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Watashi.wa.ichiban@gmail.com - 29 Nov 2005 21:52 GMT

"Unused Anytime Minutes expire after the 12th billing period."

Does this mean that the month I "added to rollover minutes" counts as
one month towards the 12 month expiration (11 month rollover) OR does
the 12 month clock start with the month after I added (a true 12 months
of available usage) ???????????

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Kevin - 30 Nov 2005 00:30 GMT

Explained on the Cingular website. But, I would hazard a guess that the
rollover minutes expire after the 12th billing period. Should be
interesting to go over to www.cingular.com to find out.

As an aside, a friend got his daughter a phone last year. They got her a
plan with 1000 minutes and rollover. Now, as you may be aware, 1000 minutes
is equal to 32.258 minutes per day, in a 31 day month. That's a lot of
talking when the aforementioned daughter is supposed to be working 8 hours,
going to school 4 hours, sleeping 8 hours and using the remaining 4 hours in
a day to do whatever it is she has to do.

So, the daughter is responsible with the phone and over the months the
rollover minutes gather. The last month of the rollover cycle comes and she
has 2400 minutes, more or less, to talk out or lose them. 2400 minutes is
40 hours! So, keep the whole rollover thing in some kind of perspective.

> "Unused Anytime Minutes expire after the 12th billing period."
>
> Does this mean that the month I "added to rollover minutes" counts as
> one month towards the 12 month expiration (11 month rollover) OR does
> the 12 month clock start with the month after I added (a true 12 months
> of available usage) ???????????

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Merlin - 30 Nov 2005 00:53 GMT

As it was explained to me, in month 13, only the minutes rolled over
in month 1 would expire - not all of them. In other words, you always
have (up to) 12 months of rollover minutes available.

>Explained on the Cingular website. But, I would hazard a guess that the
>rollover minutes expire after the 12th billing period. Should be
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>> the 12 month clock start with the month after I added (a true 12 months
>> of available usage) ???????????

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rring - 30 Nov 2005 15:04 GMT

>As it was explained to me, in month 13, only the minutes rolled over
>in month 1 would expire - not all of them. In other words, you always
>have (up to) 12 months of rollover minutes available.

That's exactly how it works. Of course you will only "always" have rollover
minutes if you re-collect them starting with the 13th month and so on.

>>Explained on the Cingular website. But, I would hazard a guess that the
>>rollover minutes expire after the 12th billing period. Should be
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
>>> the 12 month clock start with the month after I added (a true 12 months
>>> of available usage) ???????????

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