T-Mobile to sell iPhone 5 amid new no-contract plans

The iPhoneiPhone, and other smartphones, including the HTC One and Z10, can be used with three different cellular network plans that start at $50 a month for unlimited voice, text and 500MB of data. The other two plans cost $60 for an added 2 GB per month of data, and $70 for unlimited data. All three plans have unlimited voice and text. Alles zu iPhone auf CIO.de

T-Mobile said it will also offer the Samsung Galaxy S4 starting May 1, but didn't list pricing. The BlackberryBlackberry Z10 will cost, $532 or a down payment of $99.99 with 24 monthly payments of $18, while the HTC One will be sold for $99 on an initial down payment. Alles zu Blackberry auf CIO.de

T-Mobile also said it launched LTE wireless service in seven cities today: Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Jose and Washington. Service to New York is coming soon, T-Mobile John Legere said in remarks at the New York City event.

Referring to the iPhone 5 availability, Legere said that "the experience will beautiful day one" over several networks including the 1900 band for HSPA+, which offers speeds above 10 Mbps and theoretical speeds up to 42 Mbps.

"If you come to T-Mobile you have signed your last contract," Legere said. "If we suck this month, drop us!"