The Cell Plan Guide

Today, one in five cell phone users are using a prepaid cell plan.  For the first time ever the number of new prepaid subscribers has surpassed new contract customers.  A major catalyst for this trend is that today’s consumer is aggressively looking for ways to save.  As more people are carefully studying their spending habits [...]

Sprint, the nation’s third largest wireless carrier lost 578,000 postpaid customers, down from 1.25 million a year earlier. Postpaid customers are the most profitable segment of the wireless industry. Many of Sprint’s subscribers fled to the larger rivals, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Offsetting these losses in Sprint’s postpaid arena is the addition of 348,000 prepaid [...]

T-Mobile Charges T-Mobile, the country’s fourth largest wireless carrier announced that it will drop its overage charges on its 5GB monthly webConnect cell plan. Instead, customers who do go over their data limit will have their data speeds slowed. By how much? T-mobile did not say. They are only saying that in reality only a [...]

Cell Phone Contracts Analysts say that the two biggest wireless providers in the U.S.; AT&T and Verizon are having a hard time selling new contracts to cell plan subscribers.  Although it is common for the beginning of a year to produce fewer new customers for the providers (due to the influx of new phones purchased [...]

Check out this statistic: The population of the United States is 305 million people and the major wireless carriers: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile have almost 260 million cell plan subscribers. Can you say “saturation?” Of the remaining 45 million people; many don’t want a phone or are too young to have a phone. Being [...]