MetroPCS, which provides flat-rate plans with no contractual obligations, will join the wireless competition against behemoths Verizon and AT&T, as well as other prepaid providers. Budget-minded New Yorkers will have a new cell phone provider to choose from early next year, when MetroPCS Communications Inc. launches its service in the city. MetroPCS offers consumers a flat-rate cell phone plan for unlimited minutes, with no contract. The Dallas-based company has been aggressively building out its national presence, launching in Philadelphia earlier this month and before that in Las Vegas and Jacksonville, Fla. MetroPCS confirmed that it will be entering the New York market in early 2009, but declined to elaborate on its plans. However, two years ago, the firm won a Federal Communications Commission auction for wireless...
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