Phone Arena has nabbed a leaked internal screenshot suggesting that Verizon will be introducing new prepaid pricing plans starting on February 1. Verizon has traditionally had a half-hearted approach to competing in the prepaid space, and these new plans don’t appear to change that. The new plans will offer users unlimited talk and text and 500MB of EVDO data for $60 a month, or unlimited talk and text and 2 GB of EVDO data for [...]

After launching shared data plans for consumers last June, Verizon is now offering the shared data option to business customers. According to a Verizon post to their website, the company’s new Share Everything Plan provides businesses up to 25 lines of unlimited minutes, texts, picture and video messages with a shareable allowance of 30 GB ($225), 40 GB ($300) and 50 GB ($375). As with their residential counterparts, customers will also pay a fee depending [...]

T-Mobile this week is expected to refresh their prepaid wireless data offerings, replacing their 5GB cap with an unlimited offer. According to leaked documents obtained by TMONews, T-Mobile will launch a $70 Unlimited no-contract plan on January 9, supplanting the current $70 tier that features a 5 GB cap. T-Mobile insists the new tier will be perfect for “perfect for video chat, streaming music/movies/TV and playing online games,” though it’s safe to assume the tier [...]

Verizon has recently tinkered with offering postpaid contract customers double data cap allotments in order to lure them to the LTE network. Now, Verizon has launched a promotion that also provides users of their most popular prepaid tier double the monthly data usage. According to the Verizon Wireless website (via Light Reading) new prepaid customers who buy and activate a new smartphone and sign up for Verizon’s $80 prepaid smartphone plan (which traditionally has offered [...]

Nintendo’s launch of their new Wii U game console this week was marred somewhat by the fact that new users were greeted with a 1 GB firmware update right out of the box. Worse, if interrupted, some users are reporting that an interrupted firmware update can result in a bricked (inoperable) game console. LA Times reporter Ben Fritz is one of the most prominent people to tweet that his system was rendered useless by an [...]

User uid://264898 writes in to note that Walmart has quietly been improving the prepaid value for their “Internet to Go” wireless broadband service. Internet on the Go piggybacks on Sprint’s network using a mobile hotspot that can connect up to five devices. The WalMart website notes that the product’s $45 refill cards, which used to provide 1 GB of usage, now offers users 4 GB of usage for the same money. Unlike some other prepaid [...]

We’ve noted that there’s several companies exploring pricing models that include base free wireless tiers, and one of the earliest is a famliar name: NetZero. The company formerly known for dial up service back in March announced that they’ve partnered with Clearwire to start offering WiMax service, and this week announced users can give away up to 1 GB of data to Facebook friends. The offerings are no contract, but require that you buy either [...]

Wireless upstart FreedomPop says the company hopes to target fixed-line broadband customers with their new service offering. The carrier just last week launched their public beta, trying something a little different by offering users up to 1 GB of free data (over the Clearwire network) if they get users to sign up for service. After that the users can get 1 GB of data for $10 a month, 5 GB for $35, and 10 GB [...]

According to a new report from ABI Research, the price of 4G data (HSPA+ and LTE technology, generally) is 20% higher than 3G services. Despite the lower cost to deliver services as technology evolves, carriers have jacked up data prices (courtesy in large part to new shared data plans) in order to offset the inevitable decline of voice minute and SMS revenues. On the positive side, ABI seems to think that competitive pressures are going [...]

Wireless upstart FreedomPop has announced they’ve opened up a public beta for their new wireless service. Just about a year ago Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstr m announced the new service, which is trying something different by offering users 500 MB of free 4G data (powered by Clearwire). From there, users gain discounts if they refer other new users, and the company ultimately hopes to let users trade unused data allowances like currency. The company’s also [...]