Lauren Goode

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Boost, Virgin Mobile Roll Out No-Contract LTE Phones

Virgin Mobile today said that it would sell the Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE smartphone with the company’s BeyondTalk unlimited data plans, marking the first LTE phone the wireless brand is offering without a contract. The smartphone is available for $300 with plans that start at $35 a month. Boost Mobile, another Sprint-owned brand, is now offering the HTC One SV phone for $300, along with Boost’s $55 Android Unlimited monthly plan. The smartphone will run on Sprint’s 3G and 4G networks (where available).

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik