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T-Mobile promotional package to include free tethering January 25

By Sam Koutroulakis
on 18 Jan, 2012

A bundled mobile hotspot will be included in select T-Mobile data plans January 25. Though only available in the 5GB or 10GB data packages, the mobile hotspot included normally costs an additional $19.98 per month. They will be termed as the Unlimited-Premium 5GB and Unlimited-Ultra 10GB data feature bundles.

AT&T tweaks data plans, gives us more for our dollar

By Cory Gunther
on 18 Jan, 2012

AT&T has apparently started a restructure of their mobile data plans and have done a bit of tweaking. My title is a bit misleading and so our the prices. While we'll be getting more for our dollar, we will also be paying slightly more even if we don't need it -- and there's nothing you can do about it. AT&T is nudging the price of all their plans up a notch but are giving us a little extra data in return.

Verizon CEO confirms family data plans coming in 2012

By Cory Gunther
on 7 Dec, 2011

While many family plans are available to share minutes and text messages the option to share data across the entire group is still not available. I'd have thought we'd see this already but apparently not. This week at at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, Lowell McAdam, CEO at Verizon had a few updates regarding the matter. He notes that it only makes sense for family plans to be able to share data and have a single bill and that after 2 years of work toward account-level pricing, Verizon may finally be ready.

AT&T expands 4G LTE network with 6 new markets November 20th

By Cory Gunther
on 14 Nov, 2011

The news from AT&T just keeps getting better and better today. Along with the announcement of the 4G LTE Galaxy Tab 8.9 moments ago we are now hearing they are also expanding their 4G LTE market to 6 new cities. Starting on the 20th AT&T will be upgrading multiple networks to their blazing fast 4G LTE speeds bringing the total to 16 markets, or 70 million US customers.

Verizon double data promo gets more details

By Cory Gunther
on 7 Nov, 2011

In cased anyone missed it, Verizon is starting a double your data promotion tomorrow. Basically if you sign up and pay for 2GB of smartphone data a month, they'll be nice and give you 4GB for the same price -- take that AT&T. The deal goes live tomorrow and is available to both new and current Verizon Wireless customers and we now have a few additional details regarding this "Double Data" deal.