Here is a great little article from the EPA website on cellphone recycling -
Recycling a cellphone: an Easy Call - Every day there are thousands of opportunities to recycle cell phones and accessories. Many cell phone retailers, manufacturers, and service providers have ongoing collection programs where phones can be dropped off or mailed in—regardless of [...]
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What is going on with Virgin Mobile?
What is going on with Virgin Mobile?
Virgin Mobile is a prepaid MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) offering a prepaid or “pay as you go” wireless service on the Sprint network. Virgin Mobile purchases the airtime minutes from Sprint and resells them as Virgin Mobile. The company has attempted to leverage the Virgin name and target [...]
Helio going the way of most failed MVNOs?
The most likely next failure in the US Wireless Industry is Helio the high tech slanted MVNO run on the Sprint network. Helio has recently let a few key executives go and has also seen the departure of a few others. The industry is moving into a price war and the amount of advertising from [...]
Sprint buyout by T-Mobile possible
Today we have several reports the a T-Mobile might buy Sprint. Could these reports turn out to be true? Hard to say but fun to speculate. T-Mobile has decent wireless marketing, good GSM handsets and has money since it is owned by Deutsche Telecom. Sprint has lots of wireless subscribers and that is what T-Mobile [...]
Is a Free Cell Phone really Free ?
All over the web you can see Free Cell Phone offers - free RAZR, Free Blackberry, Free Chocolate from Verizon Wireless and so on. How can the wireless providers give you a free phone? The answer is service contracts. Cellphones are NEVER free - in fact they come with a fairly large monthly expense for [...]
who gets the subscribers?
It looks like this will be a hard year for the major US Wireless carriers, ATT wireless, Verizon Wireless, Sprint/Nextel, T-Mobile and Alltel. There are no super exciting phones that will do for the industry (or at least ATT) what the Motorola RAZR did and they are now in trench-warfare with the rate plans.
A few [...]
Sprint is “going for it”
ok so sprint decided to skip right past the $69.99 idea and just throw in the entire enchilada.
WOW! -Sprint Launches Revolutionary $99.99 ”Simply Everything(SM)” Plan- Per their press release “unlimited pricing plan that gives customers unlimited voice, data, text, e-mail, Web-surfing, Sprint TVSM, Sprint Music, GPS Navigation, Direct Connect® and Group Connect® for $99.99 a [...]
Updated Blackberry Pearl looks great
The new version to the blackberry Pearl 8120 or “Pearl 2″ arrives in the US with T-Mobile and AT&T Wireless next month and is purported to add the following features to this very successful form factor:
Wi-Fi
video capture
stereo Bluetooth
2 megapixel camera
This device update/refresh should be just enough to keep the Blackberry Pearl Juggernaut rolling!
all you can eat for even less?
We are hearing that one of the US wireless carriers is now working on a $69.99 rate plan for unlimited usage “all you can eat” service plan, this will in our opinion start a price war that in the end might not be so great for the industry but will be great for the average [...]
All you can eat wireless rate plans
In the span of a week Verizon wireless, ATT wireless, T-Mobile all announced “all you eat” $99.99 rate plans, there is little doubt that Sprint is going to follow suit in the near future so as not to be left out. Cellphone users all over the country are now able to use all the voice [...]