{"id":568833,"date":"2010-05-18T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-18:article\/419-t-mobile-prepaid-prices-drop-lower-and-emphasize-texting"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:50:47","slug":"t-mobile-prepaid-prices-drop-lower-and-emphasize-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568833","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Prepaid Prices Drop Lower And Emphasize Texting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T-Mobile USA has unveiled two new prepaid plans that emphasize texting over talking. The announcement is in line with what other prepaid providers are offering—big bundles of services from voice to email and internet access for one low price without the commitment of a contract. <\/p>\n

While they represent fairly good bargains, it’s unclear how much this growing segment of the U.S. market is interested in adding all of the bells and whistles to a prepaid plan. Instead of offering on an unlimited basis, T-Mobile’s new plans are a little less comprehensive. For $15 a month, users can have unlimited texting and calls for 10 cents a minute. For $50 a month, you get unlimited texting and talking. For occasional data use, T-Mobile offers a “Hour Pass,” which provides unlimited Web access for 99 cents an hour.\n<\/p>\n

Sprint (NYSE: S<\/a>) is being the most aggressive in the prepaid market, by launching several brands including Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM<\/a>), Boost Mobile and even an exclusive brand available at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT<\/a>) called Common Cents Mobile. The Virgin Mobile “Beyond Talk” offer also stresses texting over talking<\/a>. At the low end, it costs $25 for unlimited messaging, email, data and Web with 300 voice minutes a month. For $40, you get 1,200 minutes, and for $60, you get unlimited calling. The Wal-Mart brand offers no unlimited buckets, but rather charges<\/a> seven cents per voice minute, and seven cents for each text message under no contract.\n<\/p>\n

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T-Mobile USA has unveiled two new prepaid plans that emphasize texting over talking. The announcement is in line with what other prepaid providers are offering—big bundles of services from voice to email and internet access for one low price without the commitment of a contract. While they represent fairly good bargains, it’s unclear how much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}