| Todd Allcock 2007-09-26, 10:33 am |
| At 26 Sep 2007 07:37:57 -0400 vey wrote:
>
> Huh. I guess my phone is wrong when it tells me how much I was
> charged. It keeps saying .20, but I guess you know better than I do.
Nope, you're right- I hadn't checked the SO brocures in awhile.
> Throws the rest of your calculations off.
Yep. Now you can get as few as 45 minutes a year on a $25 card, not
36. Sorry.
> On a monthly basis, Speakout is a little cheaper than Page Plus.
> http://www.cellguru.net/prepaid_compare.htm
> I hardly ever use it, so it works for me.
> The months I don't use it, I don't pay the monthly fee.
Which is good. For your low usage, ARN (the American Roaming Network)
might work out as well. You can't take incoming calls, but there
are no fees (or prepaid card purchases, expirations, etc.) of any kind,
just a very high per minute charge billed to your credit/debit card
when you place a call.
> Plus, you left out the $5 activation Page Plus fee.
UM, I was comparing to T-Mo. I left the PagePlus math vague.
> Plus you don't seem to know that the Speakout phone come with $5 on
> it when purchased.
Yes, I know, But the initial $5 doesn't last a year. 120 days, IIRC.)
> That means, as I said, open the box, make a call. Also makes them
> a high theft target.
>
> I go to pretty remote parts of the state and I haven't had any
> trouble.
You obviously don't live in Colorado. ;-)
> In fact, the only people I've heard complaining are Sprint
> customers.
Ironically, Speakout also sells Spring based service as well (the
phone with the "walkie-talkie" built-in uses Sprint instead of AT&T.)
Again, whatver works for you.
Each prepaid service has pluses and minuses. The ONLY thing Speakout
has going for it is the yearly expiration, which is convenient.
Unfortunately their national coverage and per minute rate are very
weak.
--
"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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