Actually that is not the case. More and more you are seeing Pre-Paid coming
into it's own. Pay As You Go is the largest method of payment in the rest of
the world and the American cellular/PCS companies are starting to take note.

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John S.
e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net

Just the opposite.  The wireless business has matured to the point
that pretty much any elligible person who wants a contract cellphone
HAS a cellphone.  The major carriers are just trading churn customers
now.  The only real growth in the industry comes from additional
features (text and picture messaging, PTT, wireless internet, etc.)
and prepaid.

The carriers are experimenting with various prepaid options to see
what works- cheap minutes, long expiry dates, with data, without data,
etc, in attempts to expand the prepaid market as much as possible
without gutting their bread-and-butter contract business.

That's probably what makes the prepaid business seem like it's being
ignored- the carrier's fears that really attractive pre-paid plans
might actually cause them to "steal" business from themselves- hence
AT&T's decision to add taxes, etc. to GoPhone.  Perhaps consumers in
high-tax markets like NY may have discovered GoPhone was actually more
attractive than standard AT&T service!