Pre-paid cell phones
By Undrsiege
@Undrsiege (110)
United States
February 14, 2007 1:34pm CST
I have a pre-paid cell phone from Cingular called a go-phone. It costs $25 for 100 minutes, and $100 for 400 minutes. That's 25 cents per minute(even the short 1 second calls where you pick up at the last minute when the caller hangs up). Do you think if it is worth it to have a pre-paid cell phone instead of a regular cell phone.
4 responses
@chaygylmommy (2470)
• United States
14 Feb 07
I just went thru this dilemma myself. I thought about leaving my monthly plan and going to pre-paid, but it's not worth it. I get 450 daytime and unlimited nights and weekends for $55.00 that is with tax included. I am with Verizon and I like them a lot...never had a problem with them at all.
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@republicson (22)
• United States
4 Mar 07
I work at RadioShack and have a couple different rules I go by to decide between pre-paid and post-paid. If you use less than 200 minutes a month, then I'd always go pre-paid. If you absolutely do not want a contract or a credit check, then definitely go pre-paid. If you talk more than 200 minutes a month (or you think you would if it was cheapter), and you don't mind a contract, then go post-paid.
Some cheaper prepaid options are Virgin Mobile, and Net10 (by Tracfone). Virgin Mobile has good deals on monthly plans, or you can do $7/month + 10 cents/minute. Net10's time is always 10 cents per minute, but the time expires if you don't by a card every 60 days (maybe 90?).
