If you’ve been following the story since late last year, you’ll be aware of T-Mobile’s premium SMS refunds. Initially, it made a move to cancel its ties with premium content providers in an effort to ensure its customers couldn’t accrue any unauthorized charges for jokes, horoscopes and trivia they don’t want. It set … [read full article]
T-Mobile is about to release a wave of products, if leak obtained by Windows Central is anything to go by. The product release schedule points to several devices due to land within a few days of each other, between November 9th and November 14th. They go as follows: 11/9 – T-Mobile LTE Hotspot 11/9 – HTC Windows M8 11/12 – LG 450 11/12 – Nexus 6 11/12 – Nexus 9 11/14 … [read full article]
A short while back, we heard T-Mobile was working on a brand new LTE Z64 personal hotspot in conjunction with ZTE. Today, we’ve been sent more information on another similar device, which looks set to launch within the first couple of weeks in November. The release date was pointed to in a leaked memo obtained by Windows Central: [read full article]
Today, T-Mobile announced that will be offering up the latest smartwatch from Samsung, the Gear S, from November 9th. It will be available on EIP for $0 down with 24 monthly payments of $14.58, or a total retail cost of $349.92. Those who want to pre-register can do so today at T-Mobile.com. What’s more, T-Mo is making the most of the Gear S’ built-in SIM reader and is introducing a wearable rate plan for … [read full article]
Last night, Microsoft and T-Mobile began the long-awaited rollout of Windows Phone 8.1 to its Lumia 925-toting customers. The newly released software also supports T-Mobile and GoGo’s inflight Wi-Fi texting. The details can be found on the Lumia 925 support page. “Beginning October 28, the Lumia 925 received a software update to Windows Phone 8.1 / Software version 3051.50009.1439.0017. This update provides features and improvements” Rumors started circling … [read full article]
Although pre-orders have already arrived on buyers’ doorsteps, today is the day that T-Mobile launches the long-awaited successor to the Xperia Z1s. The brand new Xperia Z3 is available to buy online and in retail stores from this morning. It has a full retail price of $630, or $0 down and 24 monthly payments of $26.25. Key specs for the T-Mobile Xperia Z3: … [read full article]
In a blog posted yesterday evening, John Marsh from AT&T outlines the company’s opposition to T-Mobile’s attempt at changing roaming regulation. And that’s not surprising. No matter which party is right or wrong, AT&T seemingly always opposes every change the Un-carrier tries to make. Whether that’s making spectrum auctions more fair, or “clarifying” roaming rate regulations. At the heart of this complaint is T-Mobile’s request to the FCC just a few months … [read full article]
Within the past couple of hours, T-Mobile finished its Un-carrier style earnings call. And unlike any other call I’ve listened in on, very little time was given to the scripted run down and slides of all the quarter’s financials. Instead, Legere&Co wanted it to be an open discussion between analysts, journalists and themselves, switching between answering questions on call and questions posed on Twitter. Because of the varying themes in the questions asked, … [read full article]
As I’m sure you already know, John Legere was interviewed at Re/code’s Code/Mobile event last night by the respected journalist, Ina “not as scary as Kara” Fried. During the questioning, Legere – in his typical style – answered questions on quarterly performance, the competition and the iPhone. And if you’ve watched any of his interviews before, there’s nothing mind-blowingly insightful here. But nevertheless, still some interesting anecdotes and “factoids” and it’s certainly well … [read full article]
We’ve been covering network upgrades here on TmoNews for many months, posting on sightings in various locations. Whether it be new LTE sites or upgrades to wideband LTE. But during that time, one thing has become increasingly clear: The network engineers are working ridiculously fast. We get new sightings every single week, across various states and markets. So it’s no surprise to us that T-Mobile’s LTE network now officially covers 250 million Americans, … [read full article]
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