T-Mobile

T-Mobile sounded the death knell of contracts and phone subsidies on Tuesday at its Un-carrier event in NYC, but it is maintaining another unpopular practice in the mobile industry: locking phones. Customers who buy a device from T-Mobile through one of its financing plans (for instance, the iPhone 5 can be had for $100 up Continue Reading →

I’m trying to make sense of T-Mobile’s new wireless contract pricing plans. And I’m having a hard time. If you didn’t hear, T-Mobile got rid of the two-year contract system that every other major carrier locks its customers into, instead opting for a month-by-month payment system. Plans start at $50 for unlimited talk and text, Continue Reading →

It’s official: T-Mobile has the iPhone. On Friday, April 12, the magenta-tinged operator will start selling the iPhone 5 nationwide and the iPhone 4 and 4S in select markets. T-Mobile now not only has the iconic device it has so long craved, but it’s offering it with compelling service pricing. Under the new plans unveiled Continue Reading →

7-Up might be the uncola, and T-Mobile is, in many ways, now trying to showcase itself as the “un-Carrier” in a wireless world crowded by three bigger dogs than it. The company, currently sitting in a festive fourth place behind AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint (even with the proposed merger between it and MetroPCS, which awaits Continue Reading →

While T-Mobile is more than a bit late to the LTE game, the company confirmed on Monday that their new network would be launching by the end of the month. Where it would launch, however, was kept under wraps. That’s the idea, at least. Thanks to some data mined out of a third-party app, we’ve Continue Reading →

T-Mobile executives haven’t beat around the bush when expressing their distaste for smartphone subsidiaries. In December, the company’s CEO spoke to investors about alternatives paths the carrier could take to compete with Verizon and AT&T. According to an internal memo obtained by TmoNews, the company could announce its “uncarrier” plans as soon as March 4th. Continue Reading →

Listen to this. T-Mobile just beat every other U.S. carrier bringing HD Voice to market, delivering a radical improvement in call quality for everyone carrying an HTC One S, Samsung Galaxy S III, or Nokia Astound phone. And wait, it gets better—it might work with iPhones. “It’s a very noticeable enhancement to the voice call,” said Continue Reading →

Dish Network reportedly plans to begin selling mobile phones out of Blockbuster’s brick-and-mortar stores. Even more shocking, Blockbuster still has brick-and-mortar stores. Blockbuster had recently started selling phones on its website under the name “Blockbuster Mobile,” partnering with Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile amongst other carriers. The online venture must have been somewhat successful since, according Continue Reading →

If you have AT&T and T-Mobile, it was easy for a thief to steal your phone and then pop the SIM out to resell it to someone else. Sprint and Verizon are more difficult, unless they are new LTE devices with a SIM, because they are provisioned through the carrier. Thankfully, that all changes now Continue Reading →

The old days when budget-conscious T-Mobile users could sign up for a cheap 200MB data plan have come to an end. TmoNews reports that T-Mobile has upped its data plan requirement for new customers to 2GB, meaning new T-Mobile subscribers will have to pay at least $20 per month for their data plans instead of Continue Reading →