Take, for example, phone contracts. Up until recently, most of us bought our phones along with phone service, and most of the cost of our expensive smartphones was buried deep inside the carrier ...

It's getting cheaper and easier to own a smartphone, but is there a downside to breaking away from the Big Four? Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog ...

NEW YORK — Verizon, the nation's and Nebraska's largest wireless provider, on Thursday will stop offering phones at discounted prices when customers sign two-year service contracts, but will also ...

If it's good enough for racing queen Danica Patrick, it's good enough for you. At least that's the thinking behind the latest ad campaign by Boost Mobile, a prepaid, or "no-contract," mobile service ...

Sprint is getting rid of two-year smartphone contracts, following a move made previously by T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless. "By the end of the year, customers of the No. 4 wireless company will have ...

Inflation-linked price rises for mobile phone contracts and broadband services have been banned, with a new rules laid out ...

Since 2013, major cell phone carriers have been abandoning the industry-standard two-year contract and offering contract-free plans, decoupling phone purchases from data plans. It started with ...

Image source: Robert Nelson. You won't be getting a subsidy on your new smartphone in 2016. AT&T and Sprint are the last two of the four major wireless carriers to do away with the two-year phone ...

When is the right age to get your child a cellphone? Contributor Amy Davis explores this topic and shares a smartphone contract she has with her daughter. She wasn’t the ONLY one without a phone, but ...