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In yet another sign that money is tight, more people are getting prepaid cellphones instead of the traditional cellphone plans where customers get a bill at the end of the month, according to a ...
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A prepaid mobile phone provides most of the services offered by a mobile phone operator. The main difference is that with prepaid phones, payment for service is made before use. As calls and texts are made, and as data is used, deductions are made against the prepaid balance amount until no funds remain (at which time services stop functioning).
The history of the prepaid mobile phones began in the 1990s when mobile phone operators sought to expand their market reach. Up until this point, mobile phone services were exclusively offered on a postpaid basis (contract-based), which excluded individuals with poor credit ratings and minors under the age of 18 (the typical age of contractual .)
Subscriber counts are sourced from each companies quarterly reports. Subscriber counts include what each companies quarterly report states, whether it be just postpaid and prepaid (as in the case of Boost Mobile and UScellular) or a combination of postpaid, prepaid and fixed-wireless access as in the case of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon).
Apple's (AAPL) iconic iPhone was the most popular single mobile device in 2009, but Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry models and LG's product line also performed well, according to new data ...
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