Prepaid or contract cell?

all the prepaid phone plans i know of are rip offs

I have never had a prepaid cell phone but I have a two friends who have them and they said they cause a lot of problems and that they prefer to have a cell phone with a contract,and I would definitely prefer one with a contract,especially since right now me and my parents have Altel I am happy with the service we get from them and they are always very helpful when we have a problem with the phones.

I used to have a pre-paid cellphone, but then I went to school out of town, and the long distance calling meant that I had to call too many long distance numbers, and the cards were no longer worthit. Then I did a lot of travelling to and from the USA, and the cards went out the window. I got a new phone with a contract that allowed me to use the phone inexpensively in the USA as well as Canada. When the contract expires in a year, I'm getting an iPhone.

Well, what we have here are both prepaid and postpaid (contract) and I've always preferred prepaid for years. It really depends on how we use the phone. As for me, I don't call or even send text messages a lot. It's really helpful if I just choose a prepaid card worth around $6.70 which is consumable for 2 months. No other fees. It limits my use and most of the time, a few cents will still remain after 2 months. I rarely use my phone, only for important stuff. It's very convenient and saves me a lot of money. Postpaid is convenient (since it's flexible and has a few more perks than prepaid) but it's more costly and there is always the possibility of going over the minutes and be charged extra.

I prefer having a contract phone as it works out cheaper for me as I spend about 150 minutes on the phone a month, mostly mobiles and then I send over 1000 texts a month, so basically if I was to pay for them as I used them then I would cost me. 150 x 30p = £45.00 1000 x 10p = £100.00 This would come to about £145 a month and currently with my contract I am only paying £30 a month, which is a saving of £115. I doubt I would actually be able to afford this every month.

since its not much used i use prepaid card coz contract even we dont use this month but they still deducted.

I think prepaid cell is the way to go-I find it a more convenient appraoch to telecommunication-the idea of contractual phones dont seem so attractivre

I use Tracfone prepaid phone, and I like it really well. I do not text at all, but I do have to be out of town on a regular basis, and I can then call my supervisor, or my husband if I need to. We bought him one also. It is very convenient. I never wanted to be tied down to a contract. Just wish the coverage was better, although I think it has improved.

I have a prepaid cell phone, too. I don't use it very often. It is mostly for emergencies.

I prefer a prepaid phone with this you can budget your calls.

I have a contract. I like it. I haven't had any problems with lost payments. And from what I understand prepaid much more expensive. Saving money now is important now.

We're lucky. We have our cell phone and DSL and land line phone all with our local phone company. We can add or subtract phone lines, services, minutes however we want without penalties. We have no contract at all...and I love it!

Hi, Back when cell phones had just come out, we got a prepaid phone mostly because my credit didn't allow me to get one on contract. The only problem I'd find with that is that I'd forget the month was up and didn't buy more minutes and I'd try to use the phone and it wouldn't work. Of coure that would be the time of the month where money was short so I was without a phone. I now have a phone I pay a monthly fee and have been doing this for probably 6 years. We really don't use that many minutes or text messages and our contract comes up in March, so we may look into prepaid phones then. Happy MyLotting, Char

I prefer pre-paid. It's often a lot cheaper than contracts, since you get exactly what you pay for, nothing less. With a contract, you might pay for x amount of hours, but x will always be greater than the number of hours you actually use the phone. However, with prepaid, you pay for x hours and will use it all. Also, since my phone is usually used for emergency dialing, I definitely wouldn't benefit from a contract. That would just suck my money away when I don't even use the hours.

I use pre-paid phone as It can help us to control the expense.

Prepaid is more hit than contract phone, here in the Philippines. Can you imagine, for less than a quarter, you can already send 10 sms and even make a 10 minute call? That is a lot of savings for the whole day. I started using cell phones in contract but it was very expensive for me, and that was really really expensive to have a phone in the past. Now, I stick with prepaid. KEEP SMILING = NEIL