Prepaid Wireless News

AT&T Wants You to Have Data For Free (Sort of)

By Joe Paonessa • 01/07/14

AT&T unveiled a plan today offering businesses the chance to “sponsor your data”. When a business has an ad or app, or a new movie coming out, t...

Next G Mobile Says Goodbye!

By Joe Paonessa • 01/03/14

In case you missed it, Next G Mobile, a former Verizon MVNO, went offline and out of business as of 12/31/2013. This is one of the problems of smalle...

Red Pocket Announces 4g Service Plans

By Joe Paonessa • 12/18/13

Red Pocket mobile announced today they will now offer 4G service (via T-mobile) for data only devices. By 4G we assume they mean HSPA+ which is very...

FreedomPop Offering More Phones

By Joe Paonessa • 11/25/13

Update: FreedomPop is now allowing a small portion of BYOD to it’s network although some users are currently experiencing activation trouble. Some of...

Sprint Blocking BYOSD on MVNO’s

By Joe Paonessa • 11/19/13

Sprint has decided to become even more crappy by not allowing customer’s of it’s various MVNO’s to use certain BYOSD (Bring your own Sprint Device) ph...

Sprint MVNO Karma set to Launch on Sprint’s LTE network

By Joe Paonessa • 11/06/13

Sprint MVNO Karma is getting ready to launch on Sprint’s LTE network. Karma is a unique MVNO in that it’s a data only network and they allow you to s...

Straight Talk Gets The Verizon Version Of Galaxy S3

By Joe Paonessa • 11/04/13

Straight Talk Wireless, one of the only MVNOs to offer service on all 4 of the BIG 4 is now offering the Samsung Galaxy S3 in select markets as one of...