You know, our wireless carriers don’t nickel and dime is enough. How about another fee. But wait a minute. It isn’t AT&T serving the latest slap in the face — it’s Verizon. Beginning April 22nd, VZW will charge a $30 fuck you over “upgrade fee” to upgrade to a new device when re-signing a new contract. Some small saving grace can be found in the fact that if you trade-in your old phone through VZW’s green program you can...
AT&T’s LTE network size may be a pittance compared to Verizon, and their speed might also be borderline molasses slow, but you have to at least hand it to them for continuing to trudge along. Today, residents of St. Louis, Missouri are the newest AT&T customers to be bathed in the carrier’s super speedy LTE goodness. In other LTE news: Staten Island is also getting some attention, with AT&T expanding their LTE network to said borough. Keep...
It has finally happened, AT&T has caved and will start unlocking iPhones for users that have accounts in good standing and that are no longer confined to their 2-year contract. Previously users would have to depend on a software unlock via a Jailbreak, which wasn’t always an option if the phone had been updated. Apple had recently started selling factory-unlocked devices with back in November following the massively popular launch of the iPhone 4S. Once unlocked,...
It appears that VZW has been slyly slugging away on their LTE network. A lot of the time we’ll be sent a boastful (for good reason) PR sheet telling of the latest LTE additions/enhancements/expansions that VZW is rolling out across their network. This time, however, Droid-Life has stumbled upon the latest rollout information before VZW could send it to us. In short: Verizon has a ton of new developments on the LTE front with…new additions, enhancements to...
With the launch of the iPhone 4S this past October, we not only saw Sprint jump on the iBandwagon, but we also saw a Regional carrier in the US gain rights to Cupertino’s mobile powerhouse. 6 months since the launch we now see a second Regional carrier picking up the device, nTelos, which is a Virginia-based wireless company that services the Virginias, along with portions of Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. nTelos currently has around 400k...
Well all knew it was coming: The day in which Sprint would formally announce that they had abandoned WiMAX hardware. Welcome. Today is that day. At a conference held earlier today, Bob Azzi, Sprint’s Senior Vice President of Networks stated that the carrier “will not release any more WiMAX enabled devices moving forward”. Sprint’s 1900 MHz spectrum is now being prepped for the carrier’s ongoing switch to LTE, and the carrier is also in the...
