Lightyear Wireless, Lightyear Network Solutions, Lightyear Alliance, and MyWirelessRep. You’ve heard all those mentioned in this blog and probably elsewhere on the net. What is the difference between them? Are they separate entities or under the same? What are their relationships? I will attempt to clear that up in this blog post
Lightyear Network Solutions (LNS) is the parent company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky and founded in 1993. Lightyear Wireless is the direct selling division of LNS. MyWirelessRep refers to the web presence of each individual Lightyear Wireless rep. Lightyear Alliance is a defunct term - I believe it was replaced by MyWirelessRep (it was before I joined). You will still see it used in some outdated directories. You probably won’t see me using it on this site very much - but the other three I will use frequently.
And LNS has other products besides wireless (although that’s the most attractive and most profitable product). They sell VOIP, home security systems, DISH network and even broadband. I hope that clears up any name issues. But the bottom line is that all large companies have many entities to deal with.
A lot of people are living in fear of the economy right now. In fact, I would go so far to say that a lot of people are literally sidelined by it. They are ‘frozen in time’; waiting for something to happen. Waiting for the stimulus to take effect or waiting for that job offer to come in for that ‘perfect job’. Or even worse, waiting to win the lotto.
According to the Huffington Post earlier this year, lotto sales are way up with the recession. People actually look to lotto to save their financial turmoil.
I think waiting is a game. In fact, ‘the waiting game’ is a term and it has the word game in it for a reason. It may or may not work. In the case of lotto, it probably won’t work due to the extreme odds. Now don’t get me wrong, I enjoy playing lotto every so often and buy a ticket for fun. And no I haven’t won but I see it as fun. I don’t expect it to free me from working at my business.
People who really want to find a way to solve their financial issues will be smart to take some action. What action that is depends on you - but a lot of people are looking to home based businesses as a way to earn extra income or even build a full time income. They are asking “hey if he can do it, why can’t I?”.
What can’t you indeed?
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Most people don’t get up the morning and say “mmm… I think I’ll start a mobile phone business today”. That’s because most people don’t think that can be done without a lot of capital, ongoing expense, and work. Well, one out of 3. It will take work - but any business you want to start you must expect to put some effort into it. But with Lightyear Wireless, there is no huge capital cash outlay - it only costs $49.99 to get started! That price may be going back up to $99.99 after May ends. As for ongoing expenses, it’s the same: $49.99.
No inventory to stock, no storefront and you don’t have to worry about hiring employees or shipping products. Just focus on building the business! How do you build a cell phone business after you start one? Well if you join my team, you will get exclusive step by step marketing instructions that cover everything from scripts to Google Adwords. What are you waiting for?
It’s an easy choice when looking at Cell phone and Notebook computers. One fits in your pocket, the other does not (and ends up getting left at home much of the time). Assuming your cell phone has a data plan, you can get access to the web on your phone. But unless you use one of the smart-phones like the Blackberry World or the LG Rumor, web surfing is difficult at best. Without the full QWERTY keyboards these smart phones provide, texting and typing in URLs or search terms will be cumbersome - very cumbersome!
That’s where netbooks are supposed to come in. They’re supposed to be ultra small computers designed for maximum portability and wireless access and not designed for desktop type applications. In theory, they’re a cross between the highest end smart phone and a notebook computer. However, even the current generation of so called netbooks (aslo called mini notebooks) are still too big to fit in the pocket - even a large pocket. See the Dell Inspiron Mini’s for example.
Still too big to carry with you everywhere! Netbooks offer interesting possilibilies but they will need to get smaller before they can take over that ‘gray area’ between smart phones and full computers.
Yesterday I posted about the demise of wired phone service. No where is this more apparent than in my own neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. I live right in the city in a neighborhood called Greenwood. When I moved here years ago, the local phone company (Qwest) had not yet upgraded their cabling infrastructure to allow for DSL. Now here in 2009 six years later, they still have not! I just checked a minute ago. This was the message:
Our network is continually being expanded, and we don’t want you to miss the opportunity to get a broadband Internet connection that can save you time, help you enjoy online activities, open up the option to work at home, and more! Please fill out the form below, and we will let you know when Qwest Broadband becomes available.
Yeah sure, and I won’t hold my breath. It looks a lot like what they told me years ago. In today’s economy, it’s not a good bet that companies like Qwest will be doing any kind of expansion. I recently read about a heap of layoffs at Qwest and upgrading their infrastructure is probably way on the back burner now.
And this is not some out of the way suburb; this is right in the city and should have been upgraded years ago. Fortunately for me, Comcast (the cable company in my area) is more than happy to provide broadband service. If you are planning a move and want DSL broadband, make sure your new neighborhood supports it. Meanwhile, the wireless industry flourishes!
Old school wired phone service (known at POTS lines) is certainly destined for the technology graveyard. And for those people who still use them, you are likely to find your prices continuing to rise on this. As it moves closer to full legacy status, fewer resources will be put into it and naturally prices will go up. This would go on until such time as it becomes no longer available.
There are two reasons why the phone company wired service market is deteriorating: Wireless and VOIP. Most people are choosing the flexibility of wireless service over wired service. Still others who don’t mind tying their phone service to their computer can choose a VOIP service like Lightyear’s X-STREAM VoIP. VOIP services like X-STREAM cost at least half of what the local phone company will charge for its standard wired residential service. For people who still prefer a wire, this can be a great way to save money on phone service.
But most people will want a wireless solution like the ones Lightyear Wireless provides. Either way, the future does not look bright for phone company POTS.
Where else do you know of where you can start a home based business for less than $50? Lightyear Wireless has once again lowered the price to sign up. They are letting you sign up for $49.99 during the month of May. I don’t know whether this offer will last into June, so if you are considering Lightyear Wireless, best to act soon. $49.99 is just your monthly cost so essentially there is no start up fee this month.
The media focuses a lot on smart phone cell phones like the iPhone and Blackberry. Those are everyone’s favorite toys that do everything a phone can possibly do. These a very nice, don’t get me wrong, but what is a cell phone for anyway?
These days with economics being what they are, people have less disposable income. And many people just want to get back to basics. That’s when a plain old cell phone will do just fine. And fortunately, Lightyear Wireless has plenty of basic phones to choose from; many of them can be had for free. Like the Kyocera SoHo for example. It doesn’t have to be fancy to do what most people use a phone for: to communicate verbally. And you don’t need a smart phone to do that. Just a phone.
One of the best ways to pass germs around or get germs (aka swine flu) from others is use shared phones. Viruses can live on surfaces like a phone mouthpiece and can easily be transmitted that way. Today I was doing some corporate consulting and was at a branch office. I received a page to call someone and I called them back on my Lightyear Wireless versus their corporate phone system.
When asked why I used my cell phone rather than use their (expensive) business VOIP based system, I just said I needed to walk around. That was only 1/2 true; the other half of the truth was germs. The phones at the place I was working were publicly used phones. By ‘publicly used’ I mean used by many employees. And I didn’t have my bottle of isopropyl alcohol with me!
I have no idea whether anyone at the place cleans the phones or not and I figured I may as well not take a chance. I know where my phone has been and I know whose mouth has been on it!
Here is a thought provoking article about the way people see smart phones. When you shop for a computer, you tend to look at the best value and at the ones that will do the things you need fairly well. Like its ability to be a general purpose device. In the past, people have tried to compare smart phones to computers. But according to this finding, smart phones (like the Blackberry and the enV) are more like appliances. People buy them according to the job they do the best. The reason I chose the enV is the flip open full QWERTY keyboard. The reason I chose this is because I find text messaging to be painful on the standard phone keyboard and I wanted something slimmer than I could get in a Blackberry. People like Blackberrys for specific reasons and people like iPhone for specific reasons. Read about them at the article below.
Smartphones as appliances
MyWireLessRep, lightyear wireless | Ross | 
May 30, 2009 5:15 pm | 
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