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The current version of Apple’s video chat solution, FaceTime, only works over WiFi. This is allegedly to spare cell networks the beating video calls would give them. With the iPhone 5, Apple will release Facetime over cellular, allowing users to make video calls over the new flagship phone’s LTE connection. With caveats, that is. AT&T, [...]

My first cellphone was a T-Mobile cellphone, back when the company was called VoiceStream. Back then, it was the best value for wireless data usage. You could hook any Windows Mobile or Palm Device with a modem to what was meant to be its low-end data service for feature phones, T-Zones. Even after T-Zones officially [...]

MetroPCS has a great agenda: affordable smartphones that don’t require a contract. Unfortunately, driving a phone down to $149 or $199 without subsidy often requires manufacturers to make cutbacks, especially to fit in LTE (complete with metroPCS’s fledgling coverage). Huawei did this maneuver with the Activa 4G I’ve been testing the last few weeks. This [...]

We all know the era of the unlimited mobile data plan is coming to an end. Only one national carrier offers new customers an unlimited option, and the tiered pricing plans we’ve seen over the last few months have been something of a shock for top power users. Until now, there’s been one small hope [...]

Good news, everyone. You can stop being so envious of European techies. While they’ve been lucky enough to have Samsung’s new flagship for a month now, we in the U.S. can get our hands on it this month. Samsung announced that the device will come out shortly for multiple U.S. carriers. T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon [...]

Graduation is an exciting time for any student, and that goes for anyone graduating from high school, college, or even graduate school this year. New graduates need to have the edge wherever their next step will be, whether it’s in the business world or further into academia. An important component of this edge is a [...]

That’s right. Verizon will let you keep your unlimited data, but only if you purchase phones for their full retail prices. As Techcitement discussed earlier, Verizon plans to force its customers to change to a new tiered data plan when upgrading after new shared data plans become available mid-summer this year. Verizon won’t automatically move [...]

Verizon has finally put the nail in the coffin. Customers upgrading to LTE smartphones with grandfathered unlimited data will be forced to switch to a new tiered data plan after Verizon begins offering its shared tiered data plans this summer. Even though this isn’t exactly a surprising move by any means, this leaves Sprint as [...]

HTC’s recent retooling and building of the One brand has given us the One X on AT&T, the One S on T-Mobile, and the EVO 4G LTE on Sprint. Some of us were wondering though — what about Verizon? Wonder no more! The largest network in the U.S. brings us a new, high-end HTC device [...]

Verizon has the largest LTE network in the United States. There’s no question about that as Verizon is about to cover two-thirds of the U.S. population with expansion to 230 markets, significantly more than AT&T’s small but fast LTE network and orders of magnitude beyond Sprint’s nascent new 4G. However, Verizon wants to expand further [...]