Seven-11 Speakout Wireless, The Prepaid Service few know about .. .

clifto wrote:
> SMS wrote:
>> Actually, with T-Mobile you want to buy a $100 card _before_ they change
>> the terms regarding future airtime purchases. One things that the
>> carriers have been pretty good about is honoring terms from older plans.
>> With postpaid plans they could just tell you that the terms have changed
>> after the contract is over, but they usually don't. With T-Mobile, they
>> never say that the $100 airtime purchase and "Gold Status" has an
>> expiration date for future airtime lasting a year. They're obligated to
>> give you the 1 year expiration as long as they're in business.
>
> For those 100 minutes. The next 100 they sell you could come with different
> conditions.

No, what they say is that achieving "gold status," by buying the $100
card, means that all future airtime cards, of any value, are good for a
year.

They could, if they wanted to, end the whole gold program for new
prepaid users. However I think that the gold program is a very clever
piece of marketing, and enhances customer loyalty. For every user
spending very little amount per month, there are probably many that are
spending a considerable amount of money.

T-Mobile's attitude is different than the other carriers on prepaid. The
other carriers make their prepaid plans very unattractive in terms of
cost because they're fearful that their postpaid customers will change
to prepaid if they offer prepaid that is too good of a deal. T-Mobile
seems to believe that they have more to gain by pricing their prepaid
fairly.

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Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 26 Sep 2007 19:04:41 -0500 clifto wrote:
>> > Phones start a $39, but the Nokia bluetooth-enabled 6103 is
> available
>> > for $59- a pretty good deal for a bluetooth camera phone.
>>
>> Cool. When I looked the other night, the cheapest BT phone wally
> world
>> had was a $99 Samsung.
>
> Just to clarify, that $59 6103 with "free" $25 card is on T-Mo's
> website only...

Thanks. I caught that, my point was only about the $40 savings.

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At 27 Sep 2007 14:25:46 -0500 clifto wrote:

> > Just to clarify, that $59 6103 with "free" $25 card is on T-Mo's
> > website only...
>
> Thanks. I caught that, my point was only about the $40 savings.


I figured you probably did, but the clarification was also to help
anyone who might be "eavesdropping" on our conversation.


My only other advice would be to move quickly if you're interested.
T-Mo pulls the "free $25 card promo" out from under us without warning.
Then it comes back in a few weeks, but that 6103 dropped to $59 from
$99 awhile ago, and AFAIK, it's discontinued, so who knows if it'll
be around the next time they give the $25 cards away.


Cheers!


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or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

SMS wrote:
> vey wrote:
>> SMS wrote:
>> High roaming rates, high
>>> in-network rates, high monthly fee, poorer coverage than other
>>> services, and no web presence). Also, you _must_ purchase the phone
>>> at a 7-11, no web sales. This is fine in areas of the country that
>>> have 7-11, but there are some major metropolitan ares without 7-11
>>> stores, i.e. Atlanta.
>>
>> No roaming rates. Can't roam.
>
> You most certainly can roam on 7-11 SpeakOut, and I have done it.
>
> Go back and read the terms at
> "http://www.7-eleven.com/products/docs/sfw054111_mch_bro_06_E.pdf"
>
> "Extended Coverage Area is charged 39˘ per minute of service and may be
> subject to additional charges."
>
> Also look at the maps, and you can see the vast areas that are "Extended
> Coverage." At least you're okay in most metro areas. But venture out to
> where a small regional carrier provides service and it's a different story.
>
> PagePlus also charges 59˘ for roaming, but you'll do a _lot_ less
> roaming because you only get charged for roaming off of Verizon's
> Extended Network (which included most smaller CDMA networks). Only once
> have I ever been in a place where roaming was charged (you know you're
> roaming when you have to enter the phone number twice). One other way to
> get charged for roaming is if you have an 1900 MHz only handset in areas
> where Verizon is only at 800 MHz, because you'll be roaming onto Sprint.
> However there are almost none of these handsets on the market that work
> on PagePlus (Sprint used to sell some, but I don't think they have them
> anymore, and Sprint handsets don't work on PagePlus).

I wouldn't use Sprint. Around here, only suckers use Sprint. Coverage is
awful. This is a Cingular NG, so I wasn't going to mention Sprint.

You are the first and only person I've ever heard that can roam on
Speakout GSM. You better tell the guy that runs the prepaid page about
this, because he says there isn't any. Many people have reported the same.

I just made a call the other day and the rate was $0.15 a minute. Don't
know why. But if I pay $25 for a card and only pay 3 cents more for
minutes that last a year rather than 4 months, I will gladly pay that
premium.

Also, I have never given the company any of my personal info. I go down
the the corner, pay $25 (plus sales tax) in cash and recharge my phone.
They don't know who I am and they have never asked.