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Sprint CEO: Sees Pickup In Prepaid Momentum In Second Half
WSJ: NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) Chief Executive Dan Hesse said he expects prepaid momentum to pick up in the second half of the year.

The Overland Park, Kan., wireless provider will unveil and launch a multibrand prepaid strategy in the next few weeks, Hesse told analysts during a quarterly conference call on Wednesday.

Sprint has increasingly relied on prepaid for growth as contract customers continued to leave the company.

Hesse acknowledged that there remains a gap between Sprint and its two biggest rivals, AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Wireless. Article Here

 
Vodafone launches 3030 promotion
Vodafone Ghana has launched a call package for its mobile prepaid customers, dubbed: Vodafone 3030 Promotion.

The package allows Vodafone Mobile prepaid customers to talk for free up to 30 minutes for only 30Gp each time they call Vodafone mobile or land line.

The special promotion will run for three months beginning from Thursday April 29 and end on Thursday, July.

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On the Call: AT&T CFO on prepaid wireless
AT&T Inc. reported the addition of 512,000 contract-signing wireless customers under contract in the first quarter, a low number compared to the last five years. Across the industry, most of the growth is now coming from customers who prepay for service and don't sign contracts. Those customers pay less than contract-signing -- or so-called "postpaid" -- customers, and AT&T hasn't been aggressive in chasing their business. Instead, it's emphasizing that more of its postpaid customers are signing up for data plans, meaning each one pays more.  Article here
 
Uninor brings data services for its prepaid subscribers

Uninor, the telecom brand operated by India’s Unitech Ltd. and the Norway based Telenor Group, has introduced data services on GPRS for its pre-paid subscribers. These services would be available to the users across the nine states of UP, Uttaranchal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

This new, limited period free trial offer for internet browsing will be available till May 6. Subsequently, data services will be available through a base plan with tariff of 10p per 10kb. Customers will also be able to access the service through two products – myconnect 9 priced at Rs. 9 that’s valid for 3 days and allows free browsing upto 60MB and myconnect 90 priced at Rs. 90 that’s valid for 30 days with 3GB of free browsing.

Delivering more to its users through this data plan, Uninor is also offering its customers free access to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In under both plans.

Customers will not be required to make any special settings for the data plans as Uninor’s Automatic Device Setting Server instantly detects the device make and model as the Uninor SIM is inserted in the handset and automatically sends data settings to the phone. Accept and start surfing.

 
Everybody's Phone Company Announces It is Negotiating a Long Distance Reseller Agreement

HOUSTON, Apr 26, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Everybody's Phone Company, Inc. (Pink Sheets:EVPH), Texas' fastest growing provider of prepaid telephone services, today announced that it is negotiating a reseller agreement with a major long distance service provider to bundle with its prepaid home telephone service.

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Mexico extends the period for prepaid mobile phone registrations

Few days ago, Will wrote about plans of the Mexican government to kill millions of cellphone lines in an anti-crime initiative. Well that ain’t gonna go that easy as we have the country’s regulator, Cofetel, extending the deadline for the prepaid mobile phone user registration. The reason is obvious – operators reacted, in a fear of losing millions of dollars in revenues.

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