I can't say I saw this coming, but the word is out that Starbucks shreds their hotspot deal with T-Mobile and goes with AT&T. The good news is that T-Mobile customers will still be able to use the Starbucks locations for free through a roaming deal with AT&T. T-Mobile has [...]

From the no duh department, the folks at AT&T Mobility were "secret shopped" by the folks at the Consumers Union. They asked what the early termination fee (ETF) was for a wireless contract with their company. Guess what: they got different answers, depending on whom they talked to. And you [...]

I was thinking more about the difference between buying a bundle of minutes-at a fixed monthly cost-versus paying for minutes as you go. I'm trying to figure out why such a thing caught on here in North America, but doesn't seem to have caught on so much elsewhere. The only [...]

A few years ago, AT&T Wireless-back before it was purchased by Cingular and assimilated into AT&T-sold a device called the Ogo. The device was a huge flop, but it offered an interesting proposition: a data-only plan for under $20 a month, which included access to one IM service over SMS. [...]