Dug this Boy Genius Report article up from May 6th:
"The amount of voice minutes used by young adults continues to plummet as email, IM and SMS grows at a rate of 150% during the years 2007 to 2009. Factor in 1800% growth in mobile data in this segment and it’s pretty obvious Virgin is one of the few companies that actually caters to the demands of its customers."
I wish the TC post was less, "this random circumstance happened to me," and more about what you mention above: prepaid is a good fit for MANY people. (And not to mention the growing data > voice divide that is driving some of us to prepaid.)
"The amount of voice minutes used by young adults continues to plummet as email, IM and SMS grows at a rate of 150% during the years 2007 to 2009. Factor in 1800% growth in mobile data in this segment and it’s pretty obvious Virgin is one of the few companies that actually caters to the demands of its customers."
http://bit.ly/9kWCcm