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Best "Pay As You Go" Cell Phone Service? (Vanity)
k2
| 9.7.2005
| k2
Posted on 09/07/2005 1:12:26 PM PDT by k2blader
Any FReepers use "pay as you go" cell phone services?
If so, what is the best?
I'm interested in having a cell phone for emergencies and for trips to the mainland (so it'd have to be able to work nationwide), but I don't want to be tied to a contract or regular monthly fee.
Right now I'm with Verizon Wireless, but I use my cell so infrequently (10-20 minutes on average/month) that the $25 monthly cost is just not worth it.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cellphone
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To: k2blader
Its too bad that Cricket isn't nationwide. I think thats true anyway. Not sure. But for $50/mo you can get 500 long distance minutes and unlimited local calls. And now they have added a deal where you can get a "Flex Bucket", which is an extra 5/mo, and you prepay for your calls you make outside the coverage area while traveling. I was going to switch until they added that because your Cricket phone is completely worthless after you leave the area (Wichita area)
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posted on
09/07/2005 7:44:47 PM PDT
by
SaintDismas
(Jest becuz you put yer boots in the oven, don't make it bread)
To: k2blader
I have a Tracphone and live in the middle of deep forest. It doesn't work here...but, then again no one else's does. Still, the entire county I live in is steep hills, deep valleys and a very remote and sparsely populated place (40,000 in the entire county).
In this area, Tracphone works just as well as all the others. I should add that I got the Motorola phone and not the the el-cheapo that comes with the $29.95 intro special
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posted on
09/07/2005 10:41:28 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: speed_addiction
I just switched from Cingular to TracFone in June. I got a Nokia phone (factory refurbed, 1 yr warranty), 40 minutes good for 90 days for less than $30.
I activated on line for another 10 minutes and bought a 1 year card with 150 minutes that doubles any purchased minutes (making my 150 into 300) for $120. Then I switched my old number over for another 100 minutes and sent invites to my freinds to swap. Anytime they swap & use my email as a reference they & I get 100 minutes. I ended up with 500 minutes good until 12/2006 for about $150.
That works out to about $8.33 a month if I don't use up my 500 minutes in the next 18 months.
TracFone also extends time from your last end date up to 24 months.
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posted on
09/08/2005 9:46:45 AM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(Do you mind if I take a quick look around your house? I'm afraid you may have hippies.)
To: Semper Vigilantis
Oops. Forgot to mention that I got the 'Single Rate' plan which is good anywhere in the country. The regular 'snag the teens plan' charges 2 for 1 when roaming.
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posted on
09/08/2005 9:48:33 AM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(Do you mind if I take a quick look around your house? I'm afraid you may have hippies.)
To: Semper Vigilantis
Oops. Forgot to mention that I got the 'Single Rate' plan which is good anywhere in the country. The regular 'snag the teens plan' charges 2 for 1 when roaming.
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posted on
09/08/2005 9:50:16 AM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(Do you mind if I take a quick look around your house? I'm afraid you may have hippies.)
To: k2blader
Sign up as a 2nd phone under a friend's or family member's plan. We signed up my sister at $10/month, and she can use 120 minutes (she rarely uses more than 15).
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posted on
09/08/2005 4:47:39 PM PDT
by
Kevin OMalley
(No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
To: FateAmenableToChange
Where did you purchase that plan? I went to verizon last week and they want to charge me a dollar a day access and ten cents a minute! can you please email me at jrd1237@hotmail.com
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posted on
09/23/2005 7:07:15 PM PDT
by
jrd1237
(jared)
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