T-Mobile, a popular wireless provider, added 621,000 new customers in the last three months of 2008. What is interesting is that well over half of these new subscribers signed up for T-Mobile prepaid service.
While eight out of ten of T-Mobile’s customers are still on a contract plan, it still seems to signal a shift that many more people are looking into prepaid cell phone offers. Some of the old stigma of prepaid is wearing thin. The ideas that only people with bad credit or people who can only afford a lesser service would go with prepaid are being shown to be myths.
These days, people are looking for other cell phone plan options, especially as prepaid cell phone users typically pay less than their contract counterparts. Furthermore, people signed onto a contract tend to overpay because they typically do not use all of their minutes each month.
Prepaid is not for everyone, however. Those who practically live on their phone and constantly text message and surf the web from their handset are generally better off with a contract package with various bundles for text, web, and data use.
The growth of T-Mobile’s Prepaid subscription base just shows that people are getting more interested in pay as you go service. I imagine we will see a greater shift as this year unfolds.
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