T-Mobile

I think that T-Mobile will be our next wireless phone carrier.  They are breaking the rules on the big wireless carriers and consumers are the ones benefitting.  No more two-year contracts? Yea!  No roaming charges in over 100 countries?Yea!  No early termination fees?  Wow.  A rare example of the marketplace doing a good thing for consumers besides gouging them.

Might be sooner rather than later.  Now if I could find a good replacement for Comcast and home internet.  Comcast is getting far too big and they want to get much, much bigger.  That usually leads to higher prices for consumers.

T-Mobile Turns an Industry on Its Ear

The New York Times

A rash of consumer-friendliness has broken out across the mobile data industry. Over the last year, the four major carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile — have cut prices and offered greater flexibility in how they sell their voice, text and broadband services. The industry could be on the verge of an all-out price war.

Who is responsible for this blessed state of affairs? 

Credit must go to the United States government.

In 2011, officials at the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department moved to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. That kept the struggling, fourth-place carrier alive as an independent firm. And it led John J. Legere, T-Mobile’s flamboyant, foul-mouthed chief executive, to brand his company the “uncarrier,” and inaugurate a string of measures that have turned every accepted practice in the mobile business on its head.

T-Mobile’s resurgence, and the effect it has had on the larger market for cellular service, may hold important lessons for regulators who will soon sit in judgment over the latest enormous broadband proposal, Comcast’s deal to gobble up Time Warner Cable.

Read the rest here, and check out T-Mobile here.  Finally, a way to stick it to the big monsters.