Nothing concrete, but soon we will find out if (finally) a GSM provider will enter the Unlimited prepaid price wars. I’m talking about Airvoice Wireless. Rumor on the Internets has it that the company is coming out with an Unlimited plan on GSM. Airvoice is an MVNO of Verizon and AT&T. This could present itself as a game changer since all unlimited offerings have come from the CDMA side of things: Page Plus, Virgin Mobile, PlatinumTel, and Boost from the Sprint side (Boost is iDen of course, but they’re a Sprint brand), and Page Plus and Tracfone’s StraightTalk from the Verizon side.
A Twitter user by the name “Airvoice GSM” has been posting updated referencing some Unlimited GSM offering coming from Airvoice (http://twitter.com/AirvoiceGSM). Said user has yet to be confirmed as an official representative of Airvoice.
I’m loving watching this war of the carriers being waged by proxy. The consumer, of course, stands to realize huge savings.
Though not many might care to remember, but once upon a blog, DrPrepaid had a decent following of a few thousand. With detailed breakdown of prepaid wireless plans, and breaking news, even some scoops on plan and handset releases. This being a one-person operation, life got in the way and I ended up abandoning the site to concentrate on my wireless business. But, 2009 has been magnetic in what it brought us: a plethora of offerings on the prepaid side of the industry that I always figured was a few years away. Provider after the next, MNO and MVNO alike, have been slashing prices and coming up with very exciting and cheap all-you-can-eat plans. What’s a boy to do? Well, bring back the web log, of course. So here it is, a shell of a site with a lot of work yet to be done to bring it back to where and what it was: an almost comprehensive and extremely useful resource to those wanting to take that leap from contract to prepaid wireless.
Prepaid cell phone service is here, and it’s here to stay. DrPrepaid will breakdown the plans, the carriers, the offerings, like in the old days. We’ll report on industry news and bring you the latest and greatest as it happens. Stay tuned!
