Re: Prepaid cell and docking station

1jposi@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking for a docking station and prepaid cell phone to dock.
> Tracfone doesn't sell phones compatible with Dockntalk or Merge. I
> understand that used phones on the internet may have an unpaid balance
> on them or may be uncompatible with a local cell service.
> What do I do?
> This is for an alarm system that ordinarily makes a single 1-minute
> call per day. Land line service for this alarm has climbed to $25 per
> month and it's probably going to continue climbing

You can use any Verizon compatible phone with PagePlus, and a lot of
those phones are compatible with Dock-N-Talk.

"http://cellantenna.com/Dockingstations/modelcable.htm"

PagePlus is a lot cheaper than Tracfone.

You have to add $10 every 120 days, so it works out to about
$2.50/month, though thirty 14¢ calls per month will up the cost to
$4.20/month, plus they charge 50¢ per month service fee, so it's about
$5/month.

If you have T-Mobile coverage, their prepaid is even cheaper once you
achieve "Gold" status by buying an $100 card. Then you only have to add
time once per year, and the price per minute is 10¢ on the $100 card.
Since it's a stationary phone, you don't have to worry about T-Mobile's
admittedly less than stellar coverage, as long as the alarm location has
coverage you're okay.

Your idea sounds workable. I happen to have my old verizon cell phone.
But how does pageplus (or I) tell it that it's now pageplus and no
longer verizon?

SMS wrote:

> 1jposi@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a docking station and prepaid cell phone to dock.
>> Tracfone doesn't sell phones compatible with Dockntalk or Merge. I
>> understand that used phones on the internet may have an unpaid balance
>> on them or may be uncompatible with a local cell service.
>> What do I do?
>> This is for an alarm system that ordinarily makes a single 1-minute
>> call per day. Land line service for this alarm has climbed to $25 per
>> month and it's probably going to continue climbing
>
>
> You can use any Verizon compatible phone with PagePlus, and a lot of
> those phones are compatible with Dock-N-Talk.
>
> "http://cellantenna.com/Dockingstations/modelcable.htm"
>
> PagePlus is a lot cheaper than Tracfone.
>
> You have to add $10 every 120 days, so it works out to about
> $2.50/month, though thirty 14¢ calls per month will up the cost to
> $4.20/month, plus they charge 50¢ per month service fee, so it's about
> $5/month.
>
> If you have T-Mobile coverage, their prepaid is even cheaper once you
> achieve "Gold" status by buying an $100 card. Then you only have to add
> time once per year, and the price per minute is 10¢ on the $100 card.
> Since it's a stationary phone, you don't have to worry about T-Mobile's
> admittedly less than stellar coverage, as long as the alarm location has
> coverage you're okay.

Joe Esposito wrote:
> Your idea sounds workable. I happen to have my old verizon cell phone.
> But how does pageplus (or I) tell it that it's now pageplus and no
> longer verizon?

I have no idea. But I've activated three old Verizon phones on PagePlus
without a problem.

Joe Esposito <jposi@flash.net> wrote in
news:en4Ah.6202$4H1.3835@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net:

> Your idea sounds workable. I happen to have my old verizon cell phone.
> But how does pageplus (or I) tell it that it's now pageplus and no
> longer verizon?
>
> SMS wrote:
>
>> 1jposi@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for a docking station and prepaid cell phone to dock.
>>> Tracfone doesn't sell phones compatible with Dockntalk or Merge. I
>>> understand that used phones on the internet may have an unpaid
>>> balance on them or may be uncompatible with a local cell service.
>>> What do I do?
>>> This is for an alarm system that ordinarily makes a single 1-minute
>>> call per day. Land line service for this alarm has climbed to $25
>>> per month and it's probably going to continue climbing
>>
>>
>> You can use any Verizon compatible phone with PagePlus, and a lot of
>> those phones are compatible with Dock-N-Talk.
>>
>> "http://cellantenna.com/Dockingstations/modelcable.htm"
>>
>> PagePlus is a lot cheaper than Tracfone.
>>
>> You have to add $10 every 120 days, so it works out to about
>> $2.50/month, though thirty 14¢ calls per month will up the cost to
>> $4.20/month, plus they charge 50¢ per month service fee, so it's
>> about $5/month.
>>
>> If you have T-Mobile coverage, their prepaid is even cheaper once you
>> achieve "Gold" status by buying an $100 card. Then you only have to
>> add time once per year, and the price per minute is 10¢ on the $100
>> card. Since it's a stationary phone, you don't have to worry about
>> T-Mobile's admittedly less than stellar coverage, as long as the
>> alarm location has coverage you're okay.

Page Plus is a reseller of Verizon service. That's why you have to use a Verizon phone. Oddly
enough, Page Plus themselves do not appear to do activations; you can get them from other Page Plus
resellers, many have listings on Ebay.

J.