Showing posts with label T-mobile. Show all posts
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Friday, 7 March 2014

AT&T's Galaxy S5 Gets FCC Approval, Just Like You Knew It Would (update: T-Mobile and Verizon too)


Samsung already made it clear that the Galaxy S5 would reach AT&T when it launched globally in April. Still, it's nice to know the flagship is on track for an on-time arrival, right? The 5.1-inch phone just surfaced in a fresh set of FCC documents, which show a GS5 variant with AT&T-friendly LTE bands (2, 4, 5 and 17) and support for ANT+ sensors (handy for wireless heart-rate monitors and the like). Predictably, the phone also includes GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS, for when you can't manage a 4G signal. That still leaves lots of questions -- how much will it cost? How good is this thing? -- but we suppose we'll just have to wait until April 11th to find out.

Source:FCC (1), (2), (3)
Via:engadget
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Posted on 23:12
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T-Mobile's Tweaked Simple Choice Plans Come With More Data, Unlimited International Texting


T-Mobile's customer-friendly "Uncarrier" schtick seems to be changing people's minds about the country's 4th largest wireless provider, and it's not done fiddling with that formula just yet. The folks in magenta just announced a slew of tweaks to its Simple Choice plans that make them worth yet another look.

Here's the long and short of it: if you've got T-Mobile's $50 Simple Choice plan, your LTE data and tethering buckets will double in size from 500MB to 1GB (at no extra cost, mind you) starting on March 23. If you're more of a power user, you can shell out an additional $10 per month per line to bring those buckets up to 3GB a pop, and a new $30/month option grants you unlimited LTE data speeds and 5GB of tethering. This does come at a price though: the $20/month tier that gave you unlimited LTE data and 2.5GB of tethering has been rejiggered to provide 5GB of each. Sure, 5GB is a lot of data, but it doesn't hold a candle to what you used to get. Thankfully, if you've already got that plan, it's yours to keep.



"In a couple weeks, every single one of its millions of Simple Choice customers will wake up with more value without lifting a finger," said Mike Sievert, Chief Marketing Officer for T-Mobile. "Who does that?  We do. Because that's what being the Un-carrier means - giving more to you without asking more from you.  I'd love to see our competitors try to follow suit."

Source:T-Mobile
Via:engadget
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Posted on 17:59
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