News tagged with prepaid
Microsoft adds app access to non-smart phones
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving people with regular cell phones access to the same kinds of programs that smart phone owners have embraced.
Sprint Nextel to buy Virgin Mobile USA
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is intensifying its focus on the fast-growing market for prepaid cell phone service with a $483 million deal to buy Virgin Mobile USA Inc.
Tracfone tests cheap unlimited plan on Verizon
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Tracfone Wireless, the country's largest provider of "prepaid" cell phones, is quietly testing a new service that appears to be a response to the fierce price competition in the prepaid market.
Greeks to register prepaid cell phones
Jun 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Greece's prepaid mobile phone users will now have to register their identities in a bid to tackle illegal immigration and other crime, the communications minister said Tuesday.
Despite prepaid lift, Sprint Nextel loss widens
May 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Despite a widening net loss, Sprint Nextel Corp. finally got some good news in its long recovery Monday, as a big surge in "prepaid" customers offset another nightmarish drop in valuable subscribers ...
Motorola loss widens; analysts see worrisome signs
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Motorola Inc. defeated low expectations Thursday, posting a smaller first-quarter loss than Wall Street had expected and regaining its position as the world's fourth-largest maker of cell phones.
Cut-rate prepaid plans shake up wireless industry
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As wireless carriers start reporting first-quarter results this week, investors will be looking at the effects of some spectacular price cuts for prepaid cell phone service.
Virgin Mobile joins prepaid price war
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is set to announce Thursday that it is slashing the price of its unlimited calling plan to $50 from $80 per month, a result of fierce competition and price-cutting among second-tier cellular ...
