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T-Mobile is going to trial a $50/month unlimited wireless plan in its San Francisco market. In addition, new subscribers will be offered a $135 rebate for signing up. It’s largely anticipated that the trial will go nationwide in a matter of weeks. Sprint’s Boost unit, a prepaid service based on the Nextel iDEN platform introduced a $50/month unlimited plan just ...

The wireless bundling war continues. Sprint just announced a bundle promotion, ‘Simply Everything Plan + Mobile Broadband,’ which combines unlimited voice calling, sms, email, and web surfing with a mobile broadband card for laptops, which offers 5GB of data transfer per month. The total bundle is priced at $150/month. Sprint is promoting the bundle as a wireline replacement and features ‘cord cutting’ on their promotional microsite. “Cut the cords. ...

Virgin Mobile, the prepaid wireless MVNO, has undercut all wireless carriers with their latest wireless plan. The “Totally Unlimited” plan will launch on July 1 for $79.99/month, and will offer unlimited domestic calling. For an additional $10/month, customers can add unlimited text messaging. The $79.99 plan undercuts most existing unlimited plans by $20. Another appealing aspect to Virgin’s plan is the lack of any contract. Virgin ...

T-Mobile USA announced a new unlimited wireless family plan, expanding on the flurry of unlimited wireless plans of late. The plan offers unlimited nationwide calling (with nationwide roaming and long distance) and unlimited nationwide text, picture and instant messaging (SMS, MMS and IM), for a flat rate of $49.99/month for each additional line added to a primary line of $99.99/month. Customers can add up to four additional lines.

Verizon Wireless announced an unlimited web browsing and email plan for smartphone subscribers. The plan offers access for up to ten separate email addresses and unlimited Internet access. The plan is priced at $29.99/month and available to VZW customers with a qualifying voice plan. Eligible smartphones include the Verizon Wireless SMT5800; the Verizon Wireless XV6800 and the MOTO Q9m. Verizon Wireless BlackBerry subscribers have their own distinct data plans.

Alltel announced that they too will launch a $99/month unlimited wireless plan, joining all the other major wireless carriers who already have one. Branded Freedom Unlimited, Alltel’s unlimited plan basically mirrors other carriers, offering unlimited local and domestic long distance calling. Alltel also remains committed to its popular My Circle plans that allow subscribers to designate 5, 10, or 20 telephone numbers for which they can ...

Sprint matched its competitors and then some by unveiling a $100/month unlimited plan, branded “Simply Everything,” which includes unlimited voice, data, text, e-mail, Web-surfing, TV, music, GPS navigation, Direct Connect and Group Connect services. Sprint has trumped their competitor’s unlimited plans by including data and messaging services in the $100/month unlimited plan. Some analysts are saying Sprint missed an opportunity by taking so long to match ...

T-Mobile joined the wireless unlimited calling party this week, but is now upping the ante with landline calling as well. Their new Talk Forever service complements their recently launched Hotspot@Home service, and provides unlimited domestic calling for $10/month. The new service will only be available in Dallas and Seattle for now. Hotspot@Home routes cell phone calls over the customer’s home Wi-Fi network, ...