Charge's Mission

At Charge, our mission is to help usher in a future where mobile connectivity is simpler and priced more transparently. We want to make it easy for customers to pay only for the services they need. We made a lot of progress towards that goal with our LTE mobile data-only plan.

LTE Data-Only Plan

When we started Charge, we wanted to help usher in a future where mobile connectivity was simpler and priced more transparently. We wanted to make it easy for customers to pay only for the mobile services they need. So we launched our LTE data-only plan for all Sprint-compatible devices.

For a long time now we've had some customers with iPhones receive a SIM and activate it from their Charge account, only to report some very strange behavior when they pop the SIM into their device. The status bar will show "Sprint LTE" for somewhere between two and three seconds.

Customer Satisfaction

We’re very proud to have reached so many people in the short couple of months since launching our data-only mobile internet plan. We’ve sold more than 750 gigabytes so far and created many happy customers in the process.

There are a lot of things inside our homes besides our computers and mobile devices connected to the internet today. Thermostats, coffee machines, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners can now all depend on an internet connection for critical functions. And that makes the WiFi router in your home very important.

For too long, mobile carriers have offered service plans on their terms. Contracts, activation fees, usage caps, absurdly high overage rates, and breakage were all standard. We were all beat down into complacency by lack of competition.

The number of connected devices in the world overtook the number of people on earth in 2014. The same year, nearly half a billion new connected devices were activated. Among those device activations were smartphones, tablets, mobile hotspots, and wearables.

By now, most of us are accustomed to the way mobile carriers price their data plans. We typically drop $20 to $50 each month on a few gigabytes. If we use more than our monthly data allotment, we’re hit with inflated overage fees.

Yay, Turkey Day has finally arrived! It is only the first of a series of eating events (aka family gatherings) that mark the official holiday season in the US.

Have you ever wondered why mobile carriers bundle all their services together? The vast majority of activities we do on our mobile devices use data only, yet mobile carriers don’t offer data-only plans for phones.

Last week, T-Mobile announced that ⅓ of its calls are now made over VoLTE. Verizon deployed nationwide VoLTE in September 2014, selling over 35 million VoLTE-capable devices since the launch.

Grumpy Cat is likely the most famous cat on earth with over 8,151,214 Facebook likes to date. So yeah, she is pretty famous.

The US mobile market is undergoing a ton of change. Just over the past few months, we saw Verizon follow T-Mobile’s lead and do away with contracts.

Back in August, we officially rolled out Charge Messenger for web alongside important upgrades to our iOS and Android apps.

Questions to Carriers started to explain the constantly changing scope of mobile networks. We broke down the difference between CDMA and GSM network infrastructures.

Over the last year, US consumers have seen some major shifts in the mobile carrier market.

Last week, we discovered most phone upgrade programs are contracts in disguise. If consumers opt for one of the financing/upgrade plans from Sprint, Verizon, or AT&T, they are forced to use service provided by that carrier.

Recently, we updated Charge Messenger with our +GIF button. The +GIF button gives typical textual conversations character and emotion.

Throttling has been a hot topic in the news as of late.

Remember the short-lived days of PDAs. The notion of a personal digital assistant never fully came to fruition as a standalone device.

Round up the fireworks, spark up the grills, and track down your vintage 4th of July t-shirt!

Everyone knows GIFs make conversations better. That’s why we’re excited to introduce super-simple GIF sharing in Charge Messenger.