Sprint Beats T-Mobile in Prepaid Net Adds for Q4

Sprint is finally being rewarded for the promotion it held in December wherein the telecom giant offered to cut customers’ bills to half if they made a switch from Verizon Wireless or AT&T Mobility to Sprint. Sprint’ CEO Marcelo Claure said at the 2015 Citi Global Internet, Media & Telecommunications Conference that the company’s cumulative net adds had come close to 1 million in the fourth quarter. If compared to the fourth quarter of 2013, the company had added merely 477,000 new subscribers by that period.

Roughly 400,000 of the new subscribers that joined the Sprint family were prepaid net adds. This substantially outdoes the fourth-quarter prepaid net adds of T-Mobile. T-Mobile also shared that it had 266,000 branded prepaid net adds during the fourth quarter.

Among other things, Claure also accepted that the highest churn in the industry was also Sprint’s. However, the company is diligently working on the efforts geared towards controlling that problem. Sharing the plans for the rest of the year, Claure said that the company will be continuing with its popular promotion "cut your bill in half" during 2015. The company’s major focus will lie on its marketing message surrounding that offer.

The CEO of Sprint appreciated the device leasing program of the company. He claims that the trend initiated by the company is quite disruptive for the telecom industry. The iPhone for Life is a program that provides customers a lease period of 30 months, at the same time reducing the monthly cost of the iPhone to $18 for the 16 GB iPhone 6 or $23 for the 16 GB iPhone 6 Plus. 

Other news shared by Sprint says that it has secured three new vendor financing deals for 2.5 GHz network gear totalling $1.8 billion. The deals include an agreement for $800 million with Nokia Networks that is due to mature in June 2021, a deal with Samsung for $750 million due for maturation in December 2022, and a $250 million deal with Alcatel-Lucent that is set to mature in December 2021.

Sprint also boomed its credit relationship with Export Development Canada by $300 million and amended the terms of its existing secured equipment credit facility.

Hunting For Free Government Cell Phone Service?

The advent of mobile phones in our lives has completely changed the way we communicate with our business partners, friends, and family throughout the globe.  Mobilephones can be used in many applications like social connectivity, personal safety, business operations, on-line banking, and more. These portable devices have conquered a prominent place in people’s life. It’s hard to imagine a world without mobile phones.  

Why mobile phones are important?

•   Modern phones are equipped with GPRS and navigation systems.
•  They allow you to make calls from nearly anywhere, anytime.
•  These handheld devices are equipped with internet facilities.
•   Cell phones allow you to transfer data like emails, documents, and videos just in a span of minutes. 

Considering the fact that without a mobile phone you are at an economic disadvantage in life, the government has introduced a program whereby people can get free government cell phone service. Under this program, a person can have free cell phone service because of a monthly subsidy. With this free cell phone service, he/she gets up to 250 anytime minutes per month, depending on the state in which they live. Most importantly, with this government-assisted cell phone, you are able to make long distance calls. With most providers, you can get the facility of sending text messages as well. 

People who are participating in any of the government services have this free cell phone service available for them. These services include Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Federal Public Housing Assistance (Section 8), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), National School Lunch Program (NSLP), or even Household Income Based on Federal Poverty Guidelines. There could also be more qualifying programs available in your state.

With www.mygovernmentcellphone.com, it is very simple to apply for the free government cell phone service. This free cell program comes absolutely at no cost!

Apple Sued for Providing Less Storage Space in iPhone 6 than Promised

Users with a 16 GB iPhone 6 may have observed that they don’t actually have the entire 16 GB of the storage space, as mentioned on their phone’s cover. That’s because a part of that space as was committed by Apple has been consumed up by the phone’s iOS 8 software. Escalating the broken promise to higher authorities for a fair judgment, two Apple (AAPL, Tech30) customers in Miami have sued Apple for their contracted storage capacity.

These customers, who are known to have filed their lawsuit in a California federal court, are now also looking for approval to turn their complaint into a class action suit. Both are asking for an amount more than $5 million as indemnity for damages caused by false advertising by Apple. The problem has surfaced primarily with the release of Apple’s new iOS 8 software, which consumes about 3 GB of storage of an iPhone 6. It takes about 19% of the phone’s 16 GB of storage as advertised by the smartphone manufacturer. As for other devices of Apple, it has been observed that the iOS 8 software consumes 20% of an iPhone 6 Plus’ storage and 21% of an iPad’s free space.

The plaintiffs have claimed in their report that Apple’s misrepresentations and omissions have misled its customers because the company had omitted material facts that are important for an average consumer to consider while deciding whether to buy a certain product or not. Most people try to cope up with the little space in their iPhones by backing up their photos, videos and other data on cloud services provided by Apple. However, the plaintiffs claim that too to be a trick of Apple’s to first provide lesser space on their phones and then sell cloud services such as Apple’s iCloud.

A similar suit was filed against Apple back in 2007 when angry iPod Nano customers claimed that they were provided with only 7.45 GB of storage in their 8 GB iPods; however, that case was ultimately dismissed.