Amp’d customers left with dead handsets after the company’s death can take their handsets over at Prexar Mobile. GOOD IDEA: move from one relatively unstable carrier to an even more unknown one. At least they won’t make you sign another contract. Lame Bonus: You get 100 text messages for free for the first month. [Prexar […]
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Time’s up, dear European carriers! If you haven’t made known your plans to offer up cheaper roaming rates by now, you’re about to be called out. Reportedly, the European Commission is readying a web site that would “include the names of operators from all EU countries, whether they have offered the Eurotariff, which […]
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The FCC has just approved rules on the highly-sought after, Google-attracting700MHz wireless frequency band auction which will take place sometime next year. The agency has decided that one-third of the soon-to-be-empty band will be available to consumers under FCC chairman Kevin Martin’s “open access” plan, which forces the winning bidder to keep the […]
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Those dudes at Apple sure love to patent things. For every patent they file that actually makes its way into a device that’s sold to consumers, there have got to be 30 others that just sit there collecting dust, waiting for an opportunity to sue the pants out of the next guy to come up […]
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