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Did you know that most carriers don’t allow you to block text messages coming from a specific number? This is an issue we went over last month. It’s quite frustrating. What’s more bothersome is that with T-Mobile, you can’t even turn text messaging off completely. So if you’re being spammed, you’ll get charged. T-Mobile was actually hit with class action lawsuit earlier this year over texting services. Their answer is to institute a blocking program. Hooray!

Posted in T-Mobile on May 14th, 2008
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In the inaugural edition of the Prepaid Podcast, we talked about T-Mobile’s FlexPay prepaid plan. It’s what any other cellphone company would call a hybrid plan. You pay per month, just as you would with postpaid, but you pay up before every month. And since you can do it prepaid, there’s no two-year contract. The only problem is that they don’t really advertise the service on their website. Well, apparently there’s another problem: It’s not very easy to use. We could be seeing a fix to that, though.

Posted in T-Mobile on April 28th, 2008
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It doesn’t look like T-Mobile has issued a press release on this yet, but Ian points out that T-Mobile is offering a pay per day plan in addition to its traditional pay as you go service. It’s a dollar per day, only on days you use the phone. You get unlimited nights, starting at 7 p.m., though it looks like daytime weekend hours are billed as peak time. Unlimited mobile to mobile is included as well. Anytime minute are 10 cents a pop.

Posted in T-Mobile on April 28th, 2008
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I’ve been looking at T-Mobile’s HotSpot @Home service since it was first rolled out. It seemed an ingenious idea to me at the time. With VoIP calls on the rise, T-Mobile managed a way to get WiFi built into a few handsets. And then they created a system whereby you can make *free calls over the Internet from your cell phone. Of course, they were charging $20 per month for the feature, but it no only includes home calling, but free calling from any T-Mobile HotSpot, or wherever there’s an unsecured WiFi spot (though that might not be entirely legal). This week, the company has announced that they’re downing the cost to $10.

Posted in T-Mobile on February 15th, 2008
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Before large telecommunications purchases can become official, they have to be approved by the FCC. This is to ensure that nothing outside of the purchaser and purchasee are affected by the transaction. So if AT&T wanted to purchase a small cell company, but doing so would interfere with airwaves not owned by either, the FCC would step in and force them to correct the issue before they would sign off on it. And then there’s the whole anti-trust issue, which usually goes to the Department of Justice. But in any regard, there seem to be no snags in the T-Mobile-SunCom deal, and it should be going through for the reported $2.4 billion.

Posted in T-Mobile on February 12th, 2008
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I absolutely love when we start to get each carrier’s quarterly data reports. Yeah, it’s full of stuff I don’t care about, like how many billions of dollars they made. I just love seeing the subscriber numbers and comparing them to the others. Today we’re going over T-Mobile’s numbers, and the nation’s No. 4 carrier fared rather well. At least better than their chief competitor, No. 3 Sprint, who once again posted a net customer loss in the fourth quarter. However, there is still a vast chasm between these two companies.

Posted in T-Mobile on January 29th, 2008
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We’re in the midst of the holiday season, which means that conversations have turned from “events” to “stuff.” As in, stuff kids want from their parents (or Santa, or whatever). Over the past few years, cell phones have made their ways onto Christmas and Hanukkah lists. While before they were merely devices to talk and text with, they’re turning into multipurpose devices. And as we see the increase in functionality, we see an increase in demand for these fancier phones. Atop this years list are phones like Verizon’s LG Voyager and AT&T’s Apple iPhone, but those aren’t the only shiny objects that kids are clamoring for. Don’t forget T-Mobile and their Sidekick series.

Posted in Prepaid Phones, T-Mobile on December 10th, 2007
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Posted in T-Mobile on December 6th, 2007
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It was a good effort on the part of Vodafone, but in the end, T-Mobile is allowed to conduct business as usual with the iPhone. The German court ruled that T-Mobile can attach a contract to the phone, as well as lock the SIM to their network. This likely does away with T-Mobile’s sales of unlocked iPhones, which cost more than double their locked brethren — 399 euros vs. 999 euros.

Posted in T-Mobile, iPhone on December 5th, 2007
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These two stories are just tidbits, so we’ll combine them into one post, even though they have no connection whatsoever:

Posted in Cricket, T-Mobile on November 26th, 2007
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