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AT&T announces new smartphone data plans

by Chris Rawson (Jan 18th, 2012)

AT&T has announced new smartphone data plans, outlined below and effective January 22. This is the first significant update to AT&T's smartphone data plans in a year and a half, aside from AT&T's inclusion of an additional 2 GB of data per month for tethering customers. We've provided ...

Verizon now cracking down on jailbreak tethering and apps

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 10th, 2011)

Verizon is now blocking customers from tethering for free on their data plan. For years, savvy smartphone owners have used hacks and software to connect their laptop or tablet to their phone's mobile broadband connection without paying the additional US$20 monthly charge for tethering. Until ...

3 Sweden offers half-price sale on iPhone 3GS contract

by Steven Sande (Aug 4th, 2011)

Tired of expensive mobile phone contracts? Maybe you should move to Sweden, where mobile provider 3 Sweden is offering a half-off sale on a two-year contract for an iPhone 3GS. The new pricing makes a "3 Surf" package 99 krona or about $15.36 a month, with a more capable "3 Pott" package ...

AT&T offering free month of iPad data service

by Steven Sande (Mar 15th, 2011)

Have a new iPad 2, or even one of those dusty, slow and fingerprint-smeared original iPads? If you have the AT&T 3G model, the mobile carrier wants you to try out "the Nation's Fastest Mobile Broadband Network" for free for one month. According to an email making the rounds to AT&T ...

AT&T intros new postpaid plans for the iPad 2 and other tablets

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 3rd, 2011)

AT&T introduced two new postpaid plans for tablets, a category that includes the upcoming iPad 2. Unlike prepaid plans, which require customers to buy data allotments upfront, these new plans can be added to a customer's current monthly cellular bill. This new postpaid option is ...

Verizon to drop unlimited iPhone data plans

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 1st, 2011)

During the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference on Tuesday, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo confirmed that Verizon will be moving to tiered data plans as early as this summer. Speaking about the unlimited data plan available with the iPhone 4, Shammo said, "Everyone knows that isn't ...

WSJ: Verizon confirms $30 unlimited data plan - for now

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 25th, 2011)

Verizon will offer a $30 unlimited data plan, the Wall Street Journal confirmed this morning, similar to the original plan that AT&T offered when the iPhone was originally introduced. This comes after a couple weeks of speculation. "I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot," said Lowell ...

WSJ: Verizon iPhone will offer unlimited data

by Michael Rose (Jan 9th, 2011)

We've been wondering for the past day or so what the distinguishing features of the Verizon iPhone might be. Will it come in colors? Aside from VZW's respectable network and CDMA technology, how will the iPhone experience on Big Red be different? If the Wall Street Journal is right, there'll be a ...

iPad 101: Conserving your 3G data use

by TJ Luoma (Jun 28th, 2010)

Since I brought home my 3G + Wi-Fi iPad a little over a week ago, I've been running in Airplane Mode with Wi-Fi enabled to avoid using cellular data. Otherwise I kept getting a prompt (shown here) asking me if I wanted to setup an account, which I didn't want to do. Fortunately, there is another ...

Original iPhone owners can also keep their unlimited data with iPhone 4

by TJ Luoma (Jun 16th, 2010)

Remember the original iPhone and its wicked-fast EDGE connection? Turns out being an early adopter has some value after all. Original iPhone users have been paying $20/month for unlimited 2G data and 200 text messages per month. Since AT&T is no longer offering new unlimited plans, I assumed ...

Data usage sticker shock: How I learned to freak out when my daughter used my iPhone 3GS

by Erica Sadun (Jun 4th, 2010)

I tend to be a pretty light data user. As the chart here shows, my monthly data consumption rarely exceeds the 200 MB mark. After all the events of this week, with AT&T announcing its new, and quite limited, data plans I decided to hop over to my iPhone account page and see how I was doing in ...

Orange UK announces iPad Wi-Fi + 3G data plan pricing for UK

by Steven Sande (May 7th, 2010)

They may have a hung parliament in the UK, but at least they know what to do about iPad data plan pricing. Fast on the heels of Apple's announcement of iPad availability in a number of international locales, we've heard from Orange UK about what they'll be charging iPad Wi-Fi + 3G owners for data ...

iPad 101: Managing your 3G data plans

by Erica Sadun (Mar 12th, 2010)

Much as I love AT&T's prepaid services, their interactive system for purchasing feature packages... well, it kind of sucks. I can't count the number of hours I have spent on their 611 purchase line trying to get the chirpy fake human at the other end (no, seriously, the robot is very cheerful ...

Rogers allows iPhone tethering in Canada for no extra charge until 2010

by Jason Clarke (Jun 19th, 2009)

While US iPhone users are stuck waiting for AT&T to get their act together, Rogers in Canada has stunned iPhone users by not actively trying to screw users right out of the gate as they did when announcing the data plan pricing for the iPhone last year. After a high-profile backlash, Rogers was ...

Drop your iPhone data plan, keep voice

by Erica Sadun (Nov 16th, 2007)

Sick of paying $20 a month for EDGE? Want to save $240/year? TUAW reader Josh tipped us off to his iPhone News post that reveals that you can now remove it from your plan. If you rarely use EDGE and live around ubiquitous WiFi (like I do), this is a great way to save some money. I gave this a try ...