i also think that the very fact that there are per minute contract plans in other places that can be compared side by side with the prepaid that pre paid is so much more popular in places like europe. they do not have the mis perception that is so common in the USA that prepaid will cost them a fortune.

i can not tell you how many times i have been told by an american that they barely use there phone and they are looking for something less than the usual $39.99+taxes and fees. i mention pre paid; they react ‘i use my phone than that - it will cost me a fortune’ than we look at the phone bill and they realise they would pay less on prepaid. but you know what they a week later i see them with a new post paid phone. they had let the salesman at the store talk them into the ‘free’ phone with all the features they are never going to use.

i do think the popularity of brand name stores with corporate trained sales persons is also a big factor in how things have worked out over here. when you go to any city in Europe you find lots of mom and pop cell phone shops; these are the ones that tend to deal in prepaid. you find those types of shops here as well but only in the more poverty stricken neighborhoods; and when you do they are selling prepaid or local unlimited service plans to customers who know what to demand for.

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IT’S TIME TO EXAMINE OUR BILLS AND SWITCH TO PREPAID OR IF WE DO NOT TRAVEL AND LIVE IN A CITY WITH AN UNLIMITED LOCAL OPERATOR(METRO PCS OR CRICKET FOR $30/MONTH) TO MAKE THE SWITCH AND NEVER LOOK BACK. ENOUGH OF US DO IT AT&T VERIZON WILL START TO WAKE UP.

When you're buying mobile phone service, there is generally two ways to go: (pre) pay for precisely what you (are going to) use, or buy a bundle of minutes per month, possibly on a contract basis-typically 2 years in the……