Posts by David Beren

Who hates contracts??

Well here we go all you flex pay lovers, starting May 26 – July 31 all new flexpay activations will receive a $25 dollar coupon toward the purchase of equipment. T-mobile is going to launch what they are describing as a promotional campaign designed to increase awareness of the flex-pay system. Unfortunately here is the real kicker: this offer is available in the Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston and Philadelphia markets only. Yup thats right, 5 whole cities … [read full article]

Blackberry Bold pricing…with HSDPA?!

Ok all you blackberry bold lovers out there. Crunchgear gave us a surprise today by showing up with pricing for the blackberry bold. Every carrier is mentioned but really, does anyone really care anymore when Sprint releases phones?? Looks like a September release date for T-mobile while AT&T scores the exclusive starting in June. This is the great part, looking at the bottom it mentions, ready for this, 3.6 HSDPA speeds … [read full article]

How to block texts part I…

Ok I’m going to cut right to the chase on this one because I’ll let the steps speak for themselves. Yesterday we reported it first that T-mobile be adding text message blocking and voila! Here are the steps necessary to block unwanted texts to your tmomail address. I’m not sure how long this has been on the support page for T-mobile but a little browsing around on the site yesterday … [read full article]

Price changes galore…

Happy monday T-mobile faithful, its been kind of a slow news weekend, other that that whole blackberry bold thing. On that note, definitely a week to pay attention to tmonews.com because we are going to have some VERY exciting site announcements this week. I of course have been sworn to secrecy and can’t even tell you how excited I am without putting my myself in the running for witness protection. Stay tuned for … [read full article]

T-mobile would like to thank the academy…

Ok magenta fans here is another big shock. T-mobile wins jd powers again! The article here from rcr news crowns T-mobile in all its glory: “T-Mobile USA Inc. ranked highest in customer satisfaction among the major wireless carrier-owned retail stores, especially on sales staff and store display factors, the firm reported. Alltel Corp. came in a close … [read full article]

Our little carrier…

Well well well T-mobile as always proving to be the little carrier that could. Throwing up a huge 1st quarter with 981,000 new subscribers! Coupled in with the 3G launch, this could be our year! Highlights include: 981,000 new subscriber additions 13,000 UMTS tower locations (yeah ummm seriously where are they?) 1.7% customer churn Total subscriber base at 30,798,000 (we first reported T-mobile successfully hitting 30 … [read full article]

Have you talked to your mothers lately?

Looks like one of our favorite T-mobile gimmicks is coming back for a 2 day only special. Waived activation fees!! Here is the catch, the promotion will ONLY be offered via an advertisement on the MSN.com home page. From that point it will take you down a special purchase path which will waive the activation fee upon successful ordering. Here are the bullet points for this mothers day two day special: Advertised on the MSN home page … [read full article]

3G is official now! (again)

T-mobile has cleared up all the garbage surrounding their 3G nyc launch last week. Nothing really earth shattering here, hsdpa devices on the way and officially clarify that data DOES work. Interestingly enough as you read through this, T-mobile doesn’t give any hints as to how many cities or how broad the rollout will be by years end. All that we get is “By year’s end, T-Mobile expects its high-speed data network will be available in those … [read full article]

one MORE thing…

Price questions have been asked and tmonews.com has answered. I’ll let the price comparison do the walking and the talking this time around.