Dialing into less costly wireless

Want to save on your monthly bills? Then you’re a target customer for two of the newest combatants in the Philadelphia Phone Wars.

After years of house-to-house combat between Verizon Communications and Comcast for landline customers, the region’s air war has been heating up since the arrival in July of MetroPCS and in March of Cricket Wireless.

Cricket and MetroPCS are second-tier wireless companies with their own networks and big aspirations: to lure an ever-larger subscriber base with their flat-fee, unlimited-talk-and-text business models and prices that start as low as $30 or $35 a month.

Read on (via Philly.com)