In Tech: Lifetime video service, Sprint's new price plans
[...] HBO has made its shows and movies available online for $15 a month to people who don't pay for cable, while Showtime has an $11-a-month service debuting this month.
Rather, the Lifetime Movie Club service will let viewers watch a rotating pool of movies, about 30 at a time, from Lifetime's library of more than 300 films.
Some of our biggest events on Lifetime are the movies, said Dan Suratt, executive vice president for digital at A+E Networks, which owns Lifetime as well as the History channel and A+E.
While other online video services such as Dish Network's Sling TV are aimed at people who don't subscribe to cable, Suratt said he expects the movie app to be "entirely complementary" to Lifetime's TV channel.
Sprint is introducing an "all-in" pricing plan, meaning a single, $80-a-month price that includes both a smartphone and a service plan for voice, text and unlimited data.
With the new pricing, Sprint is going back to how all wireless plans used to be sold.
[...] recently, phone companies routinely offered subsidies on phones in exchange for two-year contracts and made up for that in higher monthly fees.