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With the holiday season wrapping up, the deals are dying down and reality is setting back in. To kick off the New Year, Verizon is switching up its Total Mobile Protection plan. The company is lowering the replacement cost for lost or broken devices to $89. To make up for the lower replacement cost, Verizon is increasing the monthly cost of Total Mobile Protection. New customers will pay $13/month, while existing customers will continue to pay $11/month until March 6, when their monthly cost will increase to the new $13 rate. Verizon is also touting nationwide cracked screen repairs, with […]

The nation’s No. 3 wireless operator launched a buy-one-get-one deal on twelve flagship phones from Samsung, LG and Apple for users who activate a new line of service and buy both phones on the company’s monthly installment plan. Switchers who trade in a qualifying phone and buy a Samsung Galaxy S8, LG G6, LG V30 or LG V30+ will get a free model after the mail-in rebate; those who buy a Galaxy S8+, Active or Note 8 are eligible for as much as $700 back. The BOGO rebate applies to the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 […]

T-Mobile, famous (or infamous?) for not pulling its punches when trying to beat the competition, is starting off the year big with deals that will try to convince people to live their current carriers. They even have one that is specifically for one of their biggest competitors. The carrier is offering three big deals for those looking to get new smartphones: Buy One Get One when you avail of premium Samsung and LG devices, $150 off if you don’t want a second phone, and Verizon customers looking to leave Big Red also get good deals if they switch. If you’re […]

NTT and Sprint are leading ETSI’s Network Operators Council (NOC) advisory group for its new zero-touch network and Service Management Industry Specification Group (ZSM ISG). ZSM ISG, which recently ended its kickoff meeting that took place at ETSI on Jan. 10-12, elected a leadership team, started discussing the first topics to work on and initiated collaboration with other standards bodies, fora and open source communities. The Network Operators Council (NOC) advisory group named Ashiq Khan of DOCOMO as chair and Serge Manning of Sprint as vice chair. Klaus Martiny of Deutsche Telekom was elected as chair of the ZSM ISG, […]

T-Mobile Tuesdays, the app T-Mobile customers open up once a week to get discounted prices to retailers and services such as PetSmart and Lyft, is going to offer a few film-focused things you may want to consider picking up. Thanks to a new deal between T-Mobile and Fox Films, any T-Mobile customer eligible to claim a T-Mobile Tuesday reward can grab a $4 movie ticket to upcoming Fox Film flicks, including Deadpool 2, Red Sparrow, Alita: Battle Angel and Dark Phoenix, and Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Considering the price of popcorn somehow continues to rise, even though it’s just […]

A POS system should help you run your business smoothly by making the data-entry process for your employees quick and easy, and by providing you with relevant analytical information that helps with the business decision making process. The need for such system is paramount in the age of hyper-competition with the rise of online shopping. The adoption of execution of right technologies can help a small business outsmart their larger competitors. However, all POS systems are not the same. The technological improvements of last few years have vastly transformed the software landscape, and any business will be well-served by exploring […]