"Minimum balance in cell phone"

Don't call them back and I am sure they will stop doing that thing. I don't have the habit of maintaining balance load with my handset and my friends knows it as well. So, in times of emergency- they just called me to make sure that I've received any urgent message. I don't text a lot or reply to every text messages unless it's very important. I know it's really annoying when we receive unimportant calls and we are busy with our works.

I have a 50 cent min. balance in mine. This allows me to make and recv. calls from 3 numbers for free. If you go under 50 cent they arent free. So I always leave this 5o cents to 75 cent son the phone at all times.

prashu it depends on relationship. if the friend is a good person who give useful suggestions or talks in a pleasing way then we may call two or three times and the next time make him/her call us. Or if we really know the friend is poor and he cannot recharge then we can call ourselves. you are the better judge. one reason can be your friend may not be employed.

We people are allowed to give miscall till the balance turns zero. Now most of the plans are down to second billing. So a person can give a call even till even he has a balance of 0.1Rs , which is not sufficient to make a call but great enough to give a miss. There is no one who just used to give me miss calls. My friends or other ones just used to text me or just used to call me even if they need to share anything with me and I just sued to do the same.

Thanks a ton for posting this discussion. Yes u are right, i always feel that there are certain people around us who deliberately keep low cell phone balance so that they never get to call others and this is very cheap behavior. Whenever my phone balance reaches a minimum low balance i make it a point to recharge it to a value that will help to get connected to others. What say?

Good topic. I really get irritated If somebody gives missed call. I'l Just call them back and tell them I am not going to call back next time If you give a missed call and cut the call. Do not talk more. Believe me, You will get a call back in minutes. As like everybody, I hate such kind of behavior. Yeah, some people are really shameless, don't know what they can save by giving missed calls.

I don't believe and would want your friends to be shameless when they are probably caught in a situation. Prepaid subscribers will always face this minimum balance dilemma as everything is literally chargeable. Anyway, it is really your call as to what and how you would like to go about doing this. The way I see this, would have to either continue accepting your friends' shortcomings or stop calling them back so that they will go about "changing" their ways. Who knows, they might even consider doing away with their prepaid plan and go for the postpaid ones to support their heavy usage. For me, my mobile providers price plans includes free data usage where we will use the messenger chat services to communicate with one another when we do not feel like calling the other party. On one hand, it is cost saving and on the other, considerate when we just might be interrupting when the matter does not need an immediate attention.

Hi with me. I have unlimited. Every thing So I do not have a problem any more It make it a.lot easyer OK have good day

what i can only say is that, don't call them. they just give missed calls, so probably what they're going to say is really not that important enough. the reason why they keep on doing that is that you always call them back. why don't you let them call you, for a change. or maybe they could just send you a text message instead.

When I was in prepaid before, I always make sure that I have enough maintaining balance in my cellphone so I dont get disconnect every time I need to use my phone. I always wanted to have balance to avoid just pissed of when I need it.

Better resend a missed call to them. It will teach them not to send any missed call to you.lol

Hi friend, sad to hear about this, i am not in this sort. Always call my friends and clients. As i am doing own business, so i am in need to call a lot of clients for my business persons. Always i maintain a minimum balance of 200 rupees in my cell. Most of my clients give missed call to me, if they need my service and i will call them to know about the details. It is really hard to change this kind of Missed call persons mentality. If the friend is very important to you, then call him, otherwise ignore the missed call

Simple way to avoid it.I did it too. But a simple problem arises, your friends will not be good with u as before. next time they send you a missed call dont call them. when u meet him tell that u had no enough credit. do this next time and the next. your friend will never do that again.

Instead calling them you just leave them text message,if you have free messages daily.Or You start giving missed call to them.

I know a few people who do exactly the same, and I simply accept it and return the call. I have one friend who never uses his mobile to make a call, but instead sends a text asking me to call him. I do not have a problem with low credit because my mobile is on contract and therefore will not run out, but I can sympathise with those who cannot afford to do that. If you wish to stop this from happening then try sending a text message back saying "Sorry, no credit left" and they will eventually realise that if they do not telephone you then they will not manage to talk to you.

Hi there prashu, yes when i still had my prepaid account i always see to it that i do not run out of cellular phone balance so i can be sure that i am able to send a message to someone. it is hard when you are trapped in the middle of something and is unable to send a message especially if it is important that you do. I find it rather unbelievable that some people can live with out a peso or two in their account.. i feel its kinda weird for them to just wait around for people to call them, and expect this all the time... I don't know how this can be avoided when it comes to other people. i usually just kid my friend and give her hints that she should probably load her phone and not expect a call all the time.. she has always gotten used to just being called at. so when people stopped calling, she started loading! =)

I got a few dollars in my cell phone, however it has already expired, here in my country we buy RM10 for 1 week usage, after 1 week if you have not used up the balance, it will be carried out to the next time you reload your phone. I seldom call back my friends, I missed call them. Like you said, it is irritating to call every missed call we see.

I used to keep a minimum balance on my phone when I had a pay as you go telephone. I always had some credit on my phone so I could call home in an emergency. I don't really need to now as I have a contract phone.I have quite a few minutes and texts to use every month more than I have ever needed to use.Though even if I did use all my calls and texts for that month I still can use some my phone and the cost of any calls and texts will be added to my monthly bill. So as long as I have got my phone on me I can always make a phone call.

I always maintain a minimum balance. I never leave miss calls. It seems so cheap. If I totally run out of balance I'll rely on my message balance, but avoid giving miss calls. I recharge with a Rs.100 or Rs.200 each time my balance is reduced to Rs.20. That way I make it sure that if I'm in a trouble at any point of time, I can atleast call and get help. Miss calls are bad habits, if your friends are mature enough then they should understand the fact and mend their ways. What you can do is, each time you receive a miss call, SMS the friend and ask what's the matter. If you keep doing this, soon they'll be discouraged from leaving miss calls. Good day!

just simple my dear.... you also give missed call like your friends, then yours friends give correct response to you...