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- 09-24-2007, 03:12 PM #1Todd AllcockGuest
At 24 Sep 2007 06:18:02 -0400 Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> The whole thing smacks of Fiddy Cent selling me a phone on the
> street corner.
Except 50 cent is much better financed than Page Plus!
PagePlus is probaby the longest lasting of the "smally fry" MVNOs,
and offers
a much better deal than most. If the shoestring operation scares
you, don't buy it! It's a risk/rewards thing- what's at risk? A
$20 eBay phone and $2.50/month airtime? The reward is a cheap
prepaid system with outstanding coverage. For (almost) the same
coverage, Verizon InPulse is less risk at $15/month, and certainly a
contract plan is virtually risk free at $40+/month.
PagePlus is intended to be sold through small independent brick and
mortar cellular dealers, and unlike some MVNOs like Beyond Wireless
who undercut their dealers' MSRP on their website, PP seems to want
to let their dealers make the sales and deal with the "headaches"
(activations, ESN changes, etc.) rather than try to be a web-based
business. If I were still a cellular dealer, I'd be selling them.
(Why represent a company who actively "steals" your business?)
--
"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003
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- 09-24-2007, 03:26 PM #2SMSGuest
Re: PagePlus, the Prepaid Service Few People Know About even thoughthey are usually the cheapest option with the best coverage
Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 24 Sep 2007 06:18:02 -0400 Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>
>> The whole thing smacks of Fiddy Cent selling me a phone on the
>> street corner.
>
> Except 50 cent is much better financed than Page Plus!
>
> PagePlus is probaby the longest lasting of the "smally fry" MVNOs,
> and offers a much better deal than most.
It's rather telling, that many "big fry" MVNO's have come and gone
during the time PagePlus has been around. Their low-overhead business
model seems to be working for them.
They know they can't compete head-on with the carrier's own prepaid
services, which are usually terrible deals but heavily advertised and
promoted. Nor can they compete with the large MVNO's like Virgin,
TracFone, and Net10, which sell phones through big box stores at loss
leader prices and hope to make up the loss through their extraordinarily
poor deals on airtime or high minimum monthly charges.
They seem to be content to sell to people that are looking for low
monthly minimums, low per minute chargers, and superior coverage, and
that don't mind getting a phone on their own. If they became too
successful then Verizon might cut them off.
When I mentioned PagePlus yesterday at the meeting I was at, someone was
asking "is this a better deal than Verizon's family plan? Verizon gives
you a free phone on the family plan." There are still a lot of people
that become obsessed with getting a "free" handset, and lose sight of
the big picture.
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