A survey by the New Millenium Research Corporation has indicated that Americans are massively considering switching from their expensive mobile phone contracts to prepaid, or pay-as-you-go phones. While in Europe mobile phone companies have generally offered great 1 year phone contracts, in the US the situation is less good for consumers. For some reason there seems to be less competition and the deals with the newest online phones are expensive. Now, however, with the recession kicking in hard, Americans are suddenly looking at their costs and discovering they are paying way to much for their mobile phones. Some smaller companies are offering great low-cost prepaid plans and the survey shows Americans might be switching massively in the coming year. Another worthwile conclusions from the report is that 35% of the respondents state that they primarily use their cell phone for phone communications, which is slightly higher that 32% who say they primarily use their land-line and 32% who say they use both equally.
(source NYTimes blog)
