Cellular phones topics - Temporary Cellphones ???

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Temporary Cellphones ???

holsteinfarm68@nojunk.com

2005-11-09, 2:48 am

I do not want to own a permanent cellphone. I rarely use the home
phone, but need it for dialup internet service.
I do not want another monthly bill to pay either.

However, I am a farmer, and a few weeks out of the year I have to
travel for personal business. In the meantime I have to rely on paid
workers to run the farm. The workers are good, but in an emergency
they often do not know what to do. In the past I was lucky and there
were no emergencies. However, last month I came back to the farm to
find a serious problem plus 2 dead animals. If the workers could have
contacted me, this would not have occurred, because I could have
explained to them what to do, and/or would have returned early.

I have been told that there is some sort of cellphone that is either
rented or purchased, and the person just gets a certain amount of
time, but can buy more time (somehow).

Can anyone please explain this and how to do it.

I DO NOT want anything that requires a credit card. I do not use
them.

I'd also prefer something intended for emergency use that does not
expire. I have heard that some prepaid cellphone expire l.ike those
long distance phone cards. With my lack of luck, the dang thing will
never be used and when there is an emergency, it will be expired.
Don't they make something specifically for emergency use? I dont care
if it costs more per minute, I'll probably use an hour in a year at
most, and it's mostly for incoming calls if there is a problem. I can
always make outgoing calls on a payphone with a calling card.

I should note that I am an old fart and know nothing about cellphones.
Aside from this computer I am not into modern technology, and prefer
doing things the old way.

Joe

Patrick Casher

2005-11-09, 5:48 pm

Joe,

Checkout the thread on "beyond wireless opinions". Here's the links to
beyond wireless; http://www.gobeyondwireless.com and T-Mobile;
http://www.tmobile.com .

Patrick
< holsteinfarm68@nojun
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>I do not want to own a permanent cellphone. I rarely use the home
> phone, but need it for dialup internet service.
> I do not want another monthly bill to pay either.
>
> However, I am a farmer, and a few weeks out of the year I have to
> travel for personal business. In the meantime I have to rely on paid
> workers to run the farm. The workers are good, but in an emergency
> they often do not know what to do. In the past I was lucky and there
> were no emergencies. However, last month I came back to the farm to
> find a serious problem plus 2 dead animals. If the workers could have
> contacted me, this would not have occurred, because I could have
> explained to them what to do, and/or would have returned early.
>
> I have been told that there is some sort of cellphone that is either
> rented or purchased, and the person just gets a certain amount of
> time, but can buy more time (somehow).
>
> Can anyone please explain this and how to do it.
>
> I DO NOT want anything that requires a credit card. I do not use
> them.
>
> I'd also prefer something intended for emergency use that does not
> expire. I have heard that some prepaid cellphone expire l.ike those
> long distance phone cards. With my lack of luck, the dang thing will
> never be used and when there is an emergency, it will be expired.
> Don't they make something specifically for emergency use? I dont care
> if it costs more per minute, I'll probably use an hour in a year at
> most, and it's mostly for incoming calls if there is a problem. I can
> always make outgoing calls on a payphone with a calling card.
>
> I should note that I am an old fart and know nothing about cellphones.
> Aside from this computer I am not into modern technology, and prefer
> doing things the old way.
>
> Joe

Patrick Casher

2005-11-09, 5:48 pm

Joe,

You can buy phones and phone cards at Wal-Mart. Maybe call provider and ask
if you can reactivate phone, once you have one, with just say a $10 phone
card whenever you travel, or is there a charge for activation.

Patrick

"Patrick Casher" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Joe,
>
> Checkout the thread on "beyond wireless opinions". Here's the links to
> beyond wireless; http://www.gobeyondwireless.com and T-Mobile;
> http://www.tmobile.com .
>
> Patrick
> < holsteinfarm68@nojun
k.com> wrote in message
> news:aq03n19n7vvqe6u
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>
>

Joseph

2005-11-09, 5:48 pm

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:23:18 -0600, holsteinfarm68@nojun
k.com wrote:

>I have been told that there is some sort of cellphone that is either
>rented or purchased, and the person just gets a certain amount of
>time, but can buy more time (somehow).

Well, to my knowledge there's nothing available that you are not
required to do *something* whether that's making a call to keep the
account active or adding time periodically. There are several prepaid
offerings that have a year's expiration but you do need to add new
time before the year is up or the account gets deactivated. If you
did get such a phone and account you'd have to set yourself a reminder
(like a calendar date) and remind yourself that your one year
anniversary was approaching and that you needed to attend to your
account. I know of no account that never expires. There's Beyond
Wireless which will never expire as long as you make a call before the
end of every 60 days, but that takes planning. I have two such
accounts and on the first of each month I make the minimum one minute
call to keep each account active. As I said there's no account that
doesn't require at least some action either to make a call or to add
new minutes periodically.
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