The latest US prepaid mobile news from around the web

BestMVNO - Boost Mobile BYOD Double Data Offer Gets You 4GB Of Data For $15/Month Boost Mobile has launched a new double data offer. Customers who bring their own device (BYOD) to select Boost Mobile plans will get double data on that plan for their first 3-month of wireless service. Of course, restrictions...

Prepaid Phone News - HMD Global Reveals Its Latest Entry-Level Phones Nokia has a couple of new entry-level devices that will soon be available in the US. The new phones were introduced early this week, along with HMD Global's first 5G device. The newly announced phones include the Nokia...

Prepaid Phone News - Straight Talk Wireless Unveils New Platinum Unlimited Plan Straight Talk Wireless has just announced its latest phone plan, called the Platinum Unlimited. This new plan comes with the following features: Unlimited domestic calls and texts Up to 60GB of data 20GB of hotspot...

Prepaid Phone News - Verizon Prepaid Now Offering TCL Signa for $80 Verizon has just unveiled its latest smartphone added to its prepaid lineup. The new phone, called TCL Signa, is also the first TCL-branded device to be offered by one the major carriers in the US. Prior to this, TCL...

BestMVNO - Straight Talk Wireless Releases A More Premium “Unlimited” Plan Straight Talk Wireless has added a new phone plan to its lineup. It is a $65 “unlimited” data plan called “Platinum Unlimited.” It offers premium features over Straight Talk’s standard unlimited data plan, the...

Phone Scoop - Verizon Adds TCL-Branded $80 Phone to Prepaid Lineup Verizon today launched the TCL Signa, the first TCL-branded phone to be launched by one of the big three US carriers. Previously, most TCL-made phones offered in the US bore the company's Alcatel brand. Although the Signa is an $80 entry-level phone for Verizon prepaid customers, it marks a major step in TCL's effort to expand the TCL brand in the US mobile market. ..

Coverage Critic - What’s Going On With Smartwatch Plan Prices? As far as I can tell, all of the eight carriers that support cellular service on Apple Watches have the same standard policy: service costs $10 per month. In general, watch service is only available as an add-on (e.g., stand-alone...

Prepaid Phone News - B&H Now Accepting Pre-Orders for Samsung Galaxy S20 FE Although Samsung's newest 5G smartphone has not been officially unveiled, Verizon has already confirmed that it will be arriving in its stores with four color options to choose from. But now, it looks like another retailer...

Prepaid Phone News - MWC 2021 Has Been Moved to June Back in July, the organizers of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) announced that they are considering going digital . Considering the event is slated for March 2021, it looks like the GSMA is no longer confident about hosting...

BestMVNO - Founder Of FreedomPop Appointed As Boost Mobile’s EVP, Changes Are Coming On September 22nd, DISH announced that Stephen Stokols would become the Executive Vice President (EVP) of Boost Mobile. Stokols has a lot of familiarity with the industry. He founded the MVNO’s FreedomPop in 2012 and Unreal...

Prepaid Phone News - Samsung Galaxy S20+ is On Sale Although the Samsung Galaxy S20+ smartphone only launched this year, it has already gotten a reduction in its price. The device remains as the South Korean manufacturer's most recent flagship device under its Galaxy...

Prepaid Phone News - HMD Global Starts Accepting Pre-Orders for Nokia 8.3 5G HMD Global is rolling out the Nokia 8.3 5G smartphone pretty soon. This is the company's first-ever 5G-enabled device that will be available throughout the world. We first heard about this device almost six months...

Prepaid Phone News - Dish Network Names Stephen Stokols as New Boost Mobile VP DISH Network today welcomed a new CEO that will be among those spearheading its Boost Mobile operations. The company announced that tech entrepreneur and wireless innovator, Stephen Stokols, will be joining its executive...

NWIDA - Dish Names new Boost Mobile Boss DIsh announced today that Stephen Stokols will join its executive leadership team. Stokols, who most recently served as founder and CEO of FreedomPop, will serve as executive vice president of Boost Mobile...

Prepaid Phone News - LG Working on Entry-Level Device LG is working on a new smartphone. While this device doesn't par with its upcoming LG Wing, it is an entry-level device that the smartphone manufacturer hopes will be able to bring in revenue for the company. The new...

Prepaid Phone News - Target Running $5 Discount on Prepaid Airtime Refill Purchase Getting a discount is always a good thing. No matter how big or small the discount is, it still counts as something to be happy about. For a limited time period, you can get $5 off on your prepaid airtime refill purchase...

Prepaid Phone News - Red Pocket Mobile Updates Two Annual Plans Red Pocket Mobile has an update on two of its annual plans. The first plan that received an update is the 2GB Annual Plan , which previously cost $229. Now, the MVNO has reduced the price of this plan to $199.99;...

Prepaid Phone News - Boost Mobile Gives an Update to Step Up to Vote Campaign, Introduces New Device Tomorrow is National Voter Registration Day. And since Boost Mobile is active in encouraging everyone to Step Up to Vote , they have given an update on this initiative. This is a move that the Dish Network-owned prepaid...

FierceWireless - Boost founder bucks waves, fights new MVNO battle Not one to remain on the sidelines, Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton is on a crusade to keep the U.S. MVNO business a competitive one...

eBay Red Pocket Store - Price Cut 2GB Annual Plan Now $199.99, Was $229 $16.58/Mo Red Pocket Prepaid Wireless Phone Plan+Kit: UnImtd Everything 2GB LTE

360 Day Unlimited Plan - Any major network Plan includes unlimited talk, messaging and data (first 2 GB at high speed) on your choice of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon networks. Plan includes unlimited talk, messaging and data (first 2 GB at high speed) on your choice of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon networks.

Target - Prepaid Airtime $5 off $50 Sale This week only, $5 off prepaid airtime refill purchases of $50 or more. Includes AT&T Prepaid, Boss Revolution, Boost Mobile, Cricket, Net10, H2O, Safelink, Simple Mobile, T-Mobile Prepaid, Total Wireless, TracFone and Verizon Prepaid at Target. Ends Sep. 26.

eBay - Red Pocket $240 Annual Plan Data Increased to 7GB $20/Mo Red Pocket Prepaid Wireless Phone Plan+Kit: Unlmtd Everything 7GB LTE

NOW INCLUDING 7GB LTE! 360 Day Ultimate Plan Was 5GB. Includes Unlimited talk, messaging and data, 1st 7GB at high speeds. Available on AT&T, Verizon or Sprint network. Was 5GB. Includes Unlimited talk, messaging and data, 1st 7GB at high speeds. Available on AT&T, Verizon or Sprint network.

Coverage Critic - More SpaceX Speed Tests Last month, speed tests from beta testers of SpaceX’s Starlink leaked . This month, a few tests conducted by StarLink itself were shared in a public FCC filing . The results are outstanding:

Test 1

Ping: 19ms

Download...

Prepaid Phone News - Metro by T-Mobile Now Offering Free iPhone 7 If you're still interested in the iPhone 7, Metro by T-Mobile is now offering this device free for switchers. Prior to this change, the T-Mobile prepaid brand sold the device at $29.99. The new promotion, called "iPhone...

Prepaid Phone News - Wave7 Releases Independent Dealer Survey for Q3 2020 Results Wave7 Research , a company that specializes in telecom competitive intelligence analysis, has released the results of its Independent Prepaid Dealer Survey for Q3 2020 . The survey tracked prepaid brand distribution...

Prepaid Phone News - Some Mint Mobile Users Experiencing Data Outage There seems to be a data outage that is affecting some subscribers of Mint Mobile. A co-founder of the MVNO, Rizwan Kassim, has confirmed the problem on a Reddit post. The MVNO doesn't appear to be experiencing the...

Coverage Critic - Data Outage Affecting Some Mint Mobile Subscribers A data outage has been affecting some Mint Mobile subscribers throughout the day. One of Mint’s co-founders, Rizwan Kassim, posted about the issue on Reddit:

An upstream error seems to have caused data provisioning errors...

Prepaid Phone News - T-Mobile Releasing Update for Better 5G Network for Galaxy Note 10+ 5G Users T-Mobile has a new update for users with a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G device. With the new update, T-Mobile promises that its subscribers will have better 5G coverage. They also say that users will have access to their...

Prepaid Phone News - Apple Makes Some Changes to AppleCare+ It's been quite a busy week for Apple. Aside from unveiling its latest devices and iOS 14, they have also made some much-needed changes to its AppleCare+ program. One of the changes that Apple has made is that customers...

Prepaid Phone News - LG Unveils Entry-Level Phone With Military-Grade Durability in South Korea LG has just taken the wraps off of its newest entry-level device. Despite its price tag, however, the phone boasts of a display screen with military-grade durability. The device, called LG Q31, comes with a 5.7-inch...

Prepaid Phone News - Major US Carriers Now Support ZenKey Login Authentication Service Remembering passwords is difficult. But because they are essential, it's important to always remember them and have a strong password. As technology adapts, however, companies have started to innovate the way people...

Prepaid Phone News - Visible Brings Back $100 Gift Card Offer to Switchers Last year, Visible Wireless ran a promotion where they gave away a $100 gift card to customers who switch to their service. And while the promotion ran for a while, it eventually went away. But now, the Verizon -owned...

BestMVNO - iPhone 7 Is Now Free At Metro, iPhone SE Promo Updated The iPhone 7 is now free for switchers at Metro By-T-Mobile . It had been available previously for $29.99 . The iPhone 7 seems to be the featured low-cost Apple device that carrier prepaid brands are using to try and lure...

Visible - It's back! $100 gift card (after 2 months service) when you bring your own phone to Visible Wireless Bring your own phone and switch to Visible. $25 for your first month of service*, plus $100 on us when you bring your own phone and switch.

Coverage Critic - Verizon Expands Connected Device Plans Today, Verizon announced changes to its connected device plans. Verizon is now offering two add-on plans for mobile hotspots and tablets. Most subscribers on Verizon’s unlimited plans are eligible for the add-ons.

Unlimited...

Prepaid Phone News - Visible: Now Offering OnePlus 8 Early this year, OnePlus released its OnePlus 8 series of devices-- the OnePlus 8 and the OnePlus 8 Pro. Although they were available for purchase on OnePlus' official website, interested individuals could also get their...

Prepaid Phone News - Xfinity Mobile CEO Goes into Detail of Their 3-Tier Mobile Strategy In just a short amount of time since it launched, Comcast's mobile service has been able to gain around 2.5 million subscribers. Despite this, Xfinity Mobile CEO Brian Roberts believes that they still have a lot of runway...

xda-developers - The OnePlus 8 is now available from Visible Shortly after the OnePlus 8 Series was unveiled earlier this year, the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro officially went on sale in the US through OnePlus' website, Amazon, T-Mobile, and Verizon. While users on other carriers could purchase unlocked devices from OnePlus' website or Amazon, the lack of carrier partnership meant that users had to pay full price for the device... A 5G phone on a carrier that doesn't support 5G! A 5G phone on a carrier that doesn't support 5G!

Prepaid Phone News - Amazon Launches Newly Rebranded Amazon Kids and Amazon Kids+ Service Amazon made an announcement today regarding its FreeTime and FreeTime Unlimited service. With today's announcement, these services have been rebranded into Amazon Kids and Amazon Kids+. In addition to rebranding the service,...

Prepaid Phone News - LG's New Mystery Device Features Phone With Extendable Screen For some time now, LG has been teasing the LG Wing, its first device under their Explorer Project. This project aims to "discover new ways to interact with mobile devices." But it was only today that LG finally made...

BestMVNO - Pix Wireless Verizon Based Plans Are Being Discontinued Sept 20, Here Are Alternatives Pix Wireless is shutting down its Silver network plans on September 20, 2020. According to a HowardForums post , the provider sent a notification email out to subscribers using the network last week. The notification is...

Coverage Critic - Artificial Hotspot Limits It’s common for cell phone plans to include limits on mobile hotspot data that are separate from limits on overall data use limit. E.g.,

Verizon’s Get More Unlimited offers unlimited regular data but caps mobile hotspot...

FierceWireless - Vestberg: Verizon's network can handle new Tracfone traffic It sounds like Verizon is planning on forcing Trac's AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint network customers to switch to the Verizon network. Ellis expects that the incremental 7M subscribers not already using Verizon's network will be easily accommodated from a network capacity perspective, nothing that those customers over-index in geographies where Verizon currently under-indexes

Prepaid Phone News - Google Sends Out Invite for September 30 Event Google has been teasing the public about two of its upcoming phones-- the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G. And now it looks like the date for the official unveiling has finally been announced. Earlier today, Google sent out...

Prepaid Phone News - AT&T Will Start Selling Motorola One 5G on September 18 A few weeks ago, AT&T announced that it will be offering Motorola's latest 5G smartphone "soon." And it looks like we're finally getting an idea on when this phone will be arriving. Earlier today, AT&T revealed...

Prepaid Phone News - Verizon Wireless Expresses Plans to Purchase Tracfone in $6.25 Billion Deal Verizon Wireless, today, made headlines as it announced its plans to expand its business into the prepaid sector. And how are they doing that? By buying Tracfone , a mobile operator that is considered as the largest...

BestMVNO - Verizon’s Acquisition Of Tracfone Could Be Devasting To The Prepaid Wireless Market Verizon announced that it has agreed to acquire Tracfone , the nation’s largest prepaid wireless provider for a total of up to $6.9 billion. Verizon is paying for the transaction with $3.125 billion in cash and $3.125...

Coverage Critic - Verizon Plans To Acquire Tracfone This morning, Verizon announced plans to acquire Tracfone. The planned deal will involve an acquisition of the Tracfone brand and a bunch of subsidiary brands like Total Wireless, Straight Talk, and SafeLink.

At the moment,...

Prepaid Phone News - Prepaid Phones on Sale This Week: September 14 - 20 Welcome to the latest edition of Prepaid Phone News' Prepaid Phones on Sale this Week feature. Here are the best current deals on prepaid and unlocked phones that we've found online and in stores. This week's Deal...

The Verge - Verizon acquires Tracfone in a deal worth more than $6 billion Verizon is buying Tracfone in a deal worth more than $6 billion, the company announced Monday. The deal means the largest mobile network virtual operator (MNVO) in the US will become part of the largest wireless provider in the country. Tracfone is the largest reseller of wireless services in the US, with 21 million subscribers, around 850 employees, and a network of more than 90,000 retail locations. It's owned by Mexico-based America Movil...

Prepaid Phone News - So This is What the Pixel 4a Barely Blue Color Looks Like Back when the Pixel 4a was just being leaked, there were some reports that suggested Google would be offering the device in two colors-- Just Black and Barely Blue. And while the Pixel 4a has been officially announced,...