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  • CrunchDeals: All AT&T phones free on Wirefly until midnight tonight

    CrunchDeals: All AT&T phones free on Wirefly until midnight tonight

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Wirefly.com is selling its entire stock of AT&T handsets for free after instant discount with a new two-year contract. Note that the store doesn’t sell iPhones, though. You’ll have to go to Best Buy or directly to AT&T for those.

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  • Dear AT&T: If your network is so great, why don’t you marry it?

    Dear AT&T: If your network is so great, why don’t you marry it?

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    The Gruber does it again. In a point by point analysis of Randall Stross’ article about AT&T not really sucking and actually being great, he points out a few valuable concepts. First, if the iPhone sucks so much on AT&T’s network, why hasn’t AT&T made Apple fix it? Unless AT&T is so afraid of Steve [...]

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  • Sierra Wireless’ dual form factor AirCard 504 for AT&T gets FCC’d

    Sierra Wireless’ dual form factor AirCard 504 for AT&T gets FCC’d

    Posted on December 12, 2009 | No Comments
    ExpressCard and PC Card slots both seem in danger of going the way of the dodo right now, but they're not dead yet -- far from it -- which means that carriers still have a vested interest in making sure there are data cards ready to suck $60 out of your wallet in exchange for 5GB of 3G data. So far, AT&T's only been selling a USB modem that's capable of taking advantage of its newly-christened 7.2Mbps markets, which means they've got to get a move on with those other form factors -- and by all accounts, it seems that's where this AirCard 504 comes into play. Rumored previously as the "Triple Lindy," this bad boy should come bundled with a PC Card adapter (just like its AirCard 503 cousin) and feature support up to full 21Mbps HSPA+, although the best you'll likely ever get out of it connected to an AT&T cell is 7.2. We don't have intel on a release date right now, but we imagine they're itching to get this one out there -- the carrier doesn't offer any ExpressCard option at the moment, amazingly.

    Sierra Wireless' dual form factor AirCard 504 for AT&T gets FCC'd originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • World ranking: New Yorkers pay lowest cell phone charges

    World ranking: New Yorkers pay lowest cell phone charges

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm aware studies comparing cell phone charges generally have to be taken with a grain of salt (especially cross-country studies like the following one), but this one coming from the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is pretty interesting. It's not really a "world" ranking, but the ministry compared [JP, PDF] cell phone charges in seven major cities in Europe, Asia and the US. The result in a nutshell: New Yorkers are pretty lucky, Parisians aren't.

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