{"id":5173,"date":"2013-03-15T16:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:24:40","slug":"mvno-ting-will-launch-samsung-galaxy-s4-htc-one-36560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/ting\/mvno-ting-will-launch-samsung-galaxy-s4-htc-one-36560\/","title":{"rendered":"MVNO Ting will launch Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Time was, when you wanted a new, top of the line smartphone, you had to go to one of the contract carriers. Few, if any, prepaid services offered the best and brightest. That started to change a bit last year, when a few prepaid carriers picked up the iPhone. Later a few more picked up the Samsung Galaxy S3. While the great majority of their smartphone offerings are from the mid- and low-tier pools, these high-end offerings gave prepaid carriers something more to offer their customers. Yet in most of those cases, the prepaid carrier in question was either a carrier on its own, or a subsidiary of a larger carrier. Few, if any, MVNOs have offered high-end smartphones. That's why Ting's recent announcement seems so out of place.\n<!--more-->\nThis week on their company blog they announced that they will not only carry the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S4, but also the HTC One. Additionally, they say that they&#8217;ll have &#8220;an LTE device up for pre-order within six weeks.&#8221; That seems odd, because the HTC One is an LTE device, as is the S4.\nTing is quickly turning into the MVNO to which all others should aspire. They might not sell many HTC One and Galaxy S4 units &#8212; they will cost full retail price, which is a major obstacle for consumers. 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