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2. Even the Best Prepaid Plans Go Astray - AOL

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   First quarters are supposed to be the best time of year for this country's prepaid mobile operators. But it didn't turn out that way for the two largest pay-as-you-go carriers. MetroPCS (NYS: PCS ...

3. Cricket's New iPhone Prepaid Plan: Cheaper, But Is It ... - AOL

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   Cricket gives prepaid customers two prepaid options for Apple handsets. An eight-gigabyte iPhone 4 runs $399.99; the more modern 4S runs $499.99 and comes with 16 gigs of storage capacity.

4. How to Find the Cheapest Smartphone Plan - AOL

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   If you don't have an old smartphone to use on one of these plans, you could buy a used one from a website such as eBay-- prices vary, but an AT&T-compatible iPhone 5 generally runs around $300 ...

5. Prepaid mobile phone - Wikipedia

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   Usage of prepaid cellphone service was common in most parts of the world. In 2012 around 70% of customers in Western Europe and China use prepaid phones with the figure rising to over 90% for customers in India and Africa. [17] 36% of cellphone users in the United States of America were using some form of prepaid service as of 2021. [18]

6. History of prepaid mobile phones - Wikipedia

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   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 .)

7. Prepayment for service - Wikipedia

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   Recent statistics (OECD Communications Outlook 2005) indicate that 40% of the total mobile phone market in the OECD region consists of prepaid accounts. This service was invented by Portuguese provider TMN, while researching for a means to increase penetration of mobile technology by allowing anyone to buy a fully working (usually requiring a quick and simple activation process) mobile phone ...