Amp'd skips contract on prepaid service.(News)

RCR Wireless News, June, 2006

Byline: KELLY HILL Amp'd Mobile Inc. has rounded out its service offering with a prepaid play that began selling last week, touting its new pay-as-you-go service as "the first and only pay-as-you-go 3G wireless phone service.'' Amp'd Mobile's prepaid offering charge customers 10 cents per minute for voice calling, $1 per day for unlimited push-to-talk service, plus access to a variety of the content services that are at the heart of the mobile virtual network operator's service.

The $1 per-day price for unlimited PTT sets it up for direct competition with Boost Mobile L.L.C., Sprint Nextel Corp.'s lifestyle-focused MVNO that runs on the carrier's iDEN network. Boost has the initial upper hand in that its installed customer base numbers in the...