Verizon Wireless customers now have a new option for enhancing wireless coverage inside homes where location, geography or structural conditions interfere with reception. Customers can purchase the Verizon Wireless Network Extender online, by phone or at select Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, allowing them to enhance the signal inside their homes using any Verizon Wireless phone.

Verizon Wireless Network Extender – a “mini-cell site” manufactured by Samsung – is about the size of a wireless router box or small attache case and routes Verizon Wireless calls through the customer’s home broadband Internet connection. Network Extender is easy to set up and ready to use right out of the box and can provide coverage in an area of up to 5.000 square feet. The price is $249.99, plus local taxes, and there are no monthly fees.
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Verizon Wireless customers in the market for a new phone may want to wait a bit before bringing home the latest and greatest Verizon has to offer. We have it on good authority that Verizon will be discounting a handful of handsets and a few broadband access modems, possibly as soon as January 22nd. This would be an unusual out of cycle discount as the current rebate sheet continues until January 31st. Select hardware from Verizon Wireless, LG, Casio, Motorola, Samsung and RIM will supposedly see their mail-in rebates increased from $50 to $70. Sure the out of pocket expense is the same but a $20 discount is a $20 discount even if it comes in the form of a rebate check. With the current state of the economy, we’ll take any discount we can get. Hit the jump for a full list of discounted hardware according to our ninja.

Casio G’zOne Boulder
LG VX5500
Verizon Wireless Cdm8950
Verizon Wireless Blitz
Motorola W755
Motorola Vu204
Motorola Vu30 Rapture
Motorola Krave zn4
Motorola Adventure V750
Motorola Z6c and Z6cx
BlackBerry Storm
BlackBerry 8830 world edition
Samsung U810 Renown
Verizon Wireless Pc5750 EV-DO Rev.A PC Card
Verizon Wireless Um175 EV-DO Rev.A USB Modem

One of our secret agents sent in some info about the upcoming FIDO BlackBerry 8100 launch. He found the info on Howard Forums but I cannot find the thread now.

FIDO is Launching BIS Services along with the Blackberry Pearl 8100 on February 4th.

The Pearl will be priced at:

$400 MTM / No Contract
$350 on a 2 Year
$25 on a 3 year w/ Voice + Data (no minimum monthly total cost required).
The data plans will be:
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Rogers has just released a slew of new BlackBerry data plans for your emailing and browsing pleasure. There’s still no unlimited BIS option, which is a bit confounding given the upcoming unlimited iPhone Data plan, but this is Rogers after all, so we’re not terribly shocked. The new plans breakdown as follows:

$30 – 300 MB
$60 – 1 GB
$80 – 3 GB
$100 – 6 GB

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The Alltel LG AX300 is now available. The Alltel LG AX300 is a brand new stylish & compact phone available at the carrier. The new handset only costs $0.99 after rebates and 2 year agreement, so it’s hard to beat that. Of course, you can’t expect the best phone for $1, so it is a pretty basic handset.

The Alltel LG AX300 features include:
- VGA camera with picture messaging
- Bluetooth
- speakerphone
- Celltop ready
- GPS capable & it is BREW enabled.

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We have reviewed the original one, we have seen one with diamonds, another one with Platinum, and now it’s Peter Aloisson’s turn to enchant us with this mix of 18 carat white gold, 680 pieces pink and white diamonds of 21.5 carat.

It can be yours if you have $132000 lying around in your purse.

Koodo Mobile has been a little quiet recently, but that is all going to chance now that the carrier has added the LG Shine in an exclusive gray color. With the LG Shine already launching on Telus, Koodo Mobile users now have a chance to get their hands on a quality handset with its 2.0 megapixel camera and microSD slot.

The Koodo Mobile LG Shine will be available for $225 without contract and should have no problem delivering significant sales figures. In case you didn’t catch the magnitude of the no contract price, Telus currently sells the LG Shine for $399.99 sans contract. While Koodo Mobile is a brand of Telus, it seems the carrier is playing favorites with their phone pricing.

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Launch in Canada will be the Mike i877 in bright red on the Telus network. With Telus already offering the Mike i877 in Black, the red will also be designed by Pininfarina fine Italian sports cars. Working under the new Phoenix platform with the addition of the push open flip, this 1.3 megapixel phone features Bluetooth and VibraCall technology. The Telus Motorola Mike i877 will be available for $149 on a 3 year contract, $199 on a 2 year and $299 on a 1 year.