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Earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador affect Sony, US carriers

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Jules Wang

The planet’s tectonic plates have taken a large share of the world’s attention this week and mobile technology-related firms have had to respond to these events.JapanMajor earthquakes struck the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Thursday and Saturday, just north of the city of Kumamoto. As of this post, rescue missions are continuing and growing in difficulty as time passes. But the business impacts of this tremor may make impact some 5,700 miles away in Cupertino.It comes to Apple’s major ...

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Sprint has you covered if you roam to Cuba

Posted on November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 by Jules Wang

Globetrotters aren’t just tall, athletic people with fancy finesse in twirling basketballs. They’re people who travel across the earth for whatever reason, be it for pleasure or for work. T-Mobile has made multiple moves to support these kinds of people while Sprint has trailed behind the Un-carrier with ...

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EU decides to put an end to mobile roaming charges

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Jaime Rivera

If you’ve never been surprised by a $690 roaming bill like I did once, trust me, you don’t want to know what it’s like. We can’t denny that the ability for cell phones to roam and work in other countries was the stuff of dreams a few decades ago, but that’s until people began seeing the crazy bills for phone calls, text messages and data. T-Mobile has fixed some of that for people in the United States traveling to Canada or Mexico, but the European ...

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International roaming rates go down in Europe starting July 1, 2014

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Anton D. Nagy

If you are based in Europe, chances are that you often find yourself in another country, while your phone picks up a foreign carrier’s signal, and roams. While international roaming costs are still high enough, the European Commission is trying to further lower rates, until, eventually, these will be completely cleared.Starting July 1, European international roaming costs will drop more than 50% from last summer. Data is getting the biggest cut, one of 55.5%, from 45 cents per MB to 20 cents per MB. A text message will cost 6 cents instead of 8, while for receiving a call ...

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