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Sprint zaps Zact, plans in-house service (RCR Mobile Minute)

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Sprint is shuttering its Zact service in favor of an in-house customizable prepaid plan. Zact was a Sprint MVNO that allowed users to buy voice, text, and data instead of minutes and megabytes.
Like Zact, Sprint’s new plan is powered by ItsOn, a startup backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. Sprint recently signed a multi-year agreement with ItsOn. Zact customers are being told that their service will soon be discontinued, but that they will be able to move to the new Sprint plan.
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Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.