AT&T and Verizon Prices what will you be paying

Much ado is being made about Sprint Nextel's move to offer Apple iPhones with unlimited data plans. Although the iPhone 4S has not yet hit the market, Sprint is whetting the appetites of its customer base that may want a less-expensive model with the promise of a $99 iPhone 4 running iOS 5 and an all-you-can-eat data package.

iPhone 4S will be available from Sprint starting at $199.99 for the 16GB model, $299.99 for the 32GB model and $399.99 for the 64GB model, beginning Oct. 14. iPhone 4 will cost just $99.99 for the 8GB model and is available now.

In what could be the first phase of a transformation in the way its smartphone users pay for Internet use, the nation's biggest carrier, Verizon Wireless, has introduced prepaid data plans. The no-contract plans, which go into effect Sept. 28, offer unlimited 3G access on select handsets for $30 per month, or $10 per month for 25 megabytes, with a 20-cent charge for each additional megabyte.

Verizon customers can sign up for the plans immediately at Verizon stores or online.

When it comes to prepaid plans two big names such as AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless always rival each other, this is good and healthy competition that always keeps the pricing down. So who will win the fight for glory?

Sprint Nextel Corp. is revamping Virgin Mobile, the prepaid wireless service it bought last year, and making it focus on inexpensive plans for young people who would rather text or send Facebook messages than talk.

The announcement, set for Thursday, clarifies Sprint's strategy in the increasingly important prepaid market. With cheaper prices and increasing choices of phones and services, prepaid plans have lured more consumers in the last year.

Apparently the social networking wiz phones the Microsoft KIN One and KIN Two may not be selling as well as first expected, and the word is sources have indicated that Verizon is gearing up to slash the prices on both smartphones.According to an article over on Electronista by way of a BGR report, although only a month out of the gate, Verizon is considering dropping the price of the Microsoft KIN Two down from $100 to $50 on contract while the Microsoft KIN One would drop from $50 to free.

It has been recently reported that Verizon are holding a press conference with Skype on Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress. Although Verizon haven’t commented publicly yet on the subject.
But some unnamed sources have claimed that the company are planning to include Skype’s Internet calling software directly into some of their phones. It would be great if this happens as it would mean that customers could make Skype calls over Verizon’s 3G data network.

Sprint may have plenty of changes in store for its upcoming " strategy update ," but it looks like one crucial policy will remain in place -- unlimited data plans. Speaking to reporters at Mobilize in San Francisco yesterday, company CTO Stephen Bye confirmed that even though competitors like Verizon and AT&T are phasing out their unlimited plans, Sprint remains committed to providing its customers with infinite data.

In what could be a bid to stem prepaid customer losses along with addressing mounting competition within the mobile arena, the largest carrier in the United States, Verizon Wireless has chopped their prepaid voice plan price by half.According to an article over on Fierce Wireless by Mike Dano, the Big Red’s website now shows that the charge for their daily prepaid wireless service is at $1.99 a day, whereas previously the same daily prepaid service was charged at $3.99 a day.