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| Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Sprint is shuttering its Zact service in favor of an in-house customizable prepaid plan. Zact was a Sprint MVNO that allowed users to buy voice, text, and data instead of minutes and megabytes. Like Zact, Sprint’s new plan is powered by ItsOn, a startup backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. Sprint recently signed a multi-year agreement with ItsOn. Zact customers are being told that their service will soon be discontinued, but that they will be able to move to the new Sprint plan. In other news, BlackBerry has more information about its upcoming Passport smartphone. For more on that, see the video below. |
Other top stories: Verizon claims more than 72,500 government subpoenas received this year Verizon noted that the most recent information requests were connected to just 0.1% of its U.S. customers. … Read MoreVodafone taps Alcatel-Lucent for Project Spring small cells The vendor will be able to bid on metro cell deployments in all countries in which Vodafone is deploying. In other news from Europe, the UK may pass emergency legislation that would impact carriers. … Read More Alcatel-Lucent small cells integrated with Ericsson LTE network As operators build heterogeneous networks to expand coverage and capacity, they are ready to work with multiple vendors. … Read More |
