When my kids turned 10 and got their first phones, my husband and I made them sign a contract. They're now teenagers, and that contract still works. The agreement was simple: the phone doesn't belong ...

Longer contracts have become South Africa’s answer to unaffordable smartphones - but at a big long-term cost to consumers.

NEW YORK (AP) — T-Mobile USA, the struggling No. 4 cellphone company, is ditching plans centered on familiar two-year contracts in favor of selling phones on installment plans. T-Mobile is the first ...

A passenger check her cell phone before a flight, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, in Boston. The Federal Aviation Administration issued new guidelines Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, under which passengers will be ...

Verizon, the nation's largest wireless provider, will stop offering phones at discounted prices when customers sign two-year service contracts. The move was made in the name of simplification, but it ...