Verizon announced its new Edge device payment plan, with no contract where the smartphone full price is divided into 24 months and the first upgrade with trade-in can be made in six months as long as the 50% of the phone has been paid for.
Verizon reported:
The iPhone 5 on T-Mobile when all costs are figured was the best deal around for an iPhone and still ...
AT&T is starting to offer new plans this week that include new mobile data sharing options and a prepaid option for AT&T Wireless Home Phone starting March 22.
AT&T Home Phone allows customers to take their landline phone number and switch to wireless.
As a result of an FCC investigation, AT&T agreed to pay $700,000 for forcing grandfathered pay-as-you-g0 subscribers to full data plan. The company is also refunding customers.
Some consumers who replaced phones under warranty or insurance, or who moved were switched to the monthly data plans, even though AT&T had said the “grandfathering” policy would continue to apply.
Now that many carriers have switched to usage billing for data, it would be nice to find out if the usage billing is accurate. According to a new study by UCLA computer science PhD researcher Chunyi Peng, billing is not only accurate, after her team studies to major wireless companies.
The carriers accounted for 50% of mobile subscribers, but were not disclosed. Using a data logging Android app, they compared the actual data usage to data billing.