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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It’s not necessarily an old system, the mobile phone world. Prepaid carriers have been around for a while, as have the major carriers. Some have merged, some have dissolved; some have become ...

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 ...

Well, things started to change a bit with GSM network carriers. AT&T, over the past year or two, has really been trying to bolster its prepaid offering, and for someone like me who might spend a ...

Globally, GSM is a much more popular standard and many carriers utilize this network type. CDMA, on the other hand, is used by Verizon and Sprint and while it is used in some countries, it's not ...

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 ...

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 ...