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Competitors like AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM carriers, ... This period starts at activation for prepaid phones, so you can’t just buy a prepaid phone and wait 60 days.

There are only two GSM carriers here in the U.S.--AT&T and T-Mobile--and the only Android phone that we could find on a prepaid plan was the T-Mobile Comet, a relatively basic Android handset. It ...

WiMax carrier Clearwire has added a low-cost prepaid mobile operator, Locus Telecommunications, to the set of partners that offer services over its high-speed broadband network.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Virgin Mobile USA will offer the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S at no-subsidy, no-contract prices, but with prepaid rates that beat most other carriers and substantially reduce the total ...

Main wireless networks in North America used two different standards: Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications, used by AT&T, T-Mobile, and a few prepaid carriers, and Code Division Multiple ...

reader comments 26. Cricket won't be the only US carrier in 2012 to offer the iPhone with a prepaid plan.According to sources speaking to MarketWatch, Sprint plans to begin offering prepaid ...

There have been quite a few recent developments with carriers and unlocked or unsubsidized devices. So what’s the future of mobile, at least on the carriers side. Starting with the Nexus 4. It ...

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These days there is more talk of using prepaid carriers than ever before and the Nexus 4 certainly sparked a debate about it when it launched for as. X. Home; All the ...

AT&T plans to acquire Leap Wireless, operator of the Cricket prepaid mobile service, in what would be the latest consolidation of the U.S. mobile industry. AT&T announced late Friday it has agreed ...

Prepaid customers on competing carrier Virgin Mobile USA, which is owned by Sprint, have had access to Apple's iPhone since last June. As of last fall, MetroPCS had more than 1.5 million subscribers.