RadioShack launches prepaid mobile phone service with mobile money transfer capabilities.

Trumpet Mobile and RadioShack Corporation announced the nationwide availability of Trumpet Mobile’s prepaid wireless services at more than 4,300 RadioShack neighborhood locations. Trumpet Mobile is a pioneer in the prepaid mobile money transfer market, which allows subscribers the unique ability to make Western Union money transfers within the U.S. and to Latin America and the Caribbean from their mobile phones.

In addition to international mobile money transfers, Trumpet Mobile’s other differentiated service offerings connect RadioShack customers to innovative, yet affordable technology they can use with either their individual or family plans. This includes features such as access to the first prepaid family plan, a competitive low prepaid domestic rate plan of 10 cents per minute, industry leading international long distance rates as low as three cents per minute, messaging for as low as five cents per message, and a loyalty reward program that gives mobile subscribers bonus minutes for airtime usage.

In 2007 Trumpet Mobile introduced prepaid mobile money transfers in the U.S. in a pilot with global money-transfer company Western Union. With the Trumpet CashCard the service gives mobile subscribers the ability to make secure money transfers. This feature is particularly attractive for RadioShack customers who do not have a bank account and are not affiliated with a traditional financial institution yet have financial obligations.

Key to the Trumpet Mobile customer advantage is Western Union, which provides the backbone through which intra-country and cross-border money transfers can occur.

Trumpet Mobile is now available exclusively at participating neighborhood RadioShack retail locations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico: the Trumpet Mobile service does not include the Trumpet CashCard capabilities, including mobile money transfers.