Re: The Cheapest Cell Phone Plans

meetjennyjenny@gmail.com schrieb:
> Prepaid cell phone plans are great if you will not be using the cell
> phone very often. If you use a cell phone for emergencies only, you'll
> benefit from pay as you go since it doesn't cost much to add minutes
> to your prepaid cell phone and you won't need to top up again for
> awhile.
> http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....ll_phone_plans
>

You should say where you are. In the US?

Elsewhere it can be VERY different.
In Germany we have prepaid phones which just need to be "reloaded" for
say 10 Euro after a YEAR.
And there are contracts at good prices 14 cent/min or so which have no
monthly fee and do NOT expire and are postpaid.

These providers are selling and servicing mainly over the net.

I really do not understand why this does not exist in the US.
This type of contract would give a GREAT push to the use of mobile
phones in the US.

Here the POOR cannot afford a fixed phone line. So the buy a cheap GSM
phone and a prepaid card. This is MUCH cheaper. Remember: incoming calls
do not cost anything here because the CALLER is paying 10 to 18 cent/min
for calling mobile lines which have different area codes.

Wolfgang

On Sep 25, 5:46 am, Wolfgang Barth <bart...@spamfence.net> wrote:
> meetjennyje...@gmail.com schrieb:
>
> >Prepaidcellphoneplans are great if you will not be using the cell
> >phonevery often. If you use a cellphonefor emergencies only, you'll
> > benefit from pay as you go since it doesn't cost much to add minutes
> > to yourprepaidcellphoneand you won't need to top up again for
> > awhile.
> >http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....ll_phone_plans
>
> You should say where you are. In the US?
>
> Elsewhere it can be VERY different.
> In Germany we haveprepaidphones which just need to be "reloaded" for
> say 10 Euro after a YEAR.
> And there are contracts at good prices 14 cent/min or so which have no
> monthly fee and do NOT expire and are postpaid.
>
> These providers are selling and servicing mainly over the net.
>
> I really do not understand why this does not exist in the US.
> This type of contract would give a GREAT push to the use of mobile
> phones in the US.
>
> Here the POOR cannot afford a fixedphoneline. So the buy a cheap GSMphoneand aprepaidcard. This is MUCH cheaper. Remember: incoming calls
> do not cost anything here because the CALLER is paying 10 to 18 cent/min
> for calling mobile lines which have different area codes.
>
> Wolfgang

Just like what I've said on another topic, I got a T-mobile prepaid
which I just need to refill every 90 days for a minimum of $10 because
I only use it for emergency situations or as a back up. I got a
landline for my local calls and got a Onesuite account for my long
distance calls. I can use my Onesuite account as a prepaid calling
card and as a Voip where it saves me more and comes handy when I
travel because rates would be still be the same 2.5 cents for calling
any part of U.S. whenever I am...yes even if go to U.K. or Singapore
still 2.5 cents per minute calling back home.

In message <5lqphcF9di8jU1@mid.individual.net> Wolfgang Barth
<barthwo@spamfence.net> wrote:

>meetjennyjenny@gmail.com schrieb:
>> Prepaid cell phone plans are great if you will not be using the cell
>> phone very often. If you use a cell phone for emergencies only, you'll
>> benefit from pay as you go since it doesn't cost much to add minutes
>> to your prepaid cell phone and you won't need to top up again for
>> awhile.
>> http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....ll_phone_plans
>>
>
>You should say where you are. In the US?
>
>Elsewhere it can be VERY different.
>In Germany we have prepaid phones which just need to be "reloaded" for
>say 10 Euro after a YEAR.

T-Mobile is $100 up front (To get to "Gold" status), and then $10/year
after that. Catch the right promotion and the phone is free in the deal
too. Great for extremely occasional use.

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You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word.

Zee wrote:

> Just like what I've said on another topic, I got a T-mobile prepaid
> which I just need to refill every 90 days for a minimum of $10 because
> I only use it for emergency situations or as a back up.

On T-Mobile you can do $10/year if you first spend $100 to become "Gold".

Also, PagePlus operates on Verizon's CDMA network, providing much better
coverage than T-Mobile prepaid, and it's $10 every 120 days.

> I got a
> landline for my local calls and got a Onesuite account for my long
> distance calls. I can use my Onesuite account as a prepaid calling
> card and as a Voip where it saves me more and comes handy when I
> travel because rates would be still be the same 2.5 cents for calling
> any part of U.S. whenever I am...yes even if go to U.K. or Singapore
> still 2.5 cents per minute calling back home.

No, this isn't the case. UK to U.S. is 9.9¢/minute. There is no service
from Singapore. Unless you're talking about VOIP, then it's 2.5¢ no
matter where you are, assuming you have free internet access.

Wolfgang Barth wrote:
> meetjennyjenny@gmail.com schrieb:
>> Prepaid cell phone plans are great if you will not be using the cell
>> phone very often. If you use a cell phone for emergencies only, you'll
>> benefit from pay as you go since it doesn't cost much to add minutes
>> to your prepaid cell phone and you won't need to top up again for
>> awhile.
>> http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....ll_phone_plans
>>
>
> You should say where you are. In the US?

LOL, it's spam, there is no "you" there.