Verizon Wireless is launching its first prepaid unlimited phone plan on Thursday, with voice calls, text messaging and Web access for $50 a month.
If you're a longtime AT&T iPhone user whose unlimited data plan was grandfathered in when AT&T stopped offering unlimited plans last year, a brand new twist on your plan might seem like a pretty significant limitation after all.
Few people would say they actually enjoy contacting their wireless carrier for customer service. But if you have a contract for your cell phone, you'll probably get slightly better service, according to a new survey from J.D. Power and Associates.
To control costs and increase flexibility, more and more U.S. mobile users are choosing no-contract plans (month-to-month or prepaid) for cell phone service.
Brennan Stehling's phone looks just like an iPhone, but his bill is nothing like the ones most smartphone customers get in the mail each month.
Shares of Sprint Nextel rallied 4% in early trading Wednesday after the wireless provider posted its first quarterly gain in wireless customers in three years.
Find deals on everything from garden supplies and groceries to cell phone plans and school supplies.
Are you looking for an easy way to reduce your monthly budget? Look no further than your cell phone bill.
HLN money expert Clark Howard discusses with a caller the pros and cons of bundling cable TV, phone and Internet service.
The prepaid cell phone market has finally hit the U.S. in a big way as economically strapped consumers flock to inexpensive pay-as-you-go services. The result will likely mean that big cell phone providers may be forced to slash prices on contract service plans to keep consumers from defecting.
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is buying Helio LLC, a struggling cell phone carrier that was founded to bring the advanced features of South Korean phones to the U.S. market
A teen's family is suing Virgin Mobile for using her picture, posted on Flickr.com, in an ad campaign.
At first blush, telecom flameouts SunRocket and Amp'd don't have a lot in common. (SunRocket shut down early last week; Amp'd's Web site says the company is "potentially suspending" U.S. operations July 31.) Amp'd is a wireless operator that targets teens and young adults, SunRocket delivered phone calls using Internet Protocol (IP) technology. Its intended audience: Bargain seekers who wanted the cost savings of VOIP service without the perceived complexities of a service such as Skype.
Kyocera may be better known as a maker of hip cell phones for Virgin Mobile such as the Marbl and the Cyclops, but it has also churned out a number of Bluetooth accessories in the past.
Who's advertising on mobile phones? Mobile phone companies. And mobile game makers. And purveyors of ringtones and other applications for cell phones.
Right about now, the number of mobile-phone subscribers in the United States is closing in on 225 million - a number equal to 75 percent of the population.
The top guns at Walt Disney Co. had every reason to think they had a winner when they launched a wireless service, Mobile ESPN, on Super Bowl Sunday earlier this year.
People are becoming increasingly dependent on their cellphones. According to Dan Schulman, CEO of cell operator Virgin Mobile, one in five will interrupt sex to answer their phone.
Penny advocates gained an unlikely supporter Wednesday as Britney Spears' husband, Kevin Federline, came out in support of the smallest unit of the U.S. currency system at an event sponsored by cellphone carrier Virgin Mobile.
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You still loaded up on tech stocks? You may feel some pain today bucko! (see Dell below.) Hey you should own Thai stocks instead ... that market just hit a 27 month high!
It takes consistent profits to qualify for an IPO these days. Even solid companies are waiting longer before trying, and many just sell to big corporations instead. Here are nine tech companies that seem likely to go public in the near future. These nine could be some of the movers and shakers in the new tech boom, and investors should keep an eye on them.
The board of Virgin Mobile said it's rejecting U.K. cable operator NTL Inc.'s $1.4 billion offer, but majority owner Richard Branson on Thursday said a deal isn't far away.
These days, companies from EarthLink to 7-Eleven all want to offer their own cell-phone services. But building one, on the networks of major carriers like Sprint, can cost as much as $300 million. ...
I MUST SAY THAT I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED IN RICHARD Branson. After all this time as one of the world's highest-profile entrepreneurs, he's only now beginning to deal in the world's two most precio...
My mobile lifeupdated: Tue Sep 28 2004 05:57:00
I'm not a huge fan of technology and I sometimes wonder whether it has had such a big impact on our lives. But one thing that has changed the way that I do business is the mobile phone.
Mobile phones have become an essential business tool for many workers, but an explosive growth in junk mail targeted at mobile users could undermine their effectiveness.
Business 2.0: Take The Number And Runupdated: Sat Nov 01 2003 00:01:00
A reckoning is coming to the cell-phone business. Forget about 3G, mobile gaming, and other supposedly disruptive technologies; on Nov. 24 the industry will enter a Darwinian phase that will ration...
Fortune: High-Priced Virginupdated: Mon Jul 07 2003 00:01:00
Virgin Mobile is pushing my buttons. The company's new pay-as-you-go wireless plan, coupled with the Audiovox 8500 flip phone, is aimed squarely at teens and twenty-somethings, and not at squares l...
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