Cricket revives cheaper unlimited plan with more restrictions, hotspot add-on also available

There are now two Cricket Wireless unlimited data plans, the newer of which starts at $55 a month with a permanent 3 Mbps speed cap.

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Verizon giving 3 months of free cellular service to Apple Watch Series 3 owners

AT&T and Verizon have proudly announced plan prices for the cellular Apple Watch while Sprint and T-Mobile, definitely carrying it, have yet to say.

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Cricket Wireless boosts data allotment on select plans, free phones also on offer for switchers

AT&T subsidiary Cricket Wireless challenges prepaid rival MetroPCS with more value, more data, as well as many free phones for switchers to choose from.

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AT&T GoPhone prepaid plans get more data for less

Sprint has Virgin and Boost Mobile, T-Mobile’s MetroPCS daughter operator continues to contribute to impressive quarterly reports, Verizon’s prepaid department is also on the rise in terms of both plans and supported phones, whereas AT&T keeps strengthening Cricket’s device portfolio while improving GoPhone options and lowering prices.

Ma Bell’s latest batch of prepaid discounts looks permanent too, allowing GoPhone customers to add 3GB data to $60 monthly plans for an extra $20 if a 1 gig supplement at 10 bucks isn’t enough or feels a little steep.

Technically, this top-of-the-line no-annual-contract option includes unlimited everything, but only your first 6 gigs of data are accessible at “high speed”, after which you need to make do with a max velocity of 128Kbps. Or pay up to extend your 4G LTE allotment, available for one plan term rollover.

Meanwhile, the $45 “unlimited” monthly AT&T GoPhone plan will continue to drop speeds after 3GB consumption, unless you sign up for a $10 add-on good for 1 more gig of data, up from 500MB before.

Then you have the $30 plan, which still comes without any sort of data allocation, letting you however buy 250MB instead of 100 for $5. Finally, $2 a day covers unlimited nationwide talk and text, with 100MB data packages setting you back an additional $1.

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Verizon data plans for drones could pave path for off-site remote control

Does this mean that Pocketnow gets to cover drones? Maybe.Current aviation regulations in the US require pilots to remain within eyesight of the machine and in airspace below 400 feet during typical operation of a drone. But that doesn’t mean that the rules won’t eventually change, especially as the “techno-logistical” wars in developed society — ahem, Amazon — aim to bring down costs of delivering the last mile.

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T-Mobile One already ups hotspot speed ante, One Plus brings more perks for $95 a month

It seems T-Mobile’s newly implemented one-plan-fits-all “Un-carrier 12” strategy may have already backfired, but in an unusually prompt answer to customer criticism feedback, even for the always serviceable John Legere, Magenta decided to tweak the terms and conditions before the initial changes were enforced in the first place.As such, you can now look forward to unlimited 3G mobile hotspot ...

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Sprint officially gets the Unlimited Freedom show on the road

Could it be a coincidence that Sprint successfully completed its Unlimited Freedom market trials just as T-Mobile surprisingly decided to pull the plug on data plans altogether in one of the boldest Un-carrier moves yet?We think not, and the Now Network might be trying to beat Magenta at its own game, raining on the ONE parade with an arguably cheaper two-line unlimited everything scheme. For only $100 a month, ...

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T-Mobile lays data plans to rest, going ‘all in on unlimited’ in Un-carrier 12 move

Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have all tried their best in recent months to suppress T-Mobile’s frequent industry-revolutionizing tactics, but while Magenta’s weekly Tuesday freebies aren’t

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