Just a few months after Tracfone won a suit against a prepaid phone trafficker, T-Mobile has obtained final judgments and injunctions against two companies and an individual. T-Mobile will also receive $6.5 million in damages from the entities, which include Fone Xchange and ASPAC Inc.

It seems that both Cricket Wireless and MetroPCS are benefitting from their new AWS markets. We found out on Tuesday that Leap added many new customers in their expansion markets, far more than in their core markets. MetroPCS announced their second quarter results, and they’ve added plenty of customers in new markets: 164,093, or nearly 50,000 more than Leap added.

We’ve talked a bit about manipulating the system to get a prepaid iPhone 3G, and there seems to be at least a fledgling demand for such a device and service. A recent rumor might satisfy some of you, then. This comes from an anonymous “industry source,” so take it with a grain of kosher salt. This comes from All Headline News, citing the London Daily Mail. They not only repeat the old rumor that Apple could be producing an iPhone Nano in time for the holidays, but it could be targeted to prepaid users.

We’ve seen the list of dead MVNOs. It’s not the stablest of endeavors right now, hence we haven’t seen many, if any, new entrants in the past year or so. It might be a different story, though, when Qualcomm enters the scene. The creators of CDMA technology will be backing a health care MVNO called LifeComm, according to Wireless Week. This will target baby boomers with healthcare software along with mobile phone services.

I’ve been running across some prepaid wireless deals lately, and I thought I’d start passing them along. Today’s comes via a link from xpdig, a social news site which pretty much rips off Digg. Anyway, today we’re looking at the LG CG180 from AT&T Go Phone. It might look like a simple candybar, but it provides some bang for your buck — especially considering that the bucks are only 10, after a mail-in rebate.

It’s about that time we start looking at the quarterly reports for the second period of 2008. Leap Wireless, parent company of Cricket Communications, bats leadoff, and they definitely come through. In gross customer acquisitions, they beat the second quarter of 2007 by 17.2 percent, going from 462,434 adds to 542,005. This was certainly aided by the acquisition of Hargray Wireless, an under the radar move which doesn’t even show up in a Google News search. However, their net adds were even more impressive.

…Just not in the U.S. And why would they? The MVNO market is beyond scary, with a few major players and a couple of little guys remaining. It’s thriving across the Atlantic, though, so the furniture super-chain will be open for business in the UK as of this past weekend. It will be available to Ikea’s loyalty program — or programme, as they say overseas — which covers 1.4 million people. It’ll cost GBP0.09 per minute and GBP0.06 per text message. Considering the conversion rate, this sounds a bit more expensive than prepaid rates in the U.S.

I caught this bit over at Consumerist, and thought it would be of interest to those of you who want to switch to prepaid, but are still stuck with a contract plan. This involves AT&T, so it will only work if you already have them, and are willing to switch to AT&T GoPhone prepaid service. Of course, you might have to be a master negotiator, like the person who wrote into Consumerist.

The day is quickly approaching when Bell and Telus will charge for incoming text messages. There has been plenty of fallout, which is to be expected. At least one class action suit has arisen. Now, Industry Minister Jim Prentice is talking about new regulations, according to The Vancouver Sun.

J.D. Power and his associates don’t have the monopoly on consumer surveys. PC Magazine released their Readers’ Choice survey, so we can take a different look at what everyone thinks of pay as you go cell phone plans. Yes, they have an entire category dedicated to this. So let’s go to the survey: