Recently in prepaid cellular service Category

RIM is planning on selling BlackBerry On Demand, prepay and BlackBerry in a Box.  RIM has launched a prepay service in Indonesia and is working on finding carriers to offer prepay services.  Sales presentations to carriers were leaked to Boy Genius.  Prepay is very popular in foreign countries and 72% of the world market. They will target Gen Y and Gen X

It's being geared for:

• limited budget kids or small biz
• people carriers won't give an account to
  
• someone who doesn't want to committed to a long term contract
• people who don't want share personal information for security and tax reasons
• ex-pats, entrepreneurs, independent workers
  

It's not clear when BlackBerry prepay will be available in the US.  The sales presentation suggests rates as low as a dollar a day which seem very appealing to people who don't need data access every day.  The BlackBerry in the Box service would include a year of service and the BlackBerry.  The option is a non-subsidized BlackBerrry with ways to buy by the day, month or other period of time.

Crisp Wireless announced results from its Second Quarter '08 Crisp Wireless Index (CWI). Among the key findings in the Index, mobile web usage continues to grow significantly with a 29.4% increase from 1Q08 to 2Q08. The index is a quarterly barometer of consumer activity online via mobile devices based on usage across sites of select publishers in the Crisp Wireless Publisher Network from April 1, 2008 through June 30, 2008.

According to the 2Q08 CWI, the following trends have emerged:

• Local news is viewed mostly in the morning, while national news is viewed continuously throughout day.
  
• Sports fans check scores and highlights during their favorite games, with highest traffic on evenings and weekends.
  
• Women visit the mobile web late at night and early in the week mirroring their online habits; and young girls are browsing late night, especially on the weekend. -
• Entertainment and online services are accessed most in the evenings, primarily on the weekends as visitors are making their weekend plans.

TracFone Wireless, the Tennessee Department of Safety, local nonprofits and elected-officials will launch SafeLink Wireless to aid 812,807 low-income households in Tennessee.

The SafeLink Wireless service will provide Tennessee's eligible low-income households a free cell phone, unlimited mobile access to emergency services (911), and over an hour of air time each month for up to one year. (Participants may renew service and will be required to re-submit eligibility documentation upon their year completion. More information will be provided during media interviews.) The cell phone offers in-demand features: free voicemail account, text, call waiting, international calling to over 60 destinations and caller ID.

In September TraFone started offering a similar service for Florida residents.

MetroPCS Communications, Inc., provider of unlimited wireless communications service, today announced the launch of its flat rate unlimited wireless service in Los Angeles. MetroPCS will provide the people of Los Angeles with unlimited local and long-distance service.

With plans starting as low as $30 a month, MetroPCS offers the lowest unlimited wireless calling choices now available in the market. Already available in Northern California, including the San Francisco and Sacramento markets, the Los Angeles service launch means expanded wireless coverage and an added value for customers throughout California.