Monday, May 12, 2008

Meijer Supercenter Partners with Fusion on Prepaid Mobile Offering

Meijer, who operates 181 supercenter stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, has announced that is has partnered with Fusion Mobile, an Austin Texas company to provide a private label MVNO product to be sold exclusisevy in all of their stores.

The product is called Meijer Mobile and has it's backbone provided by Sprint PCS. The phones will be completly prepaid and will include the usual no credit checks and no contracts but will also include a few attractive freebies like unlimited nights and weekend minutes, domestic long distance, cheap text messaging, voicemail, caller ID, and three-way calling. Some of the other benefits will include web access for only $0.20 a day, $0.10 text messages and cheap calls to Mexico (only $0.025 per minute).

Currently they are offering hardware from LG and Samsung which includes the LG 125 for $69.99, the LG 150 for $99.99 and the Samsung M300 for $129.99.

The phones are available now for purchase in stores or online.

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