READ complete story at Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance"At a time when major wireless carriers are beginning to require expensive data plans for many of their users, low-cost mobile companies keep making their prepaid calling plans broader and cheaper.
Cricket, the low-cost, pay-as-you-go wireless carrier operated by Leap Wireless (LEAP), said Tuesday that it would begin offering the nation's first $30-per-month unlimited nationwide talk and text plan. Coverage will be available in 125 U.S. cities across all 50 states.
That's $10 a month cheaper than any other prepaid nationwide unlimited plan available in the United States. Low-cost rival MetroPCS (PCS) offers a $40-a-month plan and competitor TracFone Wireless' Straight Talk has a $45-per-month plan.
As for the major carriers, Sprint's (S) Boost Mobile has a comparable prepaid plan for $50 a month, and T-Mobile and AT&T (T) both offer similar prepaid plans for $60 a month. Verizon (VZ) does not offer a comparable prepaid unlimited talk and text plan."
2 comments:
Everybody seems to be flocking to these "unlimited" deals. A recent study I read a while ago suggested that most people use their phones much less than is needed by their current plans - and yet everybody is now going "unlimited".
Just a waste of money, if you ask me. I will sign up for unlimited when it gets to $15 a month because that is what my NET10 prepaid phone is costing me. Why should I spend more if I don't USE more?
My kids don't even use the talk time every month. They all text non-stop ;-)
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