Walmart’s contract-free, unlimited data iPhone 5 plan is cheap as hell

Walmart yesterday announced that it would become the latest company to start offering a prepaid cell phone service for Apple's iPhone 4 & 5.

Cricket to sell iPhones with prepaid service for the first time

Cricket Wireless will soon become the first prepaid carrier in the U.S. to offer the iPhone 4 and 4S, the company announced Thursday.

Starting on June 22, Cricket’s service will run $55 a month for unlimited data, texting and calling. …

Let’s look at the all the spectrum T-Mobile is getting from AT&T

With the AT&T/T-Mobile merger dead, AT&T is readying to compensate T-Mobile with precious mobile spectrum that covers 128 cellular market areas. But what exactly does that look like on the U.S. map?

The fine folks at GigaOM and spectrum expert …

Verizon fixes technical issue blamed for nationwide 4G LTE outage

Wireless provider Verizon is America’s favorite national network, but it is not immune to an occasional case of the sniffles. A technical issue is being blamed for a service disruption that knocked out 4G LTE service to wireless customers nationwide, …