OK, but you are in a tiny, tiny minority of customers that care about that distinction.

I am betting you are a fairly unique prepaid customer.

There's hundreds of us! I pay $15/month (+tax) for my service which has more than enough for my use most of the time. I don't get all the cross-promotional stuff, and I don't get a phone subsidy, but I think the lowest advertised price for all that stuff us $40/month. Saving $300/year gives me plenty of phone allowance, and I can buy my own tacos or whatever.

I don't have to pay for 'activation' when I move the sim from my phone into a new phone either, even though I hear about that happening still.

I don't have to try to get all my family lines on the same carrier either, so if the three of us are in a car stuck on the side of the road, we have a better chance of one of our phones working to get assistance.

But you can do the exact same thing with a postpaid plan.