Cellphone Plan Home Business

Late last month, the FCC launched a probe into the current state of the wireless industry. What does this mean for the industry and more important (to me and my Lightyear Team) is what will it mean for Lightyear Wireless?

This will probably good for Lightyear Wireless because the FCC is really looking out for leveling the field here. One of the main things that is driving this inquiry is handset exclusivity agreements. The biggest handset exclusivity agreement of course is the AT&T / Iphone agreement that creates an unfair advantage for AT&T over smaller carriers and even over their peers due to the extreme popularity of the device.

This inquiry will take months and the recommendation or ruling from it might take even longer. But hopefully this will open up the market a bit more so that handset availability will be more open. Lightyear Wireless has a nice selection of handsets but we could always use more. The more options for the customer there are, the better the business will be. For now, Lightyear doesn’t sell the iPhone but sells much more useful phones than the iPhone.

FCC Votes for Wireless Probe

Have you seen those hilarious AT&T commercial about family plans and rollover minutes? It’s a hard core rollover minute mom who chides kids about the value of saving rollover minutes. Rollover minutes in these commercials are represented by some round orange thingie that looks like it might a minute timer or something. Anyway the kid threw out his minutes because “they were old” and mom gives him a lecture about saving money by saving roll over minutes.

Roll over minutes are minutes that were not used in the prior month. Not all carriers offer this. This arrangement is particularly useful when you have a limited number of minutes each month. In situations like these, every minute truly does count and you can hoard them to build up more minutes next month.

Lightyear Wireless has this covered with their prepaid wireless plans. The unlimited plan of course eliminates the need for rollover minutes entirely. Since it’s unlimited, you can have all the minutes you need every month. The rollover is included with the limited plans (the 300 and 200 minute per month). These plans do offer rollover minutes so that any minutes not used in a month will be rolled over to the next month.

So Lightyear Wireless has you covered for rollover. Take that AT&T.

When faced with the idea of starting a home based business some people become afraid.  What are they afraid of?  I think it boils down to two things: losing money or lack of courage.

Since Lightyear Wireless is only $50 to join and only $50 per month to belong to, the ‘cash’ part of the worry goes away. Anyone who doesn’t want to spent that amount to start a business, is not serious about starting a business (in my opinion). So that leaves courage.

A lot of people think it takes something special to start a home based business.  Well it does; it takes dedication and willingness to work hard.  Does it take courage? Yes, it does because it requires for most people, stepping outside their comfort zone and doing things that are unfamiliar to them.  Using your courage is free.  All you have to do is act on your desires and act on your goals for success.

If you avoid both the cash and courage issues, you’ll be stuck on your couch.

Ok no one ‘eats’ wireless, it’s just an expression: All you can Eat. Like a buffet or endless salad bar, Lightyear Wireless prepaid plans now have an unlimited plan for $59.99 per month. That’s pre paid meaning no contract or credit check. You can buy these online just using a credit or debit card.

The all you eat plan really is all you can use because the minutes are unlimited. Both Night/Weekend and Anytime minutes are unlimited so you can use use use all you want. This is unlimited domestic calls, unlimited text, and unlimited data. That’s quite a deal and I signed myself up; yeah I was my first customer.

I am tired of my old plan with only 450 minutes per month. At the time I bought it, 450 minutes seemed ok because I was not a big phone talker. But then I joined this business and of course I’m on the phone a lot more now days talking to people interested in this business. Lightyear also has a lot of conference calls that I listen to. Those combined make my 450 minutes per month pretty lame. And worse I am paying too much for it. So when it ends in November, it will go by the wayside.

I am apparently not alone here. According to Lightyear Wireless, 75% of people who purchased wireless services in the past 3 months have gone the pre paid route. The pre paid wireless offerings have proven to be a big hit. Not just Lightyear’s implementation of it (although that’s an awesome deal), but the industry in general. I suspect the 24 month contract will eventually become a thing of the past.

Lightyear Wireless PrePaid Phones