After months of anticipation, Verizon Wireless is expected to introduce a new pricing scheme July 7, which will eliminate its unlimited data plan. AT&T did something similar a year ago. While Sprint ...

Those smart phones we love so much eat up our data allowances—and our budgets. But while it's not uncommon to hear about consumers "cutting the cord" when it comes to pricey cable services, they're ...

The business of selling prepaid wireless plans and phones is growing and changing. The market for such products used to be mainly lower-income people, but prepaid has moved up the income scale and is ...

The number of smart-phone users electing to skip the locked-in two-year contract and instead go with a prepaid plan is on the rise. But considering how much consumers stand to save by switching to ...

Virgin Mobile on Wednesday announced a new bold prepaid plan that may give certain smartphone buyers exactly the kind of tools they may have been dreaming of. Subscribers will be able to customize ...

If you’re paying more than $50 per month for your smartphone, you’re paying too much–unless you absolutely must have an iPhone. These days you can find full-featured, speedy smartphones with prepaid ...

The smartphone industry generally revolves around the latest cutting-edge wizardry rolling off the assembly lines at Apple and Samsung. But a new report shows that the market for prepaid smartphones, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- What's the best cell phone service? Verizon and two smaller companies, Consumer Cellular and U.S. Cellular, just earned top ratings in Consumer Reports' latest survey. But if ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The price of ...

Today, you can get a prepaid smartphone that easily competes with contract phones — even a prepaid iPhone. You’ll pay more up front, but entry-level monthly plans are much less. For instance, you’ll ...

While traditional mobile operators get rid of unlimited data and raise pricing, prepaid operators are getting hot new smartphones and offering cheap unlimited everything plans. Marguerite Reardon ...