Prepaid Phone Plans Finally Get Real

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Call it the MetroPCS PCS effect, but Verizon VZ, AT&T T, Sprint S and T-Mobile may have just decided it's time to prepay for small-business cellular service. If your business is like mine, telephony is a singular pain in the you-know-what. Most employees are too mobile these days to bother with desk telephony. So desk phones become fabulously high-tech paper weights. And giving out company paid-for mobile phones doesn't work either, since nobody wants to second mobile on top of the personal phone. And reimbursing for work minutes on personal cell phones sounds noble, but the billing quickly spirals out of control. Did we really talk 1,000 minutes last month? So it is with guarded optimism, that I am noticing a sleeper of a new telephony option for small business: prepaid wireless. To read the rest, head over to TheStreet.com