T-Mobile is planning to raise the price on their Premium 5GB Promotional Data Bundles and Ultra 10GB Promotional Bundles an extra $5. This price hike appears to be a move to push customers towards Value Plans and while it might make sense to some, the majority of customers view any price hike as a companies attempt to nickel and dime them. The new prices will take effect April 4th and as TmoNews points out:
We’ve known about Verizon’s plan to introduce family shared data plans for quite some time now and have been patiently awaiting their release. It now appears we may see them soon as new images have popped up suggesting Verizon is in the end stages of development. PhoneArena managed to get their hands on a screenshot showing what appears to be Verizon’s future Family Data Usage Calculator. If it looks familiar to you it’s because it follows closely with Verizon’s current Data Usage Calculator which helps customers figure out which plan would best fit their data usage needs.
T-Mobile’s myTouch line just hasn’t been the same since HTC stopped manufacturing it but nevertheless it lives on. The next iteration is being manufactured by Huawei and has been spotted showing its wares in some candid photos. Not much to get excited about as it’s slated to be a mid-range ‘family’ marketed device. It looks to be running a custom UI on top of Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) and will be available with or without the slide-out keyboard.
There’s no denying the fact that Verizon leads the charge in 4G LTE expansion. In fact, come this time tomorrow, over 200 markets will be blanketed in the lightning fast speeds of Verizon LTE. To put things in perspective, AT&T, who recently announced twelve new markets, covers a total of 28 markets. With the majority of devices now being manufactured to take advantage of LTE (including the new iPad) this huge gap in market coverage could very well push a large number of users over to Big Red’s network.
Today T-Mobile announced a slew of new markets now able to take advantage of their 4G HSPA+ speeds while also highlighting their plans for the future. While T-Mobile admits their priority now lies in the preparation of their future LTE network, they will continue to improve their HSPA+ network with the possibility of eventually having 84Mbps theoretical download speeds. Since no one can predict the future, we’ll stick to what’s going on right now and that is the eight new cities with HSPA+:
