I believe Page Plus no longer has roaming. It had roaming last May as I got stuck using roaming, but according to their web page they no longer charge for roaming, which I believe came about a couple months ago. Also I was wrong above, you get 700 minutes for $50. Still a great deal and there are smaller amounts available. Of course you can get into areas of no service, like I did along the Texas/Mexico border between Big Bend National Park and Presidio TX.
What cell phone and service plan do you have?
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When my plan runs out I might need to go with 2 prepay phones. I like the fact that minutes carry over on ATT and they have the best reception in my area. I also like the free cell to cell calls. It all comes at a price but for the next 9 months I'm not leaving.
They will have to anti up on my next contract though. Roll out those "secret" loyalty deals ftw.
They will have to anti up on my next contract though. Roll out those "secret" loyalty deals ftw.
This Nokia Brick (the only thing that works like a champ in **&&@@ Buies Creek! and it's solid; camera is pretty good, but i hardly use it) and Alltel (service has been great so far):
I have a Motorola I560 and my wife has a Motorola I730, both on the Nextel iden network. Free radio and incoming calls with 500 anytime minutes cost me around $140 a month.
The Locus cell service that I use I does have free roaming all over the US as long as I'm in the actual carriers network. One phone is on the ATT network, the other is on the Verizon network, so I'm pretty well covered. I occasionally, but not often, make a call from some place where I would be paying 4x the normal rate for the call if I made it. On the rare occasion that happens, I try my wifes phone on the other carriers network or drive a few more miles and I'm usually back in regular coverage.
Both phone use varieties of Locus service which I buy through ecallplus.com. The only drawback to Locus for me is that if you are using less than a couple of hours worth of minutes a month, you need to add minutes every 30 days or your old minutes don't roll over and your account may be canceled. That's not a big deal except when you re-instate your account you may have new number.
I haven't compared Locus to the competition in over a year so m not going to say they are the best for any particular situation, but they are good.
I used to have Verizon and went to ATT bc it had a better singular. I find the ATT service equal or better than Verizon. You have to remember that things may have changed since you had ATT service in 2002.
As a matter of fact I just got home from the ATT phone Store. Bad card..the pretty looking lady fixed me up (the phone that is) in 2 minutes.
We have a cheap no-frills Motorola w315 with an Alltel Simplefreedom pay-per-minute plan. Fifteen-cents per minute, 10 cents per text, and since we don't use it too much...it ends up costing us $12-15 a month. Much cheaper than the $50/month plan we had with US Cellular before.
1. Bad
2. Worse
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I used to have 2. (ATT).
Now I use ATT's network through a 3rd party pay ahead plan and don't have any direct dealings with ATT. Much nicer than dealing directly with them. As soon as Vonage gets enhanced 911 in my area, my ATT landline is going away too.
ATT/Cingular
It's good for the most part,but it sucks you can call from the east coast but not ten miles from here.
I just got a Nokia 6126 or something like that. I hardly ever use my phone unless it's an emergency or I'm trying to find my wife in the mall.
It's good for the most part,but it sucks you can call from the east coast but not ten miles from here.
I just got a Nokia 6126 or something like that. I hardly ever use my phone unless it's an emergency or I'm trying to find my wife in the mall.
We currently have AT&T, I mean Cingular, I mean AT&T again. I'm sick of the $70 a month(smallest family plan), and we have 5000 roll over minutes. On a average month we use 200 minutes and the rest go to waste.
I'm thinking of switching to Net10, but I'm having a hard time talking my wife into it. With them our bill would be 10-40 a month, and they seem to have the simplest, cheapest setup. They use GSM or CDMA, which really are about the same in our area, but I think they use Sprint's CDMA network, which is poor up north.
Anyone else try Net10?
I'm thinking of switching to Net10, but I'm having a hard time talking my wife into it. With them our bill would be 10-40 a month, and they seem to have the simplest, cheapest setup. They use GSM or CDMA, which really are about the same in our area, but I think they use Sprint's CDMA network, which is poor up north.
Anyone else try Net10?
yup.
Canceled the KRZR and ordered two RAZR V3xx Platinum phones instead. Discovered that Sacramento has full 3G network support so I ought to take advantage of 3G's improved voice quality and signal strength.
I have a prepaid nokia t mobile to go prepaid service. I paid like 35 bucks for the phone back in February of this year and have a 1000 minutes for $100
no roaming charges, have voice mail that I check with my free voip at no charge to my minutes. According to their website, I have 809 minutes left. After a year, I'll pay for more minutes. From what I understand, as long as I renew within the year, I won't lose my minutes that I paid for. they roll over with the minutes I buy. I use my phone for emergency only. After 3-4 years, I figure I'll have almost 3000 minutes at my disposal prepaid.
no roaming charges, have voice mail that I check with my free voip at no charge to my minutes. According to their website, I have 809 minutes left. After a year, I'll pay for more minutes. From what I understand, as long as I renew within the year, I won't lose my minutes that I paid for. they roll over with the minutes I buy. I use my phone for emergency only. After 3-4 years, I figure I'll have almost 3000 minutes at my disposal prepaid.
VIAERO...prepaid...50 cents a day...free nights and weekends...I only use the nights and weekends so I get phone for about 15 bucks a day...motorola...
Motorola Razor. Disappointed that the batteries (in my wife and my phone) are already shot in less than a year. $40 to replace in each.
I'm on Nextel using a Motorola i530 (basic, basic work phone). I pay $20 for a second personal line with 400 minutes and free weekends/nights, and keep my work minutes paid for by my employer completely separated from my personal minutes. If I've got to carry the thing for work, at least I can also do my personal business on the same phone!
Wife was on ATT/Cingular/ATT on a Nokia brick until the plan cost went up. We miss the Nokia brick though...
She's now on Sprint on a cheapy Samsung(?). Friends and family discount ended up with 500 minutes for $30 a month, free calls to sprint/nextel users (like me) and unlimited nights weekends.
The personal phone line at home has completely gone away and all long distance is no via cell phone. When its all said and done, we have two cell phones and lines with free long distance that costs less than the land line phone and long distance services.
Wife was on ATT/Cingular/ATT on a Nokia brick until the plan cost went up. We miss the Nokia brick though...
She's now on Sprint on a cheapy Samsung(?). Friends and family discount ended up with 500 minutes for $30 a month, free calls to sprint/nextel users (like me) and unlimited nights weekends.
The personal phone line at home has completely gone away and all long distance is no via cell phone. When its all said and done, we have two cell phones and lines with free long distance that costs less than the land line phone and long distance services.
We use our excess payahead minutes (when we have over about 300 at renewal time)for long distance calls instead of using a land line and paying long distance. Beats letting them just sit there.
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