Posts Tagged cell phones
Boost Mobile Offers Alternative to Tossing Old Phones
Posted by admin in boost mobile on March 25, 2009
Boost Mobile Prepaid helps turns the cell phone world green.
Boost Mobile has been making noise since early this year when they released their $50 monthly unlimited plan. This move put the company in the news quite a bit and may have had some influence on Verizon’s prepaid unlimited plan that was released a few months later.
Boost is trying to do its part to help keep landfills free of “e-waste” by offering a a new starter kit ($19.99) that comes with a SIM Card that can be inserted into any Boost Mobile or Nextel cell phone and which instantly awards the user $10 in call credit.
This is also a way for Boost to get more people easy access to the new unlimited plan, which is part of the goal–not to take anything away from the honest effort to get more people to use older phones. Let’s be honest, they are a business and the phone purchase is not where these companies make their money. They make it from having a large amount of subscribers.
Cell phone recycling is a great move for anyone and I think anything a company can do to try to deter waste is commendable. If you have a used cell phone lying around there is a great program called cell phones for soldiers that helps US sodiers stationed overseas stay in contact with their families affordably.
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T-Mobile $50 Unlimited Plan Unveiled
Posted by admin in prepaid cell phones on March 2, 2009
T-Mobile has released its $50 unlimited voice plan on a nationwide basis after a short test in San Francisco. This plan only affects current T-Mobile subscribers who have been with the company for 22 months. It includes unlimited minutes.
There is a definite shift in the sentiments of mobile phone users occurring, which is a good thing. Many people are now seeing that they have more options above and beyond a monthly contract plan from one of the “big four,” for which they may be overpaying. A lot of people save money using prepaid cell phones, and when that happens, people wake up.
Wireless providers like T-Mobile are waking up and seeing that there is quite a market out there for prepaid and they will have to make their customers happy in order to keep them as subscribers. One of the reasons large cell phone companies have been hesitant with prepaid plans is because users can leave at any time. Think about it. If you owned one of these companies, you would want your customers to get into the “new every two” cycle, and stuck to a contract.
But now that the information is out there and people are hurting financially, many people are switching to pay as you go plans and even changing their phone habits.
Read more about prepaid cell phones.
Prepaid Cell Phones are the Answer for the Budget-Conscious
Posted by admin in prepaid cell phones on February 3, 2009
Cutting Costs with Prepaid Phones
It is no surprise that people are trying to cut their budgets. ”Trying” is one way to put it, “being forced to” is another way to put it. Times are tough and individuals, as well as companies, are scaling back by trimming a few dollars here and a few bucks there.
For many people, decreasing the size of their cell phone bill is one immediate way to create savings. No longer are prepaid phones only for the credit-challenged, they are now becoming popular with “mainstream” phone users who need to be more conscious of what they spend. A big part of the reason prepaid options are only now becoming popular to a more widespread part of the population is because it is a part of the industry that hasn’t been heavily advertised.
If you think about the last cell phone commercial you’ve seen, you probably picture the “can you hear me now?” guy for Verizon contract based plans. You have not seen a commercial for Tracfone or Cricket, which makes sense because they probably would have to charge more if they were doing large media buys during football games. I read somewhere that wireless companies spend around $400 per subscription that they sign up, which means they are going to want to lock customers into a contract so that they can recoup the investment and earn profit.
I hope this does not come off as being really negative toward contract cell phone offers, because you can find good deals on month to month contracts, especially if you use your phone a lot, like to text, and have other data usage charges.
The wireless industry is slowing down in the early part of this year, but the bright spots are the prepaid cell phones, which have gained new users and seem to be catching on as viable phone alternatives. The thing that consumers need to do is match the cell phone plan to their actual needs.
Read this article about prepaid that sums up what is going on in the industry. T-Mobile prepaid and Tracfone have competitive plans.
