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Helio lowers price on unlimited rate plans

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:44:47 +0000

Is this a sign of things to come? Following on luxury MVNO Voce’s abrupt (and unethical) bankruptcy , Helio has just lowered the price of their unlimited rate plans. The Helio unlimited plan offers unlimited voice minutes, data, and SMS text messages for a new, low price of $99. The price has been slashed from the previous $145 price point, and the new price seems to be a limited affair. The new $99 Helio unlimited plan doesn’t allow device-tethering, but hey, it’s still a good deal for heavy-talkers/data-consumers. Now, what does this price-cut mean for Helio? One way to look at it is that Helio is just trying to expand its customer-base by playing around with rate-plan prices. On the other hand, Helio may be hurting for more customers. When carriers find themselves short on subscribers (and cash), they generally slash prices - which is exactly what Voce kept doing before their network went dark a couple days ago. After all, Helio has to make sure it puts that fresh $70 cash infusion to good use. Helio ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Apple announces rate plans for the iPhone - unlimited data and 200 SMS text messages included!Alltel offers more unlimited calling plans with 5, 20 person My Circle plansVerizon Unlimited Text, Picture, Video Messaging Coming April 15?AT&T offering monster iPhone rate plans with thousands of minutes!T-Mobile gets cheap with new data and BlackBerry [...]

MetroPCS announces the Samsung R410

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:13:37 +0000

Free unlimited calling plans are MetroPCS’s forte, but they just don’t have any youth-oriented messaging phones. As such, MetroPCS has announced that they are picking up the horizontally-sliding Samsung R410 to boost their wireless stable. What’s with the horizontal slider, you ask? Why, it reveals a full QWERTY keyboard for the text-messaging set. Unfortunately, when $35 unlimited calling plans are involved, you’ll have to sacrifice a couple power-features. The MetroPCS Samsung R410 trades a multi-megapixel camera and EVDO data connection for a lowly VGA shooter and 1xRTT data speeds. On the up-side, there’s a bit of stereo Bluetooth goodness to keep you in Bluetooth-headphone-bliss as you lament the absence of a decent data connection. But hey, if unlimited wireless calling on a text-messaging ace like the Samsung R410 is everything you’ve been wishing for, then head on over to MetroPCS and grab your own Samsung R410 for somewhere between $150 and $200. Oh, and unlimited AIM chats, text messages, and internet access will bump up your unlimited calling plan to $50 a month. Actually, for the price and the intended demographic, we’re liking the Samsung R410 more and more. [Via: Electronista ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:MetroPCS goes live in Los Angeles, CA.FCC: Huawei M318 headed to MetrPCSMetroPCS puts in buy-offer to acquire Leap Wireless for $5.12 billionMetroPCS: Leap Wireless keeps rejecting us, we're going to stop hitting on themFCC outs ZTE C88 mid-level phone for MetroPCS

Save some bucks - drop the iPhone data plan

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:38:57 +0000

If you just can’t justify the extra $20 a month that you’re spending for slow EDGE speeds, there’s good news. You can drop the data plan from your iPhone rate plan and save the $20. Of course, you’ll be paying through the nose for every kilobyte that you download from thereon, but if you’re almost always in range of a WiFi hotspot, this could be a great money-saver. Of course, without the iPhone data plan, you’re Visual Voicemail feature will be as good as dead. Such is the compromise that penny-pinchers must make. To give hte data-portion of your iPhone’s rate plan, just log into your online account management - AT&T myAccount. Find the “Add / Manage Features” section and uncheck the box next to the “IPHONE DATA” option. Oh, and keep in mind that you’ll also lose the free 200 SMS text messages - so you’ll be paying through the nose for SMS text messages if you don’t get an additional text-messaging package. We’re definitely going to be holding onto our free SMS text messages, Visual Voicemail, and unlimited EDGE data. But, if you need to save up a bit more dough for the possibility of a 3G iPhone next year, an extra $20 savings every month could be a big help. [Via: TUAW ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:iPhone data plans to surface soonAT&T's data plan for the Apple iPhone may be called the 'iPlan'AT&T launches international iPhone data plans - Data Global PlanStop paying for slow iPhone internet performance - get a phone-only iPhone plan for $40AT&T offering monster iPhone rate plans with thousands of minutes!

Verizon Wireless: When we say "unlimited data," we mean 5GB worth of "unlimited data"

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:01:07 +0000

Hot on the heels of reparations payed to their unfairly terminated data-plan customers and the state of New York , Verizon Wireless has reworked their Terms of Service to specifically outline what they mean by “unlimited data.” By the sounds of it, Verizon’s “unlimited data” verbiage seems to indicate a 5GB monthly data allowance. In other words, your data-plan is “unlimited” until you hit the 5GB limit. Confused yet?You see, Verizon Wireless wants their customers to know that the “unlimited data” plans are intended for mobile use. That means they don’t want you to replace their landline-based broadband solutions with the wireless-flavored EVDO solution - streaming of video/audio and P2P file sharing are out of the question. And, should you exceed the 5GB/month limit on your “unlimited” plan, Verizon will “reduce throughput speeds of any application that would otherwise exceed such speed to a maximum of approximately 200Kbps” - with actual speeds “subject to change.”As long as you aren’t using your mobile phone’s unlimited data plan to stream video or share movies, you should be well within Verizon’s new definition of “unlimited.” But still, be wary of your wireless data consumption. Verizon may just choke your data speeds down to sub-56K modem speeds if you cross that invisible line.[Via: jkOnTheRun ]

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