Comments on: Pre-paid phone in us

Question: Pre-paid phone in us

radsqd — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:48:36 -0800

Pre-paid phone in us

Iam with verizon wireless and absolutely tired of paying $40/month for 450 minutes , no text when I rarely go above 200 minutes

Simply I want maybe 200 minutes with 200 txt included for less than $25/month. This is prolly better with a prepaid phone.
Give me your reviews on virgin mobile, at&t pay as you go service
does virgin charge for roaming?

Bonus: If the phone can be used as an mp3 player with a sd card slot

By: pupdog

pupdog — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:04:38 -0800

I've had Virgin Mobilr for over a year, and feel pretty good recommending them. As far as I know, they don't currently have any phones like you're looking for but most of their phones are intended to be low-cost. Right now a pay-as-you-go account could have 200 minutes and 200 texts for $25. There's no roaming, VM works on the Sprint network. If there's coverage, it's the same rate everywhere.

By: jamaro

jamaro — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:43:38 -0800

A recent previous question which might help. I've had VM for several years w/o complaint.

By: Chrishartley

Chrishartley — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:38:03 -0800

Also here previously. I would suggest looking through PhoneScoop or some other database of phones, search for the features you want, then investigate that carrier's pre-paid plan or an MNVO that uses their network. Howard Forums is a great resource to learn more about the various options. The short answer is there is no perfect solution, and most of the companies are deceitful.

By: Orb2069

Orb2069 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:24:00 -0800

The $25/mo lets out most of the plans that have $1/day charges for usage. There are some interesting ones there.

Last I looked, the best deal I found was $.10/min, $.10/txt from T-mobile, with a $100 purchase*. (Which would be 125 min, 125 txts for $25/mo. however you want to split them, per month.)
(* But only if you buy them all on one $100 card - The smaller cards cost more per min. This also makes you a 'Gold rewards' memeber or something, and your minutes won't expire for a full year.)

By: azpenguin

azpenguin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:02:23 -0800

Page Plus might be close to what you're after. Bonus - they are a reseller for Verizon, so you can use a Verizon phone on it. A $25 card gets you 9 cents a minute. (A text is one minute worth of time.) So you can get 300 minutes or texts for $25. The $80 card gets you 1400 minutes IIRC. Go to www.pagepluscellular.com for more info. When you activate they give you 100 free minutes to start. Alternatively, you can ask them if there are any local dealers for Page Plus, but you'll pay an activation charge if you go to a delaer.