To keep AT&T in the hearts and minds of small business owners in California, AT&T is offering free U-verse Internet service (6Mbps or less) in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, Bakersfield, Long Beach, Modesto, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Fresno, Visalia, Sacramento, and Stockton.
Sprint as You Go is now gone, the former prepaid plans from Sprint have been replaced by the new Sprint Prepaid plans that are not not cheaper than Virgin Mobile
or Boost Mobile
that currently offer less expensive options on the same network.
AT&T has reduced the base price of the Mobile Share Value plans for what it calls its "best-ever pricing."
Many contend that the price cut was prompted by the exodus of AT&T customers to T-Mobile after it unleashed its uncarrier plans, last year. New T-Mobile customers, however, will benefit from increased data for capped data plans but will have to pay $10 more for unlimited data plans.
While T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint have been discounting their services since the un-carrier war started, Verizon has kept its prices close to original. However, the price wars are heating up, Verizon is now offering some new deals that make Verizon Wireless service or some smartphones cheaper.
It seems like only a few years ago that I was speaking to a Verizon spokesman who told me that ...