The word on the street is that AT&T’s femtocell technology may be launching in some markets, including Atlanta, San Antonio, Seattle, and North Carolina, as early as next week. The femtocell device, aka AT&T 3G Microcell, connects to your broadband connection and essentially becomes a honest to goodness mini cell tower. Everyone in range of approx 5,000 square feet should experience improved cell phone reception. Hooray for all you cave-dwellers.
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It looks like Sprint’s “wireless revolution” comes in the form of a new “Any Mobile, Anytime” plan. The new plan does exactly what it sounds like, allowing customers unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling from the Sprint network to any other phone on any U.S. wireless carrier.
The best value is the $69.99 Everything Data plan which includes “Any Mobile, Anytime”, unlimited text/picture/video messaging, unlimited data, GPS navigation, Sprint TV, and 450 minutes to landlines. Upgrade to the $99.99 plan and you’ll have everything covered without limit.
Wireless revolution? Eh, probably not, but this is one heck of a good deal.
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Sprint sent a rather cryptic e-mail message to its premier customers that really made me go ‘ooh!’ and ‘aah!’. Supposedly, this “wireless revolution” hints to be something in the same vein as the “Simply Everything”, “Right Plan Promise”, and “ReadyNow” services. A new, all-encompassing plan, perhaps? We’ll find out tomorrow.
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AT&T announced their new A-List with rollover plan. Similar to T-mobile’s “My Favs” feature, the new plan allows a customer with a Nation plan of $59.99 or higher to call any five domestic numbers of their choosing without limit.
FamilyTalk customers with a $89.99 or higher plan can choose ten numbers and anyone in that plan can call these numbers without limit.
What makes this special, according to AT&T, is that any unused minutes can be rolled over. A-List launches on 9/20 and it’s unclear if iPhone users will have access.
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Great news for all you texting fanatics: Today AT&T announced MMS capability for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users. On September 25th, users will receive an update via iTunes that’ll enable this feature. So why did it take so long? According to AT&T, they wanted to deliver the “best possible experience” and prepare for the diluge of MMS traffic (and I believe them).
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According to internal AT&T e-mails, on September 6th, AT&T is requiring a data plan for all new smartphone users to ensure customers receive “…the best possible experience with their Smartphones.” And, of course, to prevent worries of “bill shock.” Uh huh, yeah, can we say CHA CHING!
Those of you without a data plan are safe…for now. However, if ever you plan on upgrading to a new smartphone on or after September 6th, you’ll be required to subscribe to a data plan. Of course, the workaround would be to give up an arm and a leg to purchase an unlocked smartphone…
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RIM released their BlackBerry App World online. A boon to all BlackBerry users, this online version allows you to quickly browse through the applications and games available in the App World. You can’t purchase directly online but you can send a download link to your BlackBerry via e-mail. Very handy, indeed.
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Today AT&T switched on their 850MHz 3G in Atlanta including downtown and parts of Fulton, DeKalb, North Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Fayette Counties.
So what’s the big deal? Isn’t it a step down from 1900MHz? Aren’t higher numbers better? Will it fry my brain? Well, no, no, and possibly. The 850MHz spectrum is actually better at penetrating through buildings so users should see an overall improvement in indoor reception.
If you’re not in Atlanta, fret not, as AT&T will be enabling the extra spectrum in other U.S. cities such as New York and San Francisco by the end of 2009.
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In addition to the markets coming in 2010 (Boston, Houston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.), Sprint announced the expansion of their hyper-speed WiMax service to 17 new markets later this year. Read ‘em and weep all you Los Angelinos:
Note: Image above from Gizmodo
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Page Plus Cellular, a nation-wide pre-paid cell phone provider, announced their Unlimited Talk n Text plan, which is exactly what you get but at an incredibly cheap price of $39.95 per month. Icing on the cake? How about 20 megabytes of data per month, included. Tempting, very tempting, indeed.
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