While some phone service plans require lengthy contracts and cumbersome down payments, prepaid phones can be purchased, activated, and used faster than ever before. If you don’t want the hassle and ...

Last week, we highlighted the problem of cell phone jail -- that helpless feeling a lot of consumers get when they are stuck in a long-term cell phone deal and the only way out is to pay a stiff ...

Alarmed by the use of hard-to-track prepaid cell phones by terror suspects, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have introduced legislation ...

Whether or not the FCC winds up requiring wireless companies to alert customers about to get hit with overage charges, there’s one simple cost-effective way any cell-phone user can avoid fees for ...

Senator Chuck Schumer proposed a bill yesterday that would require anyone buying a prepaid cell phone to provide ID for the seller to keep so law enforcement could trace the phones if needed. The bill ...

Users of prepaid cell phones would pay a 75-cent tax, under a bill that won final approval Friday at the Oregon Legislature. (AP) SALEM – Oregon lawmakers found a tax they could agree on Friday. In a ...