New Verizon Wireless Prepay Plans

Verizon Wireless today announced new INpulse prepay plans essentially customized for various lighter use or episodic use modes.The new plans, INpulse Core, INpulse Plus and INpulse Power, charge customers a daily access fee only on the days of use and include unlimited calling to Verizon Wireless customers nationwide.

INpulse Core offers daily access at 99 cents and calls at 10 cents a minute. Text messages are charged at 10 cents for each message. INpulse Plus costs $1.99 a day, on the days a user wants to talk or text, with unlimited night minutes and voice calling at five cents a minute and five-cent text messages.

INpulse Power costs $2.99, with unlimited night minutes of use and calls at two cents a minute. Text messages cost two cents each.

Customers who set up an INpulse account with an initial payment of $15 may purchase any Verizon Wireless phone (excluding smartphones, PDAs) at the same price as Verizon Wireless customers who sign a one-year customer agreement.

In addition, INpulse Core, INpulse Plus and INpulse Power customers who decide later to move to monthly postpay customer agreements may now keep their INpulse prepay phone numbers when they switch plans. INpulse account balances will be used as a credit toward the new postpay monthly customer agreement.

Verizon Wireless offers INpulse in pre-packaged plans built around three handsets, including $10 of airtime at activation. Those phones are the Samsung SCH-u340, the
Samsung SCH-a870 and the Motorola RAZR V3m.

iPhone Tops at&t Phone Sales

The iPhone has become at&t's top selling device, commanding some 13 percent of overall sales, according to Strategy Analytics. At least 1.325 million units have been sold in the U.S. market since the iPhone was launched. It also is conceivable that the iPhone will be the top selling U.S. dvice over the next couple of quarters.

Currently, the top selling U.S. handset is Motorola's RAZR V3. Generally, the top 10 handset models account for approximately 25 percent of total handset sales in a typical quarter.

"The typical iPhone buyer is college educated with a six-figure household income," Strategy Analytics says.

The largest percentage of iPhone buyers is between 20-30 years old, but nearly 25 percent are between 50 to 60 years old. Which makes sense, given the demographics of buyers, which are high end.