AT&T announced yesterday that teachers, nurses and physicians will be able to receive a 25% savings on the company’s Unlimited Starter, Extra and Elite wireless plans beginning Friday. First responders, military and veterans were already eligible to receive these savings….
Comcast will continue to provide 60 days of free internet services to new, eligible customers for its Internet Essentials low-income broadband service. The offer had initially been set to expire at the end of this month, but now will be…
The Detroit metro area is the sixth market for the Verizon 5G Home fixed wireless offering. Customers signing up for service get a range of free offerings, including one month of YouTube TV, one free year of Disney+ and three…
There are about 500K PlayStation Vue subscribers up for grabs, as Sony shut down the once pioneering streaming TV service yesterday. Sling and others are pursuing these streaming subscribers and Sling enlisted an old, yet very familiar brand to do…
Verizon is teaming up with Synchrony to offer a co-branded credit card. Synchrony is also the financial institution behind the Sam’s Club co-branded credit card. The companies are still working out the details on Verizon’s co-branded consumer credit card. Together,…
Verizon announced a new video and broadband bundle today called Mix & Match on Fios, which the company claims disrupts the traditional cable TV bundle. The package provides some content choice options and simplifies billing, but upon initial review, we’re…
Certain customers will be able to get a 5G smartphone for free from T-Mobile, which said today that it has turned up 5G service nationwide. Customers who switch from another carrier and trade in an eligible phone will be able…
U.S. Cellular says that it is resetting and updating its branding and elements of its technology and how it interacts with its subscribers. The new strategy will emphasize fairness, the company said. The initiative includes new pricing plans for what…
The first Sprint 5G smartphone – the LG V50 ThinQ — will ship May 31 with a suggested retail price (SRP) of $1,152, the company said today. That’s a bit less than the $1,299 to $1,399 SRP for Verizon’s first…
Verizon today announced 20 more markets that will get mobile 5G service in 2019 and said it will begin taking orders today for a 5G version of the Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone, which will be in stores May 16. The…
Sprint is enabling new customers and customers adding a line to try its upgraded LTE service for 30 days under a new Sprint money-back guarantee. Under the newly announced program, dubbed Total Satisfaction Guarantee, Sprint will refund phone costs, service…
When Windstream won a deal to provide symmetrical gigabit connectivity to the Sugar Land Skeeters baseball stadium in suburban Houston, the carrier got more out of it than the associated revenue. “We let them tell their story in the building,”…