As we see, nowadays there are many people who use prepaid mobile phones according to their budgets. The growing payment mechanism is identical with mobile phones for long distance calling and downloadable entertainment, as Wireless Broadband prepaid is creating excitement for the new prepaid customer.
Mobile networks have seen an increase in technical capabilities which allows mobile network providers to offer high speed wireless broadband services using the very same network that carries traditional mobile voice calls. These networks have the ability to carry speed of up to 7 Mbps per second.
Mobile networks have been offering wireless broadband services to their post-paid subscriber base to promote the service to the main stream audience which dries up; while these providers will be launching prepaid wireless services.
As O’ Sullivan commented, “Over the last five years we have observed that mobile voice services have experienced significant growth, the same will hold true for Internet broadband services by means of prepaid and mobile network infrastructure”.
As compared to prepaid, post-paid is better as the user gets to see the billing history and have a basic credit where the users don’t have to continuously check how fast their balance is ticking away.
While the prepaid service is mainly to suit the budget for the user which includes, a student, an immigrant, low income earner or a part time user of a particular service.
In African and Asian countries there are more prepaid users than post-paid ones, as shown by the statistics from GSM World Forum. Thus the introduction of accessing internet services into these growth markets is significant and very exciting indeed.
Prepaid wireless broadband is enabled through plug-and-play devices such as USB modems or routers which rely on a Mobile SIM card or a similar manner to a mobile phone.
According to O’Sullivan, Internet portals will form the key storefronts for recharge since customers will need to recharge wireless bandwidth online on an ongoing basis.