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Smartphone upgrade rates fall as market matures [Updated]
For years, if U.S. smartphone owners wanted a newer device, they had to wait until they were eligible. That’s because the cost of the phone is often subsidized through overpriced monthly voice and data...
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Verizon unveils Edge, its own fast-phone-upgrade program
Verizon followed T-Mobile and AT&T Thursday, laying out the details for its own program to let customers get early smartphone upgrades. Unfortunately, it’s more like AT&T’s program than...
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• NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking – Google uses cookies to track its users’ activities on the Net. The NSA figured out it can piggyback on those cookies to help identify...
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Price war! AT&T offers new family plan, cuts per-line cost [Updated]
AT&T on Sunday will dramatically cut prices for the family version of its Mobile Share wireless plans, a response to growing competition in the wireless service market kicked off by aggressive...
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How will loss of carrier subsidies affect iPhone 6 sales?
Wireless carriers are working hard to wean their customers off voice and data plans that subsidize the cost of new handsets. Following T-Mobile’s lead, they’ve introduced plans that unbundle hardware...
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