cell phone providers

On Tuesday, Sprint yanked a promo video that came under fire on social media over its use of the world “ghetto.” The spot shows Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure on a “listening tour” asking a customer, a white woman, what she thinks of rival cell phone company T-Mobile. “I’m going to tell you a carrier name, and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest prepaid mobile provider, TracFone Wireless, will pay $40 million to settle government claims that it misled millions of smartphone customers with promises of unlimited data service. The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that TracFone’s advertising promised unlimited data, but the company then drastically slowed down consumers’ data speeds — […]