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Article: Prepaid Wireless-Data Plans Now Have More to Offer
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 13, 2009
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Prepaid wireless-phone service looks better than it used to, and
that's not just because of the lousy economy.
Once something marketed to customers at the margin of the
business -- the young, the credit risks, the infrequent callers -
- these options have begun adopting some attributes of subscription
services. Instead of paying for an allotment of minutes to use up
over time, many prepaid firms also let you pay a fixed sum each
month, often including texting and Web access. And yet you can still
cancel the deal at will.
The most recent shift in prepaid wireless, however, has nothing
to do with voice calls. Two firms now sell no-contract, wireless-
data connections for laptop or ...