The unemployment rate in the US is 8.9% which is the highest it has been since 1983.  In this environment many consumers are looking for affordable pre-paid cell phone packages such as those offered by MetroPCS and Leap Wireless. Sprint and Virgin Mobile are also catching on to this trend.

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