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I'm going to end my cell phone contract once its due in 3 months, I dont use up all my minutes anyways. I'm looking into prepaid. I pay 50 a month after tax.
I currently use T-mobile and their best pre-paid option is 100 dollars for 1000 minutes, or 10 cents a minute, and it expires in 1 year. so pretty much I can use 83 minutes per month on average. the rest, I can use my home phone. I find myself using my cell phone at home a lot, while I can just use the home phone and save money.
are there better options out there? that beats 10 cents a minute and have a year expiration? I don't care about data, text, or all the bells and whistles. my cell phone is 10 years old, and I use it just to call people, nothing more.
It is hard to really hard to beat T-mobile's one year $100 1000 minutes deal for cost and convenience with your usage profile. You are paying a little over $8/month, only have to think about it once per year, and if you do need a new phone you can pick one up for $20.
Are you hoping to get $6/month instead of $8 and save a couple bucks?
From what I have seen with friends the lowerrest cost aften means por service. I don't know now many i have seen switch to a major carrier prepaid have having so mnay poroiblems with cheaper carriers.Also remmber your present cellphne proably would work with all carriers.Contracts often pay the mapority or even give you a phone below cost of the phone. perosbnally I'd ask around locally as s4rvice varies as far a problems with dropped calls etc.
It is hard to really hard to beat T-mobile's one year $100 1000 minutes deal for cost and convenience with your usage profile. You are paying a little over $8/month, only have to think about it once per year, and if you do need a new phone you can pick one up for $20.
Are you hoping to get $6/month instead of $8 and save a couple bucks?
well, if I can get more minutes for the same amount of money, yes. money-wise, I want to save because I don't have a job now. I know, paying 8 bucks a month certainly beats 50 a month.
I don't know much about other companies, i have used t-mobile for 10 years, and it was my first time using a cell phone. I really dont know about at&t, boost, Verizon, etc.. I dont know about how their coverage is and reliability.
I have a Tracfone. I very rarely use it, keep it for travel only, and I can keep it active for $80 a year, with about 200 minutes. They have excellent customer service, too, talk to a helpful human very quickly, and get things resolved..
I have a Tracfone too. I have a LG420g phone. It's a $15 phone. It has a camera and web browser but I never use those features. Its fine for occasional calls and texts.
The $100 400minute/1 year Tracfone service card gives 1000 minutes with a double minutes for life phone (which most of the TF phones are) and a 200 minute bomus code. I recently found that $100 card for $69 on ebay. It came with a cheap phone, but I just used the minutes on another phone. You can bring your price per minute down by looking for deals on cards and bonus codes. There is a good yahoogroup that I get a lot of tips of where the deals are from other folks using Tracfones.
Another Tracfone user here. It costs $99 for one year and 450 minutes. Some of the phones give you double minutes. You can buy the basic LG for $15 or upgrade to a nicer phone for slightly more. IMO it's the best value.
The good thing about T-Mobile prepaid is that once you buy a $100 card you are enrolled in their gold rewards plan automatically. At the end of 12 months, if you buy a refill card, any minutes you did not use in the prior 12 months roll over and are added onto your new refill minutes. You don't have to buy another $100 refill card, you can just buy a $50 refill card, and those minutes are valid for a full year. Plus, T-Mobile gives you an additional 15 percent reward in minutes for every refill, after the first $100 refill.
T-Mobile has some retail store locations in most metro areas, and they have good coverage in most parts of the country that I have visited.
Tracfone. I love it. I have triple minutes for life. I think I have the LG800, but there are many phones.
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