What cell phone and service plan do you have?

[The Critic]

Just ordered my first cell phone(s) this past week.

Two Motorola KRZRs and a Jabra Bluetooth Headset shipped free via FedEx Next Business Day air, paired with a $59.99/mo FamilyTalk Plan from AT&T. Dad also gets a 17% corporate discount so the final rate plan will only run $49/mo or so.

What cell phone and service plan do you have?

 

[XS650]

1. Motorola V360 GSM on Locus Mobile GSM, uses the ATT's network for $10/month.

2. Motorola V265 CDMA on Locus Platinum, uses Verizon's network for $10/month.

They are pay ahead plans and the $10/month covers a bit over an hours air time which is more then we use. Their rates drop with higher usage, but wouldn't make sense for a real heavy phone user.

I got the two phones in different networks so we would have coverage most anyplace in the US we traveled.

I bought both phones new on e-Bay for a reasonable price, they are both unlocked.

Both have nationwide roaming at no extra cost anytime you are on their network and you can call 50 countries at no extra charge.

 

[Master ACiD]

att family talk. the basic 450 plan, but with 3 extra phones.
so its $80 a month for 4 phones and we have to split 450 minutes a month between the 4. it works out good because all 4 people are litel talkers so we actually hve rollover. no one in this family jawjacks on the tele.

 

[ThirdeYe]

T-Mobile MyFaves (5 people for free, unlimited calling, etc.) w/300 whenever minutes. Also have unlimited texting/picture messaging. The phone's a Motorola Razr w/Limited Edition Miami Ink Dragon Tattoo. It's about $45 a month.

 

[Al]

Two elcheapo LG phones with ATT 450 minutes. 62 bucks/month (including taxes). I like them.

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

Nokia Tracfone. The phone cost 20 bucks and I spend about $110 per year for minutes.

 

[UncleS2]

Tracfone! Finally got off the never-ending treadmill of paying all those monthly fees for unused minutes. Now have a Motorola 261 phone- got phone, 620 minutes, 14 months service and a "minute doubling" feature on sale at the TF website late last October for about $135. Still ~500 minutes left on it.

And when I buy my minutes in an annual block for next year(~$100)- they'll be doubled. If you burn up 2 hrs or more a month, there are better ways to go. But for me, this works great.

 

[MrCritical]

In my area Cingular/ATT has the best coverage, but the most uncool phones.

Razr is the worst cell phone I've ever experienced. Had 4 I've had to exchange so far. Won't text, doesn't show missed calls, volume drops out, ect.

 

[ThirdeYe]

The only problem i've had with mine in the 10 months I've owned it is that the backlight behind the keys burned out so I can't see the keys in the dark. Other than that, it's been fine. It's a little laggy and only holds 30 text messages (but it can hold 100 pictures? doesn't make much sense...) though. Not a big deal to me though.

 

[Pablo]

Why do you need two cellphones? One for pop?

I have a small Samsung just big enough for my hand and fits in the pocket without a bulge. Verizon family plan for all the girls and phones. In the last year, one dropped in the street and run over, one in the creek, one through the wash....we get the no/low cost phones.

 

[Auto-Union]

I pay $15/mo for 150 minutes on Net10. I don't care about the phone itself or features. It's like walking up to a pay phone, who cares how nice and pretty it is as long as you can make a call?

 

[obbop]

Nokia something or the other basic no-frills.

Pay 15 cents per minute with a pre-pay plan. Pay ahead and draw upon that fund.

Make one call per month to avoid a $4 monthly non-use fee.

Thus, costs 15-cents per month to have a usable cell phone at hand.

Paid-up fund does not get reduced unless calls are actually made.

Cell phone saved for emergency use only.

Ain't nobody I want to call to chat to.

View those incessently babbling away on their cell phones as inferior creatures who should not be allowed to drive nor vote and a bunch of other stuff.

What a waste of precious oxygens those babbling buffoons are.

But, that's just a cootish opinion from a hermit-like blob huddled in a shanty.

At least I don't enter the freeway at 30 mph while yapping on the cell or drive non-chalantly through the red light while..... yapping on the cell phone or be stuck behind a cell phone yapper who takes a mile to reach the 45 mph speed limit on a main thoroughfare or the yapper who continuously applies their brake for NO reason while..... yapping on their cell phone.

I truly wish all those doing that stuff will impact a tree and do the gene pool a favor. I really do.

And, to think, I don't speed. But I do drive sanely, unlike so many cell phone yappers.

KILL THEM!!!!! KILL THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/rant mode over.
//shanty bound as much as possible to avoid the buffoons infesting this planet
///addendum rant mode over

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

There's a culture war coming and it's fought between cell phone yakking drivers and good drivers.

 

[TallPaul]

Page Plus. Can't remember the costs exactly, but you buy minutes and have 120 days to use them, but can carry extra minutes over if you buy more before the 120 days is up.

Now I think you get 800 minues for $50 but would have to look it up. I put $50 on it in late May and still have about 4 hours left. Can buy smaller amounts too.

 

[huffmuds9320]

Samsung A570, Verizon Wireless. Before I used to have a Nokia 3285. My family has the family share plan, 3 phones sharing one account. I think it was like 500-600 minutes works fine. Good reception, sometimes inside buildings can't get signal.

I don't even use the phone that much since I usually do e-mail. The phone is like carrying a watch just to see the time. I have about 30 hours of use on this phone since I got it around 2 years ago. So if you don't use the phone a lot like me then getting one of those "pay as you go" plans work very well. Of course don't drive and talk on phone, I usually call back or pull to the side.

 

[sxg6]

Casio g'zone type-s with verizon service, and i love both.

 

[rjundi]

Verizon since they are the only ones in New England (North) that have decent coverage. I get a nice 22% discount on service through my employer.

Wife has free smallish LG phone and I have Motorola Razr that I am still waiting for that $50 free rebate(1 year now) to come back.

We pay $80 I believe for 1400 shared minutes.

 

[Shannow]

hundred year old Motorola (don't know the model, but I can't change the ring tone to anything other than the standard selections...it's that old), with which we pay Vodaphone twenty or thirty bucks every 3 or 4 months to give us some more pre-paid access to mobile telecommunications.

mobile phone is stationary for 99.7% of its existence.

Pre paid mobiles, paying with debit cards. not very Australian.

 

[Al]

To these prepay things do roaming?? Without roaming charges??

 

[CivicFan]

I have the To Go from T-Mobile and they do roaming without extra charges. These couple of days I've been on the ATT network.