prepaid

Here we go again. Just last month, we told you how the Kardashian-branded prepaid debit card -- the one with a nearly $100 fee for a year's worth of use -- was yanked after an indignant attorney general threatened to open an investigation. Although this card is gone, the marketplace today resembles...

Prepaid cards for kids hawked by a reality-show personality who became famous because of a sex tape: What could be wrong with that? Kim Kardashian has teamed with a financial services company to offer the Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard, which is being peddled to kids as young as 13 and their...

Even though Walmart already sells phones and service from every major cell phone company and has a collection of brands like Straight Talk, which runs on Verizon, and Common Cents, which runs on Sprint; the company didn't have a house brand. That changed this week with the introduction of Walmart...

While some companies have put an end to unlimited mobile data connections on your laptop or other mobile device, Virgin Mobile USA, a prepaid provider, is simplifying its plans and offering unlimited prepaid mobile broadband for $40 a month -- $20 cheaper than what it would cost with a contract on...

Great news for the roughly 35 million prepaid or pay-as-you-go cell phone users who are looking for cheap pay-as-you-go calling. Sprint and Walmart announced a new prepaid brand called Common Cents Mobile, which offers calls at 7 cents a minute with the usage rounding down. The new value oriented...

Banks? insatiable appetite for fee income may be swaying many consumers to use prepaid debit cards to avoid high, unfair fees, to gain control of debt and to gain access to banking services more cheaply.

Fans of prepaid cellphones will love Virgin Mobile's Broadband2Go, a USB device that provides pay-as-you go wireless Internet service without an annual contract.What they may not love so much is the price, or at least the initial $150 to buy it. On the plus side, Virgin Mobile's prices to buy...

As the recession deepens, more Americans are cutting back on their cell phone spending and many more are planning to if the economic downturn continues as expected for another six months, according to a survey for the New Millenium Research Council. As I reported in a WalletPop story in February,...