Virgin Mobile USA’s PayLo offering is set to expand its entry-level rate plans in connection with distribution partner Wal-Mart.
The service, which runs across Sprint’s network, will offer customers a choice between unlimited domestic voice calling and 50 text messages or unlimited messaging and 50...
Sprint’s Virgin Mobile USA brand rolled out a new entry-level, voice/messaging-only rate plan that breaks from the brand’s traditional focus on cellular data access.
The new plan runs $25 per month and includes unlimited domestic voice calling and messaging, with no stipulation for cellular data...
A day after AT&T Mobility adjusted pricing for its Aio Wireless no-contract service, Sprint countered the move by announcing a price cut for its Boost Mobile offering.
For a limited time, Boost is offering unlimited voice calling, messaging and data services for $35 per month....
Looking to perhaps boost customer interest, through the end of the year Sprint’s Boost Mobile brand is boosting the amount of services available through its International Connect Mexico Mobile Plus package.
The package, which customers to Boost’s Unlimited plan can add for $15 per month,...
At the peak of the mobile virtual network operator fervor we witnessed in the 2005 to 2007 timeframe, common wisdom held that a successful MVNO must have killer content, a highly targeted
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos Holdings announced...
Virgin Mobile USA is set to increase pressure on rival no-contract offerings with the upcoming addition of Apple’s iPhone 5 handset to its lineup.
The device, which will sell for $550 beginning June 28, is set to run across the provider’s Beyond Talk plans...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--Verizon Wireless continued to inch its...
I don’t need to tell any of you, but dang, if that prepaid space is not getting more exciting by the day. I know carriers have been instigating pricing and marketing wars in the no-contract arena for years now,
Not wanting to let rivals get all the prepaid attention, Verizon Wireless this week launched a lower-priced offering designed to tempt those looking for a basic device that they do not plan on talking on very much.
The new plan is priced at $35 per...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--AT&T Mobility this week announced a...
Just ahead of the launch of its iPhone 5, T-Mobile USA is sweetening the pot by offering a trade-in credit for customers turning in legacy iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 models. Those devices would also be presumably coming from a rival carrier as T-Mobile...
Sprint Nextel entered the prepaid LTE space, announcing devices from its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA brands compatible with the carrier’s latest network. Both brands continue to offer devices and services using the carrier’s WiMAX-based service running across Clearwire’s network.
Boost Mobile is set...
In the United States and many other countries, more than half of the population now has a smartphone. And regardless of whether they own a smartphone or a feature phone, most people use text messaging
América Móvil consolidated its dominate position in the U.S.-based prepaid space, announcing the closing on the acquisition of Simple Mobile. The deal, which was announced earlier this year, adds approximately 1 million prepaid customers to América Móvil’s U.S. operations that are centered on the...
Very few of us – and by us I mean humans – are advanced enough to handle more than one chore at any one time. Sure, some of us (you) are more advanced in that we (not me) can actually walk and chew gum
The debate over device subsidies has hit a fever pitch with carriers struggling to make the economies of smartphones jibe with their bottom line. However, a new report from Macquarie Equities Research seems to indicate that as carriers continue rolling out LTE networks and...
Sprint Nextel prepaid subsidiary Virgin Mobile USA looks set to upset the competitive iPhone balance across the mobile space, announcing plans to begin offering Apple’s smartphone later this month with rate plans undercutting rivals.
The carrier said it would begin offering the previous generation iPhone...
Sprint Nextel’s Assurance Wireless sub-brand expanded its subsidized wireless telecommunications offering by adding 250 text messages to its free service offering that previously provided 250 calling minutes or a new plan that provides 500 voice minutes and 500 text messages for $5 per month...
The domestic mobile virtual network operator space has seen its ranks swell as a slightly delayed launch finally took shape and an unexpected retail chain has quietly jumped into the fray.
Having had its scheduled launch delayed last week due to a hack attack on...
T-Mobile USA continued its onslaught of the no-contract market, rolling out new mobile data plans set to be available May 20.
The plans begin at $15 for 300 megabytes of “4G” mobile data transmission for one week across the carrier’s HSPA+-based network. For $25...
An attempt by Voyager Mobile to disrupt the prepaid apple cart took a step backwards this morning as the company’s planned launch of its mobile virtual network operator service was bedeviled by what its website is calling a “malicious network attack” that has forced...
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