In what seems like a frontal assult on MetroPCS and Cricket, T-Mobile has quietly rolled-out a customer loyalty program: If you’ve been with T-Mobile for at least 22 months, you can signup for a $50/month nationwide voice service.
This type of pricing would be an interesting run on MetroPCS and Cricket, which offer all-you-can-eat fixed pricing, [...]
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T-Mobile Gunning for MetroPCS and Cricket?
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Site Planning · T-Mobile · Texting
No, I can’t hear you on Inauguration Day
January 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Reporting on the massive cell phone congestion during today’s inauguration of President Obama, the Associated Press reported that call traffic was up 500% from normal for several carriers.
Big surprise.
The carriers are asking people wanting to transfer photos from their phone’s camera to wait to let the data traffic drop back to normal levels.
To read the [...]
CTIA 2 DC vistrs..Pls txt..dont call.
January 19th, 2009 · No Comments
In a copyrighted story appearing in the January 19, 2009 issue of WirelessWeek, Monica Alleven reports that that the wireless carriers in D.C. are expecting record-breaking crowds for the Obama inauguration, and with it big-time network congestion.
The CTIA suggests that visitors in D.C. text, rather than make voice calls, to help reduce network overloads. As [...]