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...Subscribers download an app and pay a monthly fee to watch unlimited movies....
...For $9.99 a month, users will get unlimited access to the standard library of 30m songs, plus the ability to remove advertising from all YouTube videos....
...The deal came as Sony closed Music Unlimited — a Spotify competitor — opting instead to make Spotify available to the 64m users of the PlayStation Network....
...Spotify users can listen to as much free music as they want for an unlimited period of time, although they cannot choose tracks on its mobile app or listen offline....
...Others say that, far from producing one original idea after another, King’s other titles are too similar to Candy Crush, suggesting that the company has cracked one kind of game that players could soon tire...
...(Reuters) “AT&T executives are laying the groundwork internally for a potential takeover of Vodafone next year, mapping out a strategy for a complex deal with Europe’s largest mobile carrier, people familiar...
...But in the years since, the successful deregulation and privatisation of telecommunications, and the boost to growth and efficiency from mobile phones, have helped to sway opinion....
...Most US mobile operators have since abandoned these unlimited data plans in favour of mixed buckets of voice minutes and data....
...Shares in Sprint Nextel hit two-year lows on Monday after analysts said the third-largest US mobile phone network may need to issue new shares....
...Mobile data use has grown at a staggering rate in the past few years, and the increase has prompted carriers to look for alternatives to flat-rate unlimited plans....
...Sprint Nextel’s move follows the decision by AT&T late last year to abandon its flat rate ‘unlimited’ data plan in favour of a tiered approach....
...AT&T, the second-largest US mobile operator and the exclusive provider of wireless service for Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, is to scrap its $30-a-month unlimited mobile data plan and introduce tiered...
...Sprint, by contrast, offers unlimited mobile data deals. Sprint continues to make losses but it is generating cash. It reported $2.8bn of free cash flow in 2009, up 58 per cent compared with 2008....
...Mr Stephenson says average revenue per user – the amount of money spent each month by mobile customers – should increase with the abolition of unlimited data plans....
...The fact that Ms Cross and her generation consume media differently from their predecessors – they have grown up streaming video and will pay for the convenience of watching an unlimited amount of what they...
...At present, Clearwire’s mobile offerings include a $45-a-month unlimited data plan – significantly cheaper than the mobile data plans from rivals such as Verizon Wireless and AT&T....
...Sprint lost 135,000 net retail subscribers in the quarter, but losses in its core post-paid mobile business were slightly lower than investors had feared, and its pre-paid Boost Unlimited service, which...
...This costs 25 times as much as the remaining 750 megabytes, which are available for a $30 unlimited data plan....
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...Boost Mobile, Sprint Nextel’s prepaid mobile unit, launched a $50-a-month nationwide unlimited calling plan on Thursday, raising fears of a US pricing war and sending shares of rivals Leap Wireless and MetroPCS...
...That includes Alcoa, the US’s largest aluminium maker, Viacom, which owns the MTV Network, and Sprint Nextel, the mobile network operator....
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