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How The iPhone Saves Money For Businesses (And Why Android Can’t)

everyone-iphoneA big challenge for businesses and organizations is cost management, particularly in the current economic climate. Many companies are trying maximise their budgets and that’s one of the big factors pushing the BYOD trend. Where BYOD isn’t feasible, however, businesses may still have the...

Sprint offering up to a $100 discount to select upgrade eligible customers

Sprint is showing its loyal customers some appreciation in the coming weeks with SprintFeed informing us starting Feb. 5 select customers will receive a discount up to $100. The discounts will come in $25, $50, and $100 and will be offered to select “upgrade eligible customers that are at high risk of leaving Sprint” via...

Review: Republic Wireless and its $19/month cell service

Republic Wireless is an upstart taking on some of the biggest behemoths in American industry—the major cell carriers—armed with WiFi as its main weapon. Republic keeps costs low by encouraging the use of WiFi o......

Sprint Releases An Official App For Managing Your iPhone’s Plan

Screen Shot 2012-01-30 at 2.48.00 PMSince carriers aren’t allowed to install their own crapware on iPhones the way they do on other smartphones, their forced to release their own apps on the App Store. There’s myAT&T for AT&T customers and My Verizon Mobile for...

AT&T: iPhone made up 80% of smartphones, 66% of all phones sold last quarter

AT&T sold 9.4 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, but 7.6 million of which were iPhones, the company reported today. According to those numbers, the iPhone made up a whopping 80 percent of AT&T's smartphon...

Apple Q1 results show why the iPhone doesn’t have LTE—yet (Updated)

Apple released its iPhone 4S without high-speed LTE capabilities amidst a sea of high-profile LTE Android handsets. While technophiles complained about lack of support for the next-generation wireless standard, there are mu...

Apple Expected To Ask Carriers Pay More As iPhone Sales Continue Upward

As iPhone sales continue to climb, U.S. carriers should expect Apple to also require increased subsidies, one observer writes. Verizon could pay nearly 28 percent more in 2012, with Sprint and AT&T also facing double-digit hikes in payments for the popular smartphone. According to...

T-Mobile: We Didn’t Get The iPhone Because Of Our Unique 3G Band

Apple’s iPhone is now available on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon in the U.S., but T-Mobile customers are still waiting for the popular smartphone to come to them. According to the company’s CEO, Philipp Humm, the reason the device still hasn’t arrived is T-Mobile’s unique...

Reports suggest 4th quarter iPhone sales very good

iPhone sales are almost always good, and when Apple reports 1st quarter sales on January 24th, all the signs point to some really excellent numbers. Earlier this week, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo reported 4.2 million iPhone sales, which doubled the co...

Sprint: Unlimited still means unlimited

Sprint is walking back comments from CEO Dan Hesse on Thursday about Sprint throttling data speeds of its heaviest data users. At a conference Thursday, Hesse clearly stated Sprint was reining in bandwidth for its greediest smartphone customers, but Sprint maintains unlimited remains unlimited.

There are limits to Sprint’s unlimited plan, after all

At an analyst conference, Sprint CEO let slip a change in Sprint’s data policies that could have a big impact on iPhone and other smartphone customers lured in by Sprint’s unlimited plans: the carrier has been throttling back speeds to the heaviest consumers of smartphone data.