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Cellular Phone Forum / General / General Topics / May 2008** Changing to Prepaid???
Hello everyone: I hardly ever use my cellular phone, pretty much for emergency local calls most of the time, however, I pay about $50 a month and I always lose the rollover minutes because I don't use them. My contract will expire next month so I decided I am going to change to prepaid phone. I was wondering what is your opinion of NET10? They charge $30 for the telephone and 300 minutes and then you can buy additional 300 minutes for $29. No monthly fees, it sounds like a good deal. I heard PagePlus is very good; I am not too familiar with their plan. Is there any other good pre-paid company I should know about it? Thank you for your help. Kathy That 300 minutes may expire in 90 days and you will have to buy more. We use T-Mobile to go and bought good Motorola V195 phones Online for $40 that have quad band and blue tooth. Then bought $100 worth of minutes (1000) that lasts all year. Once you buy $100 worth of minutes you become a gold member and the following amount of minutes you buy no matter how little ie: $10 lasts a year and your unused minutes roll over. http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/ http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/prepaid.aspx > Hello everyone: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Kathy > Hello everyone: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > use them. My contract will expire next month so I decided I am going to > change to prepaid phone. That's an excellent idea if your usage is less than a couple hundred minutes a month. > I was wondering what is your opinion of NET10? They charge $30 for the > telephone and 300 > minutes and then you can buy additional 300 minutes for $29. No monthly > fees, it sounds like > a good deal. Define "no monthly fees." While technically there's no monthly fee, the fact that the airtime minutes expire unless you refill periodically creates a "virtual" monthly fee. Net10 is one of the highest in this regard, since you need to add a $30 card every 60 days to remain active, creating a $15/month cost to using the service. Dave Markson created an excellent comparison chart at: http://www.cellguru.net/prepaid_compare.htm to compare the per minute costs, and monthly minimum costs of the popular (and not-so-popular but excellent value) prepaid providers out there. Like the other poster who replied to you, T-Mobile offers the absolute lowest monthly cost prepaid plan ($100/1000 minutes the first year, and as little as $10 per subsequent year.) > I heard PagePlus is very good; I am not too familiar with their plan. PagePlus is excellent- they have the best coverage of any prepaid provider, and a $2.50/month minimum usage ($10 every 120 days.) They're the hardest to buy, perhaps, since there are very few stores that sell it, but it's easy enough to buy online. (www.pagepluswireless.com) > Is there any other good pre-paid company I should know about it? > > Thank you for your help. It would help us if we knew who you use for your current service, since you might be able to reuse your current phone on a prepaid provider. I.e. if you're with AT&T or T-Mobile, you could request an "unlock code" from your current carrier (BEFORE YOU CANCEL SERVICE!) so that phone could be used on any GSM carrier (AT&T GoPhone, T-Mobile prepaid, Beyond Wireless, etc.) All major carriers offering prepaid (T-Mo, AT&T, Verizon) offer excellent online coverage maps that would help you rule out any service that doesn't work where you do! Hello Patrick and Todd: Thank you very much for your replies. T-Mobile sounds like a great deal and the Motorola V195 as well. I'll check PagePlus. I currently have Cingular and as I mentioned, my contract will expire next month. Thank you again, Kathy. ========== ======================== ============== > > Hello everyone: > > [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > online coverage maps that would help you rule out any service that doesn't > work where you do! Kathy says... > Thank you very much for your replies. T-Mobile sounds > like a great deal and the Motorola V195 as well. I'll > check PagePlus. I currently have Cingular and as I > mentioned, my contract will expire next month. Since you use Cingular, you might want to look at: http://www.airvoicewireless.com/ It's a Cingular reseller, and you should be able to use your existing phone. Don't know about keeping the same number though. Works out to $3.33 a month - a minimum of $10 every 90 days. But as Todd said, you should look at the Prepaid Comparison chart at cellguru.net. > Hello everyone: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Kathy Been using Tracfone since before anyone knew what it was. Have very good service with it. The monthly contracts are crazy. |
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