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Mysteries and Omissions: Page Plus coverage area expands due to Verizon/Alltel merger
Posted by Derek in alltel prepaid cell phones, prepaid cell phones, verizon prepaid cell phones on April 23, 2009
When companies distribute a press release, it’s usually concise, with lots of info about the wondrous events and happenings of a company. Obfuscation isn’t usually in the agenda when writing them. Apparently, Page Plus uses a different technique.
This release informs people that Page Plus Cellular has “recently expanded its coverage area.” Verizon and Alltel merged recently, and this benefits Page Plus cellular as its child network, so no more roaming charges in the expanded area, so good news for all.
What’s really weird about this release is: there’s no mention of Verizon and Alltel at all. Listen to this wording: the expansion is “due to a merger of unrelated carriers that was announced in June 2008 and finalized in January of this year.” In other words, Verizon and Alltel. It’s odd as a MVNO that these carriers were not mentioned at all.
As far as Page Plus goes, they now have coverage in the Central Plain states, which they did not have before. Good stuff, and more convenient for customers of all 3 carriers of prepaid cell phones.
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A Little Mud With Your Monday?: Verizon CEO talks down Sprint/Boost Mobile
Posted by Derek in boost mobile, verizon prepaid cell phones on April 20, 2009
Boost Unlimited is offering a $50 per month unlimited prepaid calling, texting, and data plan, and that’s rocked the prepaid industry to a degree. And that includes taxes and fees too. But apparently some rival companies think they’re offering too much in the prepaid cell phones sector. Verizon for instance, it appears.
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg thinks that Sprint is short-sighted and their offering will eventually cause Sprint to turn to ashes. This is a quote from a blog about statements made by Seidenberg, told by InformationWeek’s Eric Zeman:
Seidenberg had some unkind things to say about its chief CDMA competitor, Sprint. Sprint’s pre-paid arm, Boost Mobile, recently announced an all-you-can-eat plan for $50 per month. Seidenberg doesn’t think Sprint’s network can handle it. He said, “I don’t know what Sprint thinks it is,” and he believes the increased network demand will cause Sprint to “eventually self-destruct.”
Sprint might be a little confused right now, but what they are causing is a price war in the prepaid space, which is something it really needed (and what Verizon doesn’t need really; the cause for the venomous words, more than likely). Virgin Mobile has already lowered their unlimited prepaid plan to $50/mo as well.
It’ll be interesting to see how this shakes out, but for now it’s safe to say that Verizon and Sprint aren’t sending each other Christmas cards this year.
Some Good Business News (for a change): MetroPCS has a great 1st Quarter
Posted by Derek in prepaid cell phones, tracfone prepaid cell phone, verizon prepaid cell phones, virgin mobile on April 11, 2009
With 520,00 new subscribers, network launches in New York and Boston, and releasing their first Blackberry unit in 4Q of last year, MetroPCS certainly is on a nice run of late, you could say. So how did their first quarter go, you might ask? Even better than the last, adding 684,000 more subscribers. The only sore spot is all the customers they lost during the quarter.
Not all the news was rosy; their turnover rate was 5%, up from 4% last quarter. Only a high-priced phone binds them to Metro service and other carriers of prepaid cell phones, so Metro is sometimes seen as a temporary solution for cell phone needs. Even with a proprietary phone, some carriers now can flash your internals to work with their network, so their churn rate might always be a little higher than the norm.
MetroPCS now claims over 6 million customers in the US. This kind of subscriber explosion isn’t all that likely in the next 6 months or so; they did a little better by launching their services in new (and large) markets. Still, some experts are predicting they’ll hit 7+ million subscribers by the end of the year, which are figures most companies in their position would dream of.
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