Re: Prepaid Cellphones Are Cheaper. Why Aren’t They Popular?

My bloviated meandering follows what Peter Holsberg graced us with on 
8/7/2012 9:06 AM:
> Sailfish has written on 8/6/2012 11:05 PM:
>> My bloviated meandering follows what Peter Holsberg graced us with on 
>> 8/6/2012 4:59 PM:
>>> Sailfish has written on 8/4/2012 6:42 PM:
>>>> My bloviated meandering follows what Peter Holsberg graced us with on 
>>>> 8/4/2012 6:19 AM:
>>>>> What carrier do you use? With what phone? In the US?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sailfish has written on 8/3/2012 3:18 PM:
>>>>>> REF: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/prepaid-phone-plans/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [excerpt quote="
>>>>>> Prepaid plans don’t seem as cool now, but because phones on prepaid 
>>>>>> plans are generally getting better, and because people are always 
>>>>>> looking for ways to cut costs in a bad economy, Ovum says it expects 
>>>>>> American prepaid customers to increase to 29 percent of overall wireless 
>>>>>> subscribers by the year 2016.
>>>>>> " /]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cool/schmool, keeping my cold, hard cash is way better. That way I can 
>>>>>> waste it on "tangible" throw-away stuff.
>>>>>>
>>>> I'm on a pre-paid plan, TracFone (see, 
>>>> https://www.tracfone.com/direct/Purchase?payGo=true&app=TRACFONE&lang=en 
>>>> .) They aren't a carrier but a reseller. As I recall, they have resell 
>>>> agreements with most of the major carriers (ATT, Verizon, Sprint, &c) so 
>>>> I'm pretty much guaranteed to get coverage anywhere. The minutes cost 
>>>> more than with a monthly plan but they are roll-over minutes (so far I