Leap Wireless today announced that Tucson, Ariz., will be its first Long Term Evolution 4G market and serve as the starting point for the company's planned transition from CDMA 3G to LTE 4G services. Cricket said that 90% of its CDMA service footprint in the Tucson area has access to LTE,... - read more

Page Plus Cellular today announced a new plan that gives budget-conscious customers 250 voice minutes, 250 text messages, and 10MB of data for $12 per month. This new plan is called The 12 Plan.

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Page Plus Cellular today announced that it has lowered the price of its Unlimited Talk & Text plan from $44.95 per month down to $39.95 per month. The price is effective starting today for new Page Plus Cellular customers. Current customers will see the price drop reflected on their... - read more

Cricket Wireless today announced availability of the ZTE Memo, a bar-style messaging phone that has a full QWERTY keyboard. The Memo runs Cricket's feature phone operating system, offers 3G data, and incudes a web browser. It also has a 2.4-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera with video... - read more

ZTE today announced a new Android smartphone for the Boost Mobile pre-paid network called the Warp. The Warp runs Androidi 2.3 Gingerbread and features a 4.3-inch display, 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, support for 32GB microSD... - read more

Cricket and Samsung today announced the Transfix, an affordable Android phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard with four rows of keys, including a dedicated number row. The phone is similar to the Acclaim released last year for US Cellular. Its specs include 800 MHz processor, 3.2-inch... - read more

Virgin Mobile USA today announced the addition of two Android handsets to its pre-paid lineup, the HTC Wildfire S, and the LG Optimus Slider. The Wildfire S will be Virgin Mobile's first device from HTC. It was announced earlier this year. The LG Optimus Slider (pictured) is a rebranded... - read more

Virgin Mobile USA today indicated that it is delaying previously stated plans to throttle users who exceed 2.5GB of data per month. Rather than take effect in October, Virgin won't throttle users until some time in 2012.

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In addition to the market expansion announced today, Cricket Wireless also announced new phones that will be able to take advantage of its Muve Music plan. The ZTE Score is an Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone that features a 600MHz processor, 3.5-inch HVGA display, accelerometer,... - read more

Boost Mobile today announced that it is making some adjustments to its Android voice and data plans starting October 6, one day before the Samsung Transform Ultra launches. Boost Mobile is adding a $5 monthly charge to the cost of its Android smartphone plans. Its Monthly Unlimited plans... - read more

Virgin Mobile today announced changes to its $30/month payLo prepaid plan that bundles minutes, messages and data. For the same $30 price, the plan will now include 1500 messages instead of 500, and 30 MB of data instead of 10. The plan still includes 1500 voice minutes, as before.... - read more

Boost Mobile today announced the availability of the BlackBerry 9670 Style. The Style is a flip phone that includes a full QWERTY keyboard. It requires the $60 monthly unlimited plan. Boost offers bill shrinkage for on-time payments every six months.

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Virgin Mobile USA today announced that starting in October, it will throttle the data speeds of customers who exceed 2.5GB of data in a given monthly billing cycle. Virgin won't charge overage fees, but users who go over the limit will see data speeds slowed down to 256Kbps or less for the... - read more

Cricket today announced the addition of the Huawei Ascend II, a new Android 2.3 smartphone that has a 3.5 inch display, 5 megapixel camera with video capture, 600MHz processor and support for microSD cards. It comes with all the stock Google services that make up most Android phones.

Virgin Mobile USA today confirmed to Fierce Wireless that it is altering all the pricing rates for its Beyond Talk service plans. Starting this week, Beyond Talk's lowest plan, which includes 300 voice minutes and unlimited messaging and data, will jump from $25 per month to $35 per month.... - read more

Sprint's Boost Mobile service today announced a limited promotion that will allow its customers to place unlimited calls to landlines in Mexico for $5 per month. The option must be added to a monthly unlimited plan, which start at $50. The International Connect plan also includes unlimited... - read more

Leap Wireless today announced that the Samsung Chrono is available starting today. The Chrono is an entry-level flip phone that includes Bluetooth, speakerphone, VGA camera, dual displays, and GPS.

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At an event in New York City today, Motorla announced the Triumph, an Android phone for Virgin Mobile. The phone sports a very square shape and unusually high-end features for Virgin. Those features include a 1 GHz processor, large 4.1-inch display, 5-megapixel auto-focus camera,... - read more

Cricket Wireless today announced the availability of the Samsung Indulge. This variant of the Indulge loses the LTE feature of the MetroPCS version, but has a 3.5 inch display, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 1GHz processor, and Samsung TouchWiz 3.0.

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Virgin Mobile USA today announced an addition to its roster of Broadband2Go plans. Starting today, it will once again offer a $20 monthly plan that provides up to 500MB of data. This plan joins the existing $10 plan, which provides 100MB for 10 days, and the $50 plan, which provides 2.5GB... - read more

Boost Mobile and Motorola today announced the addition of three handsets to Boost's roster of devices.

• Clutch + i475: This sequel to the Clutch is a bar-style QWERTY phone for Boost's iDEN network. It supports Boost's PTT services and boasts Bluetooth 2.0, GPS,... - read more

Boost Mobile today announced two new options for those needing international calling/texting services. The $5 International Connect plan provides Boost customers with unlimited calling to landlines in 150+ cities in Mexico; unlimited calling to Canada; and unlimited international text... - read more

Yesterday, 38 years passed since Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola placed the first phone call on a cell phone while taking a stroll on the streets of New York City in the distant April 3rd of 1973. Cooper made a dazzling demonstration by calling none other than rival Dr. Engel, research chief of... - read more

LightSquared, the company planning to build a wholesale only LTE network in the USA has signed a national roaming agreement with Leap Wireless. The new arrangement will allow Cricket, Leap's operating subsidiary, to supplement the LTE coverage that Cricket plans to deploy across its own... - read more

Good news for Page Plus users on the Talk N Text 1200 plan. The company recently announced some improvements to the plan that will provide customers with more messages and data. For the same $29.95 per month you get 1,200 minutes, 2,000 messages, and 100MB of data, up from 1,200 messages and... - read more

With many of today's older phone models losing battery power too quickly to suit users, it is no surprise that 25 year old Cody Wilkins was upset. His phone was running out of power and the fierce blizzard had cut off power to Mr. Wilkins' home in Silver Spring, Maryland. So he packed up his... - read more

The LG Optimus One is one of the most popular affordable Android handsets out there - with a modification for almost each of the major carriers, you can even choose your network freely. And now Virgin Mobile joins the rest with its own version of the Optimus One - the LG Optimus V.

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Leap Wireless today announced that it has agreed to purchase the remaining shares of Denali Spectrum LLC, which operates in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin markets. Leap already owned 82.5% of Denali, an will acquire the remaining 17.5%. In order to make the deal work, Denali has... - read more

Virgin Mobile USA announced via its Facebook page today that it will offer the Samsung Intercept as its first Android device. Virgin didn't announce pricing or availabilty, but indicated that more information would be shared soon.

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Cricket and Kyocera today announced the final launch date and sale price of the Zio, Kyocera's first Android handset. The phone, which has a 3.5-inch display, EVDO Rev. A 3G, Android 1.6, and a 3.2 megapixel camera, is available starting today at all Cricket stores.

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Cricket Wireless today began offering the MSGM8 II (message mate two) QWERTY-equipped messaging phone. The MSGM8 II, made by ZTE, was approved by the FCC several weeks ago. Its basic features include a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, voice recognition, speakerphone and a handful of... - read more

Cricket, the wireless service from Leap Wireless, will launch 15 new devices this year across a range of categories. In addition to smartphones like the recently-released BlackBerry Curve 8530 and the Android-powered Sanyo Zio by Kyocera, Cricket will also launch 3G feature phones and even... - read more

Boost Mobile today announced two new Motorola handsets, the Rambler and the Bali. Shared features include clamshell designs, 1.3 megapixel cameras with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, and support for microSD cards.

• Rambler: This flip phone has a full QWERTY... - read more

Cricket has posted a new web site touting the unreleased Kyocera / Sanyo Zio. The Zio M6000 was first announced in March of this year. It is a tri-band CDMA EVDO Rev. A handset with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. It has a 3.5-inch screen and 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture at 30 frames... - read more

Boost Mobile today announced a change to its international calling plans. International Connect is now available as an add-on to the existing Monthly Unlimited and BlackBerry Monthly Unlimited for an extra $10 per month. The plan now also offers unlimited calling to landlines in 150 cities... - read more

Virgin Mobile USA today launched the Novatel MiFi 2200. The modem is available for $150 with no contract. Virgin Mobile USA said the modem can be used with its Broadband2Go Top-Up cards, which start as low as $10 per month and range up to $60 per month for 5GB of data. Virgin Mobile USA... - read more

Boost Mobile today announced that it will begin selling the Motorola i1 Android walkie-talkie phone starting on June 20. It will be available at Boost retail stores, as well as Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores. Pricing was not disclosed.

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In the wake of its new focus on providing messaging and web-centric services, Virgin Mobile has added four handsets to its lineup. Several were previously offered by Sprint. The BlackBerry Curve 8530 should be available by the end of May. The LG Rumor Touch is already available with no... - read more

Boost Mobile today improved its $50 Monthly Unlimited Plan by offering free, unlimited calls to 411 directory service. Subscribers will also get unlimited email and instant messaging, in addition to the text messaging that the service also provides. Boost BlackBerry users, who already enjoyed... - read more

Today Cricket Wireless introduced Cricket Navigation, a new service offering for its customers. Cricket Navigation provides voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation as well as details on nearby gas stations, traffic, local points of interest, and local business search. The application is available... - read more

Cricket will offer a version of the newest Curve with AWS CDMA this "summer". It's otherwise identical to the Curve 8530 offered by other CDMA carriers.

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Today Cricket Wireless told Phone Scoop that it is prepared to offer its customers smartphones with its pre-paid wireless services. One of the first will be the recently announced Kyocera Zio. Cricket also said that it will soon be offering a BlackBerry, though it didn't specify which... - read more

Today Cricket Wireless announced a new, nationwide expansion of its calling services. Cricket has struck a new roaming agreement with Sprint that dramatically improves the footprint of its network. Before today's expansion, Cricket covered 195 million pops. After today, it reaches 270... - read more

Sprint and Virgin Mobile USA have officially started notifying its postpaid customers (former Helio) that Virgin Mobile is winding down and will cease operation of its postpaid service by May 25. Sprint hopes that it can convert some Virgin postpaid customers to full Sprint postpaid customers.... - read more

U.S. carriers were quick to react over the weekend with mobile giving programs after the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday.

Similar to the tragedy that struck Haiti, the major U.S. carriers mobilized and provisioned short codes for use in mobile giving campaigns... - read more

In the wake of this morning's 8.8 magnitude earthquake in the Republic of Chile, Sprint announced today that customers on Sprint, Nextel, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA will be able to support the earthquake relief efforts conducted by Convoy of... - read more

Today Page Plus Cellular announced that it has dropped roaming charges from 59 cents per minute to 29 cents per minute. Customers will only be charged this fee when roaming off of Page Plus' network.

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Following T-Mobile's footsteps, today Cricket announced that it, too, is offering its voice customers free, unlimited calling to Haiti between now and midnight Eastern Standard Time on Friday, January 22, 2010.

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Boost Mobile is prepared to offer its Monthly Unlimited plans on three CDMA handsets that will be released later this month. The Kyocera Sanyo Mirro SCP3810 and Sanyo Incognito SCP6760 can take advantage of the $50 Monthly Unlimited plan.

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Today Boost Mobile announced some changes to its International Connect plan. The $10 monthly add-on already offers unlimited text messaging and Walkie-Talkie calls to Canada, Baja California (Mexico) and Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile. Now the plan includes unlimited regular calls... - read more