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T-Mobile USA To Extend Direct Carrier Billing, Open Up To Digital Content and Services

T-Mobile announced a brand new feature today allowing their Direct Carrier Billing service to be used for the purchase of digital games, gaming and social networking credits, music, videos and other digital offerings. T-Mobile’s new Direct Carrier Billing service will those purchases to be billed directly to the customers T-Mobile account using the web on their PC, smartphone, netbook or tablet. “As the growth in mobile purchasing explodes, we want to be at the forefront in helping … [read full article]

T-Mobile Teases Upcoming Giveaways During BlogHer Conference

[blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/tmobile/status/98403982501875712″] Oh how we love contests and giveaways and T-Mobile is set to offer up something to celebrate the BlogHer conference this week with contests planned for August 4th through 6th. The BlogHer conference is a celebratory look at women in Social Media and T-Mobile wants to help celebrate this yearly event. We don’t know what T-Mobile has in store but a reference to the “myTouch 4G Slide + more” isn’t being ignored. However, an … [read full article]

T-Mobile And 7-Eleven Partner Up, No Slurpee Included

T-mobile is taking steps to make access to America’s largest 4G network even easier.  How, you may ask.  Easy, parter with 7-Eleven, a chain with over 7,000 locations in the United States.  Starting today, customers can pick up a pre-paid LG GS170 for $29.99 all around the country.  It can even get better.  With the purchase of a 50 minute airtime card you can get the LG GS170 for half off, as long as you take … [read full article]

Blackberry Bold 9900 Starts Appearing On Store Material, Aims For August 31st Release

We’ve been calling for a late August release for the Blackberry Bold 9900 for quite a while now and thanks to a leak provided to the boys at PhoneArena that timeframe looks to be all but confirmed by Magenta herself. While the two-year contract price is unknown we do know the phone will come with a $50 mail in rebate that requires a $20 data plan attachment. On top of that we are getting glimpses … [read full article]

T-Mobile VIP Zone Site “Live,” We Think

Things are moving fast for us today with a few crafty TmoNews readers already coming up with the “live” link for the upcoming VIP Zone T-Mobile loyalty program. A quick look at http://tmobile.promo.eprize.com/customer/ or http://www.tmobile.com/vip will take you to a page with the above image ready and waiting for you. We haven’t tried registering yet (its important for us to bring you this news first!) but we’re eager to hear what you discover when … [read full article]

(Updated!!) T-Mobile To Enforce Data Plan Contracts Beginning August 8th

Update: As a quick update to the post we wanted to ensure clarity so that people don’t start freaking out over the verbiage in the image. A loophole exists in T-Mobile’s systems that allows for employees to remove data features a before customer fulfills the required contract term. This will NOT force a customer to have a data requirement if they do not want…if some representatives in the comments are correct in their interpretation of this image. … [read full article]

LG-P699 Aka T-Mobile Optimus Net Receives Bluetooth Approval

We’ve seen the name LG Gelato pop up on the T-Mobile rumor mill before and now we see that the LG-P699 destined for T-Mobile has received Bluetooth approval. While the phone pictured looks a lot like the recently released LG Optimus Net we also have reason to suspect that the LG Gelato and Optimus Net are one and the same on T-Mobile. With clear T-Mobile USA branding on this leaked image further solidifying our belief that … [read full article]

(Updated) T-Mobile To Introduce New Loyalty Program Dubbed “VIP Zone?”

Updated: Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader (thanks Oregon user themykel!) who found a job description courtesy of career builder for this new loyalty program.  T-Mobile USA is a national provider of wireless voice, messaging, and data services capable of reaching over 268 million Americans where they live, work, and play. In a world full of busy and fragmented lives, we at T-Mobile USA, Inc. have the idea that wireless communications can help. The value of our plans, … [read full article]

T-Mobile “Roadmap” Offers Release Dates For New Devices, Guess The Phone

It’s time to play our favorite game…guess the release date! That’s right with this lovely little roadmap hitting our inbox we’re getting a look at what days T-Mobile will be releasing new equipment during the next 60 days. The one exception is we don’t know what phone corresponds to what day so we’re playing “guess the phone!” Within the months of August and September the previously leaked roadmap gives us hope that we might see two … [read full article]

Has T-Mobile Customer Service Taken A Turn For The Worse?

After T-Mobile’s loss of the JD Power Customer Care award and a continuously growing stream of emails regarding unusually long wait times we begin to wonder just what exactly is going on with T-Mobile’s award winning customer service department. Well someone’s ears were ringing as two sources answered our question with a confidential look at what could be to blame. We’ve received two pieces of information that give us at least some form of an answer as … [read full article]

T-Mobile Receives Windows Phone 7 4G Stickers For Future Display…Sign Of Upcoming Devices?

Windows Phone 7 fans might want to do a double take at the above image as we have what we believe is the very first piece of evidence that a 4G Windows Phone 7 device is coming to T-Mobile. T-Mobile retail stores often receive display unit stickers, graphics and images well before a phone arrives and in this case we hope a new Windows Phone 7 device is on the horizon. As you can see in … [read full article]

Things To Look Forward To…AT&T To Implement Data Throttling

In what can only be described as a taste of things to come provided the AT&T/T-Mobile takeover deal goes through AT&T is rumored to begin throttling data plans come October. AT&T will work to curb data congestion on their network and begin to recoup some of their reputation. The throttling plan will be pretty standard with data heavy users being curbed to a specific speed once they hit a predetermined threshold allowed by AT&T. There … [read full article]