Many don't realize, but its small news like this that drives up the price. Speculation is one thing, but this introduces actual buying demand that makes the price rise.
It definitely does add demand. It's so annoying that these companies do this, I mean
what do they think their overpriced service is actually used for? I can't see people going
to big extremes to get a prepaid to go get groceries etc. Its clearly used for gambling or
other ways to circumvent the system in the most part.