If you’re already a Spectrum TV or internet customer, it might make sense to put your smartphone on Spectrum Mobile. This is especially true nowadays as the company recently upgraded its strategy.

With all of the hoopla surrounding the iPhone, we have all forgotten about the most important development of today's release: a new way to activate a cell phone. Don Reisinger CNET contributor Don ...

If you went the prepaid route and ordered T-Mobile's no-contract iPhone 6, you may have no idea what to do once it arrives. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, ...

Virgin Mobile USA announced that all new customers, as well as existing customers who upgrade to new handsets, will now be able to activate their phones over the air. Phones are programmed ...

Verizon appears to be incentivizing consumers to make purchases online rather than at one of its brick-and-mortar retail stores, as CNET reports that the mobile carrier is lowering activation and ...

You generally can't use an Apple iPhone on a cell network if it's never been activated with such a network, although once it is activated you can remove your SIM card or simply never connect to the ...

When Apple announced the iPhone 14 lineup a little over a week ago, the company confirmed that customers would be able to pre-order three iPhone 14 variants starting September 9. Apple also confirmed ...

The iPhone X is now widely available across the United States, but some new iPhone X owners aren't able to start using their new phones due to carrier activation issues and congestion. The issue ...

AT&T has raised its non-contract phone activation and upgrade fee from $20 to $25, the latest increase for a fee that didn't even exist until July 2015. As the mobile carrier switched from contracts ...