Cingular cell phone service - Re: Seven-11 Speakout Wireless, The Prepaid Service few know about . . .

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Re: Seven-11 Speakout Wireless, The Prepaid Service few know about . . .

karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net

2007-09-26, 7:33 am

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:34:37 -0400, vey <junker@ericvey.com> wrote:

>$1.25 a month
>20 cents a minute
>5 cent text messaging
>Minutes good for 365 days, anything less is a rip-off.
>
>$40 gets you in. Nokia 1600 (which is a sweet little simple phone). No
>need to "activate" the phone. Open the box and start making calls.
>
>Uses the "new" ATT network. No roaming and no roaming charges.
>
>It's a simple as that.
>Eat your heart out SMS. For me, it's the best. If you are talky, get a plan.

Aren't most other prepaids 10 cents a minute?

karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net

2007-09-26, 10:33 am

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:25:17 -0400, vey <junker@ericvey.com> wrote:

> karlkrandall@sbcglob
al.net wrote:
>
>Depends. Usually varies between 7 and 33 cents a minute depending on how
>many minutes you buy at the same time. And if you don't use those
>minutes in a certain amount of time, usually 90 days, you lose them, so
>they can cost much more than that.

So it can be much less than your 20 (or 25 cents a minute), no one in
their right mind should willingly pay more for the Seven thingie
you're hustling.
>
>I find losing minutes intolerable. It's one thing to pay a flat rate and
>not use what is available, but it is quite another to pay in advance for
>a measured service, then lose what you paid in at their whim.

clifto

2007-09-26, 3:33 pm

vey wrote:
> Depends. Usually varies between 7 and 33 cents a minute depending on how
> many minutes you buy at the same time.

I noticed the other day that Wal-Mart has raised the price of the $100
T-Mobile card to something over $98.

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clifto

2007-09-26, 10:33 pm

SMS wrote:
> Actually, with T-Mobile you want to buy a $100 card _before_ they change
> the terms regarding future airtime purchases. One things that the
> carriers have been pretty good about is honoring terms from older plans.
> With postpaid plans they could just tell you that the terms have changed
> after the contract is over, but they usually don't. With T-Mobile, they
> never say that the $100 airtime purchase and "Gold Status" has an
> expiration date for future airtime lasting a year. They're obligated to
> give you the 1 year expiration as long as they're in business.

For those 100 minutes. The next 100 they sell you could come with different
conditions.

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If you really believe carbon dioxide causes global warming,
you should stop exhaling.

Todd Allcock

2007-09-27, 3:33 pm

At 26 Sep 2007 19:04:41 -0500 clifto wrote:

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>
> Cool. When I looked the other night, the cheapest BT phone wally
world

> had was a $99 Samsung.

Just to clarify, that $59 6103 with "free" $25 card is on T-Mo's
website only...

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"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

clifto

2007-09-27, 3:33 pm

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 26 Sep 2007 19:04:41 -0500 clifto wrote:
> available
> world
>
> Just to clarify, that $59 6103 with "free" $25 card is on T-Mo's
> website only...

Thanks. I caught that, my point was only about the $40 savings.

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If you really believe carbon dioxide causes global warming,
you should stop exhaling.

Todd Allcock

2007-09-27, 10:33 pm

At 27 Sep 2007 14:25:46 -0500 clifto wrote:

>
> Thanks. I caught that, my point was only about the $40 savings.

I figured you probably did, but the clarification was also to help
anyone who might be "eavesdropping" on our conversation.

My only other advice would be to move quickly if you're interested.
T-Mo pulls the "free $25 card promo" out from under us without warning.
Then it comes back in a few weeks, but that 6103 dropped to $59 from
$99 awhile ago, and AFAIK, it's discontinued, so who knows if it'll
be around the next time they give the $25 cards away.

Cheers!

--

"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

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