MobilePrincess

June 20, 2006. Well we all know how long it takes Congress to get anything done.

Earl Camembert

If the information is on record no law will keep it private.

NotSmellyPrepaid

Truer words never spoken (at least today, lol!)

chokaay

As I posted HERE, I think T-mo-2-Go is the BEST value (except in a couple exceptions listed below):


Very easy to add minutes, check your account online, check your balance and minutes from your handset, etc. More often than not you're able to purchase Airtime Minute Refill Cards at discounts (most of the time at 8% or more off face value) through online retailers, ebay, or when Target or other B&M stores have specials/sales (not as often). Couple that with using T-mo's rounding formula to your advantage and you might be able to get the cost down to $0.06-$0.08 cents per minute!

T-mo-2-Go is GREAT for people who use it infrequently (no daily charge, minutes last 1 year once you're a Gold Reward Member), or for people who use it often (purchase airtime at $0.10/min or LESS, NO extra fees).

The only downsides I can honestly see about T-mo-2-Go is IF you get NO reception where you're at (then switch prepaid providers to someone who DOES work in your area), OR if most your friends are using Cingular/AT&T and you want to use the Cingular $0.10 Pay-As-You-Go-Plan to get Unlimited M2M on Cingular/AT&T's network (but you'll have to pay a $1 daily usage fee... so this may only be worth it to you IF you use your phone fairly often on days you DO use your phone: $30 for 30 days of Unlimited M2M, not including minutes outside of their network).

:clap3:


EDIT: Forgot to mention that with T-mo-2-Go, once you're a Gold Rewards Member, you can carry over your unused almost-expired minutes for ANOTHER YEAR just by adding at least $10 to your account! I added about 4,000 minutes to my account (much more than I'd ever use off my prepaid in 1 year), and at the end of this year I'll just add a $10 refill card (the smallest denomination they have) and carry my unused minutes through NEXT YEAR! No other prepaid service allows you to do that with $10! :mobile:

EDIT2: Added onto the original post...

Earl Camembert

I have a T-Mobil to go account. $10 for a SIM and $10 service. I activated and got three months of service and of course $10 in my account.

T-Mobil's wap is totally free, no time off the account and no charge for access. It is limited to T-Mobil sites but TracFone charges $4 a month and air time for about the same thing. Sweet.

Edit: I bought an un locked Mote C261 TracFone amd it works great.

Earl Camembert

TracFone has the best prepaid if one wants to use a phone for what a phone is for.

If and this is a big IF, you can get a good signal with T-Mobil and you like interweb more then talking T-Mobil is a better deal.

The big carriers prepaid suck, suck big time.

If I had money like Mr. Gates, that I carried home in crates, I would get Verizon. I would get everything they offer, it works best but you need money like Mr. Gates that you carry home in crates. :bawl:

derekm2008

I have to say that T-Mobile is the cheapest, but they might not have service where you live. In that case, TracFone is more expensive, but it will work pretty much anywhere.