Verizon Wireless is a mobile phone service that offers annual contracts, month-to-month service and prepaid service. The latter of these options gives users the freedom to pay for minutes only when ...

The utility of prepaid cards is growing as marketers develop features that can strengthen their customer relationships. Although not a new trend, coupling ancillary features such as direct deposit, ...

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. is offering a service that enables merchants to sell prepaid telephone minutes without using traditional plastic calling cards. About 60% of the world's 1.1 billion ...

My parents want to get a phone to take with them on vacations, as a just-in-case sort of thing. They won't be using it very regularly otherwise, and would like to get something whose minutes don't ...

My parents want to be able to take a cell phone on trips once in a while. They have absolutely no need for a cell phone pretty much the whole rest of the time. I've been looking around for them for a ...

Venmo does accept some prepaid cards, as long as they're from American Express, Discover, MasterCard, or Visa. Once you've linked the prepaid card to Venmo, you can send money to friends from it.

In the county of Kenya there exists an economic model using prepaid airtime minutes as a de facto currency, and this type of market is well on its way to reality in other small, impoverished countries ...

Parents have enough trouble controlling their teens and preteens without the added pressure of worrying about endless cellphone use. This is the time of the year when the issue comes to a head because ...