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Jan

30

2012

Verizon Employee Training Doc Reveals Details of Shared Data Plans

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by Stacy Bruce
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A while back we told you about Verizon’s plans to start offering shared data between members of a family plan. That means all devices enrolled under one family plan will eventually have the option to dip out of one pot of allotted data and according to a leaked screenshot acquired by Engadget, eventually might be [...]

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Jan

7

2012

No, Sprint Wont Throttle Your data — Unless You’re Roaming

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by Stacy Bruce
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Some of you may have heard that Dow Jones Newswire recently claimed that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said that they throttle the top 1% of data users sending the interwebs into a huge ranting session. Why would Hesse admit to data throttling when they claim to offer unlimited data to its customers? Well, it seems that Dow [...]

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Nov

15

2011

Sprint Announces New Data Pricing For Non-Smartphone Devices

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by Stacy Bruce
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Sprint has recently decided to change their data plans for tablets and mobile broadband/hotspot in order to remain competitive with other mobile providers. It seems like Sprint has been tweaking its plans a lot lately and this new line-up has its ups and downs. All new changes went into effect today and only apply to [...]

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Sep

27

2011

Sprint is staying with unlimited plans and will launch LTE network in early 2012

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by Robert Nazarian
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Everyone is wondering when Sprint is going to drop their unlimited data plans, but don’t look for any changes now. Sprint Chief Technology Officer Stephen Bye says there are no plans to change anything. “There’s clearly a cost to support unlimited,” Bye said, but added that not every unlimited subscriber is a high data user [...]

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Aug

11

2011

T-Mobile will start charging for overages on 200MB plans

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by Robert Nazarian
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The above image shows us that T-Mobile is making a change with the 200MB data plan in that they will no longer throttle when a customer goes over the limit, but instead charge for overages. This is a complete change in T-Mobile’s data policy of never charging for overages. This is the lowest data plan, [...]

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Aug

1

2011

Samsung profits decline; Will stop reporting shipments of smartphones and tablets

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by Robert Nazarian
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Samsung reported earnings for the 2nd quarter 2011 and came in as expected, but were down. Revenues were up 4% year-over-year to 39.44 trillion won ($37.63 billion), but its consolidated net income declined by 18% to 3.51 trillion won ($3.35 billion). Telecommunications showed the most growth as revenues rose 45% to 11.69 trillion won ($11.15 [...]

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Jul

26

2011

Samsung Nexus S 4G GRJ90 Update Dashes Free Hotspot Hopes For Sprint Customers

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by Andrew Greenfield
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We all knew it was coming. Sprint is usually considered the most lenient or customer friendly carrier in the big 3, but asking for free wireless tethering was too much for even them to let slide. The newest OTA being rolled out for the Nexus S 4G fixes a lot of radio issues people were [...]

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Jul

15

2011

How Much Do You Rely On Cloud Synchronization?

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by Joe Sirianni
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It’s quite funny how my perception of on board data and Internet connections have changed over the years.  Back no more than five or so years, in my Windows Mobile days, I can recall deeming it extremely vital that all of the data, pertinent to my productivity, required being absolutely 100% on my device.  The [...]

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Jun

29

2011

Get Faster Speeds on the Samsung Galaxy S II using AT&T

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by Jesse Bauer
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Yes, another Samsung Galaxy S II story even though most of us still have to wait it out to get one in these parts! It’s such a great device though, we can’t help it! Developers must feel the same way because here’s another hack you can do on a Galaxy S II using AT&T to [...]

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