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t-mobile wants to shake up the wireless industry again I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update t-mobile continues to grab media attention with more bold changes to its billing practices in its latest stunt t-mobile announced that it will not charge customers and overage fee if they go over their allotted Voice Minutes data or text messages of course that only applies to people without an unlimited plan but if you have the brand-new simple starter plan here's how it'll work forty dollars a month gets you unlimited talk and text but with data you're limited to 500 megabytes and when she hit that monthly limit your data service is suspended until you choose to buy more data so you're not surprised with an overage fee but t-mobile is also rallying for the other major carriers to drop their overage fees t-mobile even started a change.org petition to abolish fees at AT&T Verizon and Sprint and that's not all t-mobile is doing to win over customers just a few days ago the feisty carrier is leading customers at a tablet to their existing plans at no charge and giving away an extra one gig of data a month for free until the end of the year and in 2015 it'll cost ten dollars a month for that tablet data t-mobile is the fourth place US carrier right now so it has to be bold to grow against larger counterparts and speaking of which verizon made its own small change in plans if you bring your own smartphone or your own tablet to verizon you don't have to pay as much in your monthly bill as someone who does buy a new device with a contract it's part of the more everything planned bringing your old device could save ten dollars off the monthly bill all other carriers have been offering a break to customers that bring in their own devices but only now verizon is finally doing the same it's been long rumored that Amazon is working on a smartphone and the Wall Street Journal stirred up the buzz on this again with a report that Amazon plans to show off a new phone in June and release it in September well we've heard rumors about an Amazon smartphone since 2011 but this time around there are new details about the phone it's said to have several sensors to track your eye movement and the journal reports that the screen could have a 3d effect that doesn't require glasses whatever gimmick amazon is crafting it will need to focus on price to compete against apple and samsung amazon has been successful by undercutting the competition on its kindle tablets let's see if it can also offer low prices on a phone and then of course make all that money back from us on all the movies and books we buy that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey