Prepaid Cell Phone Popularity

Cell Phones have become so common in our society today that just about everyone has one. You see people on cell phones everywhere you go. The biggest thing that people don't like about traditional cell phone plans, is that you have to commit yourself to a contract (usually about 2 years). If you want to change phones before your contract is up, you have to sign a new contract or if you break the contract they'll charge you a huge penalty!

This is why many people are now opting to choose a Prepaid cell phone instead. Recent studies show that about 11 percent of cell phone users are now going with the Prepaid phones and this number is growing more and more everyday.

Some of the reasons many people are choosing the prepaid cell phone are:
No credit check
No deposit
No contract
Can save you money
Change provider whenever you want
You can change phones whenever you want
Don't have to worry about getting a huge cell phone bill because you went over your minutes! Since you pay for everything up front there are no surprises to upset your budget.

While most of big name carriers offer some sort of family plan rate, it can still get expensive especially if you go over the allotted minutes and this is easy for teenagers to do, as they always tend to be on the phone. This is why many parents are now choosing to get a prepaid cell phone for the kids. This way they cannot run a big cell phone bill that the parents are left to pay. 

When prepaid cell phones first hit the market the minutes were pretty expensive and in most cases the only people who used them were people who couldn't qualify for a traditional cell phone. With the increasing popularity or prepaid cell phones just about every big name cell phone carrier has jumped on the bandwagon, this means more competition and has led to reduced prices.

Having more competition in the market gives you more phones to choose from as well as different prepaid cell phone plans.  As more and more wireless providers offer this service we'll most likely see the prices drop even more. This is good news for consumers.

Prepaid phones are easy to find and are available in electronic stores as well as many other stores such as Wal-mart, Target and many others.