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Least costly cell phone option

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randym431

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I have verizon now. Pay a mostly fixed monthly fee for two phones and share hours plan. I rarely use my cell. Maybe 10 min a month at most and thats just calling my home to check messages on the home phone. Is there a different option for some kind of pay as you go plan, or prepay plan. I see these phones at places like Walmart but not sure how it works. I'm looking for that type of phone where you maybe prepay for a few minutes a month. But it would be nice to keep the minutes (rollover) if you do not use in a month period. Dont know if something like this is available.???
 
That's how prepaid works. You put in like $10 for the month, and if you renew it by buying another $10 before your current one expires, then the minutes/value is carried over. Just need to be careful and watch your expiry date, because if you let it expire, then you lose all minutes you have.
 
prepaid plans are the way to go for that kind of stuff, unless you can get a company plan... my mom's got a 60 minute, $15/month deal - it's great for the infrequent user.
 
I think Virgin Mobile has one of the best plans for light users. $20 prepaid will last for 90 days. That's good for 80 minutes of airtime. Free incoming text messages too.

Looney, who has the $10/month prepaid?
 
Originally posted by: dwcal
I think Virgin Mobile has one of the best plans for light users. $20 prepaid will last for 90 days. That's good for 80 minutes of airtime. Free incoming text messages too.

Looney, who has the $10/month prepaid?
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I'm only aware of the ones in Canada, and both Fido and Rogers offer $10 ones.
 
Originally posted by: dwcal
I think Virgin Mobile has one of the best plans for light users. $20 prepaid will last for 90 days. That's good for 80 minutes of airtime. Free incoming text messages too.

Looney, who has the $10/month prepaid?
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If you enable auto topup you can do $15 every 90 days to keep your account active (normal minimum is $20/90 days, minutes never expire if you keep your account active). They don't really advertise this though. This is definately the cheapest way to go if you don't use your phone much. The actual airtime charges are a bit pricey though compared to other prepaids so choose your plan wisely if you are using your phone more often, $0.25/min for the first 10 minutes then $0.10/min after. The have other plans also.
 
Originally posted by: jadinolf
Cingular: $25 for 3 months plus you keep your minutes.
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The best that Cingular has is 10 cents a minute plus $1 on days you use your phone. They also have 25 cents a minute with no $1 fee.
 
tmobile 1000 minutes for 92 bucks (cheapphonecards.com), minutes don't expire for a whole year

I bought a tmobile sim on ebay for $15, which had 150 minutes then bought the 1000 card

(had a tmobile phone, but any unlocked gsm phone will do)
 
Originally posted by: randym431
I have verizon now. Pay a mostly fixed monthly fee for two phones and share hours plan. I rarely use my cell. Maybe 10 min a month at most and thats just calling my home to check messages on the home phone. Is there a different option for some kind of pay as you go plan, or prepay plan. I see these phones at places like Walmart but not sure how it works. I'm looking for that type of phone where you maybe prepay for a few minutes a month. But it would be nice to keep the minutes (rollover) if you do not use in a month period. Dont know if something like this is available.???
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You may only use 10 mins but what about the other party?? You say you have 2 phones? How many mins is used total each month?
 
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Originally posted by: jadinolf
Cingular: $25 for 3 months plus you keep your minutes.
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The best that Cingular has is 10 cents a minute plus $1 on days you use your phone. They also have 25 cents a minute with no $1 fee.
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I had #1 and switched to #2.
 
I had an extra, older T-mobile cell phone, so I gave it to my mom. She paid $50 for the T-mob Pay as you Go starter kit, which gives you a SIM card, phone number, and 150 minutes. If you don't have a phone, you can probably buy a cheap, unlocked GSM phone off ebay.

More info here
 
You may only use 10 mins but what about the other party?? You say you have 2 phones? How many mins is used total each month?
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They never use it. The other party is the one telling me they dont even turn it on. And I only use 10 min at most a month, so $70 a month for that seems a waste.

ANyway, thanks all. A lot of info here to guide me on.
 
Originally posted by: randym431
You may only use 10 mins but what about the other party?? You say you have 2 phones? How many mins is used total each month?
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They never use it. The other party is the one telling me they dont even turn it on. And I only use 10 min at most a month, so $70 a month for that seems a waste.

ANyway, thanks all. A lot of info here to guide me on.
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That's $7 a minute!
 
both tmobile and cingular have pay as you go plans. plus you get to use the latest GSM phones, not those crappy virgin mobile phones.
 
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