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Ditching monthly phone for prepaid... good idea?
Monolithic_Dome
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So I currently get my phone service on a family plan with my fiancee. This made a lot of sense when we lived 1000 miles apart, what with all the talking we did.
Now, however, I live with her, and am able to converse with her in person. I don't really talk on the phone like at all anymore. I'll make maybe 5-6 calls a week, and most of them are 5 minutes tops. I'm comfortable using Skype for the occasions that I need to make an extended phonecall.
I'm on T-Mobile, and from what I can tell I can but this to convert my existing phone to prepaid. After that, their pricing page suggests that I could spend $100 and get 1000 minutes, which would last me like a year.
Anything I'm missing here? Seems like there's always a catch with these tricksy cell phone companies.
Now, however, I live with her, and am able to converse with her in person. I don't really talk on the phone like at all anymore. I'll make maybe 5-6 calls a week, and most of them are 5 minutes tops. I'm comfortable using Skype for the occasions that I need to make an extended phonecall.
I'm on T-Mobile, and from what I can tell I can but this to convert my existing phone to prepaid. After that, their pricing page suggests that I could spend $100 and get 1000 minutes, which would last me like a year.
Anything I'm missing here? Seems like there's always a catch with these tricksy cell phone companies.
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I use tmobile prepaid and as you mentioned, if you top up with 100 dollars they are good for a year, and any subsequent top ups get some kind of bonus.
Just make sure to check that coverage map thing they have. tmobile can be pretty spotty if you are out in nowheretown.
Well he already has T-Mobile, so I assume coverage isn't an issue.
Anyway, I'm a poor college student and I use a prepaid RAZR for T-Mobile. It works out pretty great, theres no tricks or anything. Its just for people that don't talk or text all the time.
smurph: this depends on the carrier. I know outside the US you can get text-only plans (or at least plans where the main purpose is texting).
Text messaging costs a nickel a piece (I think) and it works out okay because you're not actually buying minutes per se but a $100 credit to be used on phone minutes, text message fees, and wallpaper/ringtone/game downloads.
EDIT: I would trust the poster above me for texting rates. I don't ever use it.
911 coverage is different from regular coverage. Hell, you can call 911 on any phone with a charge. It doesn't need a plan at all.
All of the places I regularly find myself are solid green though, so it looks like the plan is a go. Actually having an a-la-carte data plan would be better for me too, since right now if I wanted to download a single ringtone it's like "olol you gotta sign up for t-zones, 10 bucks a month"
Well, I mean emergency as in "My car broke down and I need to call for a tow" or "my friends ditched me after the party and mom needs to come pick me up." Common reasons to have a pay-as-you-go phone, but not exactly 911 material.
They might have updated the pay phones to simply be on their 3G networks so there's less to maintain, but it's definitely worth checking it out before you plink down the money.