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.

Now T-Mobile Lets you Rollover your Unused Data

As part of its latest disruptive move fuelling the ongoing price war, T-Mobile has decided to allow users to roll over their unused data from one month to the next.

T-Mobile has promised people to roll over any data its customers don’t use from month to month. These include data plans ranging from 1 GB to 11 GB a month. Not only this; the deal comes with an additional 10 gigabytes of data on top of the data plans the customers are already putting into use.

So where does the act of rolling actually end?  Well, the rollover data will only be allowed to last for a year. For example, the data you didn’t use in January 2015 expires in January 2016. It is indeed great news for users. However, the operator does not clarify exactly how January’s unused data will be different from February’s unused data, which could make T-Mobile’s plan slightly tricky for customers to keep a record of.

The change will be affective for the plans of most of T-Mobile’s 50 million users, out of whom only 20% use T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan. Criticizing AT&T and Verizon for their data plan policies, T-Mobile tells users that although these companies trick them by offering more data, users ultimately end up losing it all at the end of the month. Alternately, T-Mobile has already eliminated overage fees and penalties that pop in when you use more than your allotted monthly data.

T-Mobile’s new data rollover policy is the eighth installment of T-Mobile’s “Uncarrier” strategy. T-Mobile has set its eyes on AT&T and Verizon by becoming a customer-friendly carrier who genuinely cares for its users.

In its first initiatives, T-Mobile eliminated contracts, letting customers pay lower monthly rates and buy their own phones. Next, they launched their “Jump” program that allowed customers to upgrade phones twice a year. And more recently, the telecom giant killed roaming fees and slashed per-minute and text charges.

All these changes have a lot of advantages for the customers and are definitely going to benefit them. However, the resulting competition will make the price war even fiercer. It will be interesting to see how the competition catches up!