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Prepaid cell phones
On Jul 5, 9:48*am, HK wrote:
Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:24:02 -0400, John H. wrote: I'm thinking of getting out of the contract cell phone plan and getting a prepaid plan. T-Mobile, for example, sells 1000 minutes for $100 and they're good for a year. Does anyone here have a prepaid mobile phone? If so, with whom and how do you like it? I've had the that T-Mobile deal for about 3 years. If you do the $100 right off, after a year you can buy any amount to renew for another year. *Gold member or something like that. Last year I think I bought a $40 refill because we still had about 800 minutes left. I still don't know any service that's cheaper for "light" use. But.......any phone is worthless if there's no coverage. From Chicago to Florida - which is where we use it, it's been perfect. So check coverage first. I've heard coverage maps aren't always indicative of "good" coverage, so it would be best to actually find somebody who uses it your area and get the straight skinny. We bought here in Chicago with local use in mind, but it's worked out for out trips too. *Dumb luck. --Vic You used only 200 minutes over an entire year? Crikey. We go through about 700 minutes a month...of course there are four of us on the family plan, one is a teenager still in high school and another is a college student. They talk a lot, but they IM even more. Thank goodness IM's are free. Even better, *I* don't IM. At all. Hate it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You shouldn't allow a teenager to use a cell phone. It's very dangerous and borders on child abuse. If they are yacking on a cell phone, then they aren't paying attention and could get hit by a car or worse. |
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Prepaid cell phones
On Jul 5, 10:32*am, wrote:
On Jul 5, 9:48*am, HK wrote: Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:24:02 -0400, John H. wrote: I'm thinking of getting out of the contract cell phone plan and getting a prepaid plan. T-Mobile, for example, sells 1000 minutes for $100 and they're good for a year. Does anyone here have a prepaid mobile phone? If so, with whom and how do you like it? I've had the that T-Mobile deal for about 3 years. If you do the $100 right off, after a year you can buy any amount to renew for another year. *Gold member or something like that. Last year I think I bought a $40 refill because we still had about 800 minutes left. I still don't know any service that's cheaper for "light" use. But.......any phone is worthless if there's no coverage. From Chicago to Florida - which is where we use it, it's been perfect.. So check coverage first. I've heard coverage maps aren't always indicative of "good" coverage, so it would be best to actually find somebody who uses it your area and get the straight skinny. We bought here in Chicago with local use in mind, but it's worked out for out trips too. *Dumb luck. --Vic You used only 200 minutes over an entire year? Crikey. We go through about 700 minutes a month...of course there are four of us on the family plan, one is a teenager still in high school and another is a college student. They talk a lot, but they IM even more. Thank goodness IM's are free. Even better, *I* don't IM. At all. Hate it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You shouldn't allow a teenager to use a cell phone. It's very dangerous and borders on child abuse. If they are yacking on a cell phone, then they aren't paying attention and could get hit by a car or worse.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - These kids and cell phones.. My kid could text with her hand in her pocket I hate it when they are talking to you, and texting a friend at the same time. But then again, I don't go bull****, it's progress. My other daughter googles everything we talk about, real time. The day the Mouse crashed and I was in the front yard gearing up, she phoned me... "dad I crashed"... amazing... I talk to my 91yo dad about that stuff all the time. He is not a typical old man though, he loves and embraced technology.. He really wants to take a couple of laps on a dirtbike. If he thought he could do it without dieing, he would. He watches the big boys and girls doing doubles and says "I could have done that".. Anyone who knows him would agree. He was the strongest and most agile "pound for pound" person I have ever known. .He was a monster, unloading freight cars for Finast until he was in his mid 70's 100 pound bags of flower all day long.. He could have been a great rider and he knows it. But he still comes to the track any day it's not going to top 90 degrees... Loves the dust, the kids, the machines.. One impressive old man... |
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Prepaid cell phones
On Jul 5, 10:55*am, wrote:
On Jul 5, 10:32*am, wrote: On Jul 5, 9:48*am, HK wrote: Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:24:02 -0400, John H. wrote: I'm thinking of getting out of the contract cell phone plan and getting a prepaid plan. T-Mobile, for example, sells 1000 minutes for $100 and they're good for a year. Does anyone here have a prepaid mobile phone? If so, with whom and how do you like it? I've had the that T-Mobile deal for about 3 years. If you do the $100 right off, after a year you can buy any amount to renew for another year. *Gold member or something like that. Last year I think I bought a $40 refill because we still had about 800 minutes left. I still don't know any service that's cheaper for "light" use. But.......any phone is worthless if there's no coverage. From Chicago to Florida - which is where we use it, it's been perfect. So check coverage first. I've heard coverage maps aren't always indicative of "good" coverage, so it would be best to actually find somebody who uses it your area and get the straight skinny. We bought here in Chicago with local use in mind, but it's worked out for out trips too. *Dumb luck. --Vic You used only 200 minutes over an entire year? Crikey. We go through about 700 minutes a month...of course there are four of us on the family plan, one is a teenager still in high school and another is a college student. They talk a lot, but they IM even more. Thank goodness IM's are free. Even better, *I* don't IM. At all. Hate it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You shouldn't allow a teenager to use a cell phone. It's very dangerous and borders on child abuse. If they are yacking on a cell phone, then they aren't paying attention and could get hit by a car or worse.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - These kids and cell phones.. My kid could text with her hand in her pocket I hate it when they are talking to you, and texting a friend at the same time. But then again, I don't go bull****, it's progress. My other daughter googles everything we talk about, real time. The day the Mouse crashed and I was in the front yard gearing up, she phoned me... "dad I crashed"... amazing... I talk to my 91yo dad about that stuff all the time. He is not a typical old man though, he loves and embraced technology.. He really wants to take a couple of laps on a dirtbike. If he thought he could do it without dieing, he would. He watches the big boys and girls doing doubles and says "I could have done that".. Anyone who knows him would agree. He was the strongest and most agile "pound for pound" person I have ever known. .He was a monster, unloading freight cars for Finast until he was in his mid 70's * 100 pound bags of flower all day long.. He could have been a great rider and he knows it. But he still comes to the track any day it's not going to top 90 degrees... Loves the dust, the kids, the machines.. One impressive old man...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Same with my uncle, who raised us and raised us right! We always had motorcycles and snowmobiles starting with my Lil' Indian mini bike! We just grew up knowing how to work on stuff, and if it broke we fixed it. We had "field cars" just old junk that he'd let us fix and get running and use them in the potato fields, that was a blast! |
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Prepaid cell phones
On Jul 5, 11:20*am, wrote:
On Jul 5, 10:55*am, wrote: On Jul 5, 10:32*am, wrote: On Jul 5, 9:48*am, HK wrote: Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:24:02 -0400, John H. wrote: I'm thinking of getting out of the contract cell phone plan and getting a prepaid plan. T-Mobile, for example, sells 1000 minutes for $100 and they're good for a year. Does anyone here have a prepaid mobile phone? If so, with whom and how do you like it? I've had the that T-Mobile deal for about 3 years. If you do the $100 right off, after a year you can buy any amount to renew for another year. *Gold member or something like that. Last year I think I bought a $40 refill because we still had about 800 minutes left. I still don't know any service that's cheaper for "light" use. But.......any phone is worthless if there's no coverage. From Chicago to Florida - which is where we use it, it's been perfect. So check coverage first. I've heard coverage maps aren't always indicative of "good" coverage, so it would be best to actually find somebody who uses it your area and get the straight skinny. We bought here in Chicago with local use in mind, but it's worked out for out trips too. *Dumb luck. --Vic You used only 200 minutes over an entire year? Crikey. We go through about 700 minutes a month...of course there are four of us on the family plan, one is a teenager still in high school and another is a college student. They talk a lot, but they IM even more. Thank goodness IM's are free. Even better, *I* don't IM. At all. Hate it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You shouldn't allow a teenager to use a cell phone. It's very dangerous and borders on child abuse. If they are yacking on a cell phone, then they aren't paying attention and could get hit by a car or worse.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - These kids and cell phones.. My kid could text with her hand in her pocket I hate it when they are talking to you, and texting a friend at the same time. But then again, I don't go bull****, it's progress. My other daughter googles everything we talk about, real time. The day the Mouse crashed and I was in the front yard gearing up, she phoned me... "dad I crashed"... amazing... I talk to my 91yo dad about that stuff all the time. He is not a typical old man though, he loves and embraced technology.. He really wants to take a couple of laps on a dirtbike. If he thought he could do it without dieing, he would. He watches the big boys and girls doing doubles and says "I could have done that".. Anyone who knows him would agree. He was the strongest and most agile "pound for pound" person I have ever known. .He was a monster, unloading freight cars for Finast until he was in his mid 70's * 100 pound bags of flower all day long.. He could have been a great rider and he knows it. But he still comes to the track any day it's not going to top 90 degrees... Loves the dust, the kids, the machines.. One impressive old man...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Same with my uncle, who raised us and raised us right! We always had motorcycles and snowmobiles starting with my Lil' Indian mini bike! We just grew up knowing how to work on stuff, and if it broke we fixed it. We had "field cars" just old junk that he'd let us fix and get running and use them in the potato fields, that was a blast!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I had a bud like that. My parents as great as they were, worked a lot so I pretty much had to pick up most of that stuff on my own.. I never even did a tune up on a car until I was probably 22.. A few years back I helped my bud redo the first car his brothers bought for him when he was 14 out in the fields of Ohio. 68 Cuda. Funny story about painting it. We started in with the DA's and I said, "hey" it's red underneath. He said "I thought so". OK, some more sanding and "hey, theres yellow under that".. Long story short, there were 6 coats of paint on the thing! Seems his brothers had bought it from a local Automotive tech school It had been a practice car for the students !!! |
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