AT&T is making a few small but important prepaid plan revisions

There's an all-new AT&T prepaid plan, priced at $50 or $40 with AutoPay, including 8GB of high-speed data. Also, heftier multi-line discounts, and a larger mobile hotspot bucket for the "Unlimited Plus" option.

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Cricket’s LG Fortune 2 is a dirt-cheap Android Nougat phone with mediocre specs

The LG Fortune 2 only seems to have that ultra-low $99.99 price point going for it, running Android 7.1 Nougat and featuring overall subpar specs by 2018 standards.

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Port in your number to MetroPCS, and you can get two free months of unlimited service

Technically, you have to pay for your first two months of unlimited MetroPCS service before receiving $100 back, but free money is always a good deal.

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Celebrate Cricket’s birthday by choosing from a long list of respectable $19 phones

The Samsung Galaxy Halo, LG Stylo 3, X charge and ZTE Blade X Max are just a few of the phones available at $19 a pop from Cricket for those who switch to the carrier for its upcoming birthday.

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Entry-level Moto E5 Play/Moto E5 Cruise rendered en route to Verizon and Cricket

The Verizon and Cricket-bound Moto E5 Play, aka E5 Cruise, doesn't look like much at a first glance, but one particular design choice and a presumably ultra-low price point may make it quite appealing to the masses.

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MetroPCS picks up Moto E4 at ‘everyday’ price of $49, completely free with network switch

If you thought the Moto E4 was affordable on Verizon, Amazon or Republic Wireless, check out this MetroPCS launch deal. It's almost too good to be true.

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AT&T Prepaid officially takes GoPhone’s place, sign up now and get two months free

AT&T Prepaid is the logical new name of the carrier's service previously known as GoPhone, with new lines eligible for two free months (of the first 12).

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Virgin Mobile is now all about iPhones, and its unlimited service costs $1 for a full year

Virgin Mobile has nothing but iPhones on sale starting today, which you can activate on an unlimited plan that's basically free for the first year.

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AT&T GoPhone customers can get unlimited data (with caps) for $60 a month

The best AT&T GoPhone monthly prepaid plans still cost $40 and $60 respectively, getting big upgrades from 4 and 8GB high-speed data to 6 and unlimited.

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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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Verizon terminates low-cost prepaid plans, charging $45 and up for monthly smartphone service now

No cellular data? No more Verizon prepaid service, as Big Red chooses to strike back at AT&T’s recent GoPhone plan add-on improvements in unusual fashion, pulling the plug on entry-level smartphone and basic phone options.

While existing users shouldn’t be impacted by the controversial changes, new VZW prepaid account signers can no longer opt for unlimited talk and text, plus Wi-Fi-only internet access, at $30 a month.

Instead, you’ll have to either cough up $45 every 30 days, and get a 2GB high-speed allotment, as well as always-on data, or pay an extra 15 bucks for a grand total of 5GB LTE web surfing. Both smartphone plans of course include unlimited US talk and text, unrestricted Mexico and Canada messaging, plus mobile hotspot support, while $60 also hooks you up with unlimited voice communication to America’s southern and northern neighbors.

If for whatever reason you’re still thinking of activating a dumb phone on Verizon prepaid, the lone monthly basic plan standing sets you back $30, unlimited talk, text, mobile web and all. Previously, you could elect to cut your bill in half, settling for just 300 talk and text units.

At the end of the day, AT&T’s revised GoPhone pricing structure is a little lower, but Verizon’s prepaid device roster ranges from new iPhones to Pixels, Galaxy S7 Edge, Note 5, Moto Z Play, HTC Desires, and the Moto G4 Play.

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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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