the carriers as the …
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AT&T won’t have the Galaxy S8 Active market cornered for long. Samsung announced on Tuesday that the more durable version of its Galaxy S8 are coming to T-Mobile and Sprint. T-Mobile: Nov. 17 online and Nov. 22 in select stores for $820 off-contract (you’ll be able to buy it on two plans). T-Mobile is also promoting the phone with a …
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There will be no happily ever after for T-Mobile and Sprint. The nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers, respectively, said on Saturday that they have ceased discussions about a possible merger. Up until a week ago, people in the industry and on Wall Street assumed the two would get together, forming a potentially stronger combined company to take on larger …
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How many drops does it take to crack an iPhone X? According to our tests, just one. Despite its high costs, the iPhone X has a low threshold for pain. In our drop test, the $1,000 phone cracked after one drop, even as Apple argued the iPhone X was “designed to be durable.” So, you might want to get a …
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Sprint and T-Mobile have nixed their merger. In a brief joint statement Saturday, the companies said they were “unable to find mutually agreeable terms.” The move wasn’t a surprise. A Monday report by Japanese publication Nikkei said Sprint’s parent company, Japan-based carrier SoftBank, planned to break off merger talks because of a dispute over ownership of the combined company. The …
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The marriage between T-Mobile and Sprint may be over before it even begins. Sprint’s parent company, Japanese carrier SoftBank, plans to break off merger talks, according to a new report from Nikkei. The publication cited a dispute over ownership of the combined entity. SoftBank may approach T-Mobile’s parent company, German carrier Deutsche Telekom, as early as Tuesday to end the …
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