Category: Mobile Phone Service
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The iPhone Upgrade Program Would Pay for Itself, If Customers Could Switch to Pre-Paid Mobile
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe most significant part of the recent announcement of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus was the introduction of the iPhone Upgrade Program. This is because it allows iPhone customers, for the first time, to lease unlocked iPhones directly from Apple, finance them through Apple1, and get away from the two-year subsidized…
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Samsung Anti-Theft Proposal Reportedly Not Accepted by Leading Mobile Carriers
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe New York Times is reporting that AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint rejected Samsung’s proposal for a kill switch for network use of high end smartphones that have been stolen. According to the report on The Bits blog: … the carriers don’t think a so-called kill switch is the right way to…
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Adding a Third iPhone to An Existing Post-Paid “Mobile Share” Wireless Plan
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe other day I was explaining to a friend how my son Jimmy ended up with the iPhone 4S that used to be my personal phone. I thought that this explanation might be helpful to our readers who are considering a similar purchase. Kathleen and I looked at the economics of…