Join your hosts Marianne Schultz and myself for The Show: 64 - "Love of Vampires". You can subscribe to our show on iTunes, grab our RSS feed, listen now or download directly. We broadcast our iPad and iPhone podcast live each week. Follow @everythingicafe on Twitter for updates on timing. … [Read more...]
Finally acknowledging that it's bizarre to require a separate data plan for each item you own, Verizon has just unveiled Share Everything — a suite of plans that allow you to share your data and minutes over multiple devices: … [Read more...]
All this year we've been hearing that Verizon is working on a shared data plan, and the company has now come out and declared it. During the company's quarterly earnings call — which saw them admit that more than half the smartphone sales of Q1 were iPhones — Chief Financial Officer Andrew … [Read more...]
In January we reported news that Verizon was working on a shared data family plan, and a new leaked screenshot at PhoneArena seems to confirm that information. The screenshot seems to be an online tool for families to calculate how much data they would burn through in a month, and what data plan … [Read more...]
With everyone up in arms over AT&T's nebulous data throttling practices, Ma Bell has changed their company policy on the matter. No longer will the eternally shifting "top 5%" of users draw their ire, but rather now those that pass 3GB limit on 3G and a 5GB one on LTE. AT&T has laid out the … [Read more...]
When AT&T first informed us that they would start deploying data speed throttling measures, the langauge in the press release appeared to target consumers that weren't typical. The target were those rogue scoundrels who are streaming movies 24/7, those who take unlimited data entirely too … [Read more...]
If you use a family plan for your smartphones, you've doubtless wondered why you can share minutes between devices, but not megabytes. Building on earlier reports, a source at Engadget claims that Verizon is hard at work at a shared data plan for 2012, and that training material for the new feature … [Read more...]
AT&T today announced all new data plans for both smartphones and tablets. The new data plans take effect on January 22nd, 2012. If you have an existing plan, you can either keep that plan or transition to one of the newer plans. … [Read more...]
Sprint's major differentiating factor from the other iPhone carriers is that they still offer unlimited data plans — which both Verizon and AT&T killed after getting the megapopular smartphone. Now it looks like they might be cutting back on that, for tetherers at least. If you tether with … [Read more...]
Since both Verizon and AT&T dropped unlimited data plans when too many iPhone users got interested in them, we've all been holding our breaths hoping that Sprint wouldn't kill the last remaining unlimited data plan on the smartphone market. AllThingsD has just confirmed that Sprint will in fact … [Read more...]
