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Prepaid Mobile Broadband News: VZW 2 Offer 5 GB for $80 .mo
As competition heats up in the prepaid market, Verizon will launch a 5 GB for $80 per month, mobile broadband offering, according to a new report from Current Analysis. Virgin Mobile is offering a cheaper unlimited plan for $40 a month.The new Verizon prepaid mobile broadband plan remains in affect …
Samsung Seek Seeking To Boost Unlimited Customers with Touchscreen & QWERTY
Boost Mobile launched the Samsung Seek (SPH-m350), Boost Mobile’s first touchscreen device with a slide-out QWERTY keypad offers social-0networking voice, text messaging, Web, e-mail, IM and calls to 411 for just $50 a month without an annual contract. Features include a 2.6 inch touchscreen, …
Cricket Launches New Plans/Services with Tiered/Capped Mobile Broadband
Cricket has changed its plans with new plans for smarpthones, and for mobile data users.Cricket’s new service plans start at $35 and offer unlimited nationwide talk and text. Other plans at $45, $55 and $60 offer additional options and features, including unlimited picture and v…
Android News: Zio Coming to Cricket – Reservations Taken
It's about time that a low-cost all you can get prepaid carrier offers an Android smartphone. The Kyocera Zio M6000 was revealed at CTIA earlier this year. The Cricket website is now taking reservations for the Zio and offering free overnight shipping coupons.It may be the first Android phone …
T-Mo Offers Mo’ with $50 Unlimited Text an Voice Prepaid T-Mobile Deal
T-Mobile is joining the other prepaid offerings at the coveted $50 pricepoint. T-Mobile will be launching new prepaid plans starting May 19 that are a $15 per month unlimited texting and video (10 cents a minute voice) plan and a $50 per month unlimited voice and texting plan with no per-minute fee…
Common Cents Prepaid Coming from Walmart and Sprint
Walmart is entering the prepaid market big time with Common Cents from Sprint: a new pay-as-you-go wireless sevrice with 7-cent minutes that Round Down and 7-cent text messages rolling out exclusively to 700 Walmart stores, starting May 15. The new brand, debuts May 15 exclusively in more than 700…
BlackBerry, LG Rumors Unlimited Data Plan $25 from Virgin~But Only 300 Calling Minutes
The price wars are continuing for prepaid subscribers. Sprint’s Virgin Mobile now claims it is the lowest-priced* BlackBerry *service plan on the market. Virgin has cut prices by including unlimited text, data, web and email while capping only voice calls. The new plans start at $25 a mo…
Prepaid Cell Phones 65% of New Subs, Grew 17% Says NMRC
Consumers are cutting costs and opting less expensive prepaid cell phones, a prediction that was forecast last year by the New Millennium Research Council (NMRC). The 4th quarter of 2010 marked the first time that the number of new prepaid wireless cus…
Android Zio and BlackBerry Curve 8530 Coming to Cricket’s National Coverage Cheap Plans
Cricket has gone nationwide covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. More of interest however to BlackBerry and Android fans is that you will able to get the new Android Zio M600 and BlackBerry Curve 8530 with prepaid plans. You will still have to pay for the smartphone upf…
More Sophisticated Prepaid Use Coming to US, Says NMRC
Prepaid is getting more attention as prepaid cell phone companies are introducing more sophisticated handsets that can be embraced by younger text- and Web-oriented wireless customers, according to New Millennium Research (NMRC) executive director Allen Hepner.Hepner, said that the arrival of the mo…
T-Mobile Completes PrePaid BlackBerry Plans: T-Mobile Complete
T-Mobile has started offering T-Mobile Complete, a pre-packaged no-annual contract solution that offers the value of a monthly plan and the first pay-in-advance BlackBerry smartphone from a national U.S. carrier. Prepaid BlackBerry smartphones include the BlackBerry Curve 8520 for $299.99 and BlackB…
Straight Talkers Go Straight to Walmart for $45 Unlimited Txt, Web & Min.
Walmart is offering Straight Talk, a new no-contract cellular deal at Walmart.com. Straight Talk has two prepaid plans at $30and $45 a month.To help drive down no-contract wireless pricing for customers, Walmart has Straight Talk providing customers the following two options: Straight Talk …
AT&T Offers Unlimited Talk and Text Prepaid
Boosted by it the competition of prepaid unlimited offerings AT&T will start offering a unlimited voice and text prepaid deal on feature phones starting October 12. AT&T's Unlimited Talk and Tex is $60 a month. The new GoPhone prepaid feature package offers unlimited nationwide c…
Prepaid Hot For Business, Says Compass Intelligence
Compass Intelligence just released a new report on the US prepaid wireless market. Prepaid is the hot growth area right now, even in businesses. Small Businesses are even hotter for wireless. They employ more workers and are more mobile. Now is the time for new offers for these customers -not just b…
Cricket Hits Unlimited Web Ball With More Web for Free In Plans
Cricket Communications followed MetroPCS' lead and enhanced service plans with more web and unlimited features. Cricket's $40 monthly plan, which already includes unlimited voice, long distance, domestic and international text and picture messaging, and nationwide cov…
In PrePaid Rankings NET10 Ranked Highest, Says JD Power
According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 U.S. Wireless Prepaid Customer Satisfaction Index Study, Prepaid carrier NET10 ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction among non-contract wireless user. The study also showed an increase in monthly plan services, pay-as-you-go has a higher satis…
Cricket, Boost Top Increase in Prepaid Searches, Says ComScore
ComScore, released a quarterly review of the U. S. prepaid wireless industry based on online visitation and search referral activity. It showed strong gains in online activity as consumers increasingly turn to cost-effective wireless service alternatives during the economic downturn. The combi…
PrePaid Strong, Says IDC
During the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09), the top 10 carriers in the United States added just under 3.5 million retail net subscribers. Out of these retail net subscribers, 75% were prepaid users. Over 20 million gross retail subscribers were added for the top 10 carriers during the quarter. The tota…
Virgin Mobile vs. Boost Which is the Cheapest and Best Deal?
Unlimited wars have heated up again this week. On Thursday, Virgin Mobile revealed their Totally Unlimited prepaid calling plan for $49.99 on April 15, 2009, and "Pink Slip Protection". Within a day, Boost sent out a news release to compare their unlimited service with Virgin Mobile's unlimite…
Cricket Unlimited Comes to Chicago with Lots of Cheap Discount Deals
Cricket Communications announced that Cricket coverage is now available in the greater Chicago area. Cricket will introduce its Cricket unlimited wireless services through the rollout of retail outlets on a geographic basis, completing the initial distribution footprint over the next 30 days. It l…
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