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Verizon Prepaid Cell Phones Review
Posted by admin in prepaid cell phones on August 25, 2008
Verizon presents itself as the most reliable network of the country and provides a wide range of prices and features, including new prepaid services. Now, Verizon offers prepaid cell phone plans.
All of their phones come with color screens and most of them include modern features including cameras, Bluetooth, etc. and by spending an initial $15 on your pay as you go account you are eligible for the same sort of phone subsidy as you would receive on a one year contract.
Verizon also provides many different downloadable items including ringtones, music, wallpaper, email, GPS navigator, games and more. Prices vary according to the plan and phone.
Plans
Verizon offers three pay as you go plans. The first, INpulse Core, charges 10 cents per minute and a 99 cent access charge each day that the phone is used. INpulse Plus offers calls at 5 cents per minute and a $1.99 daily access charge.
It also comes with unlimited nigh-time minutes (starting at 9 p.m.) and 5 cents per weekend minute. The INpulse Power plan offers 2 cents per minute calls with an access fee of $2.99 daily, coming with unlimited nights and weekends. All plans come with unlimited free call to other Verizon customers.
The Verizon Wireless EasyPay plan could be a much better choice than paying per minute on the INpulse plan, as it offers a number of minutes, nigh-time and weekend calls for the set price.
Text messaging with the INpulse Core plan will cost you 10 cents per message, whereas INpulse Plus charges 5 cents and INpulse Power charges just 2 cents per message. With the EasyPay plan text messages will cost you 10 cents to send and receive.
International messaging is also available costing 25 cents per message sent and 10 cents for each one received. Picture messaging is 25 cents to both send and receive.
Pros and Cons for Verizon Prepaid Cell Phones
Pros: Their options are a simple choice for prepaid calls that come with many features. There is also a great choice of phones for each plan you might choose. International calling is available and no extra costs are charged for calls to Puerto Rico.
Their plans also do not charge the access fee unless you use your phone (which includes sending and receiving calls).
Cons: The access charges can become quite expensive when you use your phone, and you could be paying almost $30 every month to use your phone with the INpulse Core cell phone plan if you need to make or receive calls every day.
Read more articles about prepaid cell phones. Read a review of Cingular prepaid cell phone options.
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Cingular Prepaid Cell Phones
Posted by admin in prepaid cell phones on August 25, 2008
Cingular is one of the biggest traditional service providers to start offering prepaid cell phone services. There are a large number of phones on offer that start at $19.99, which all have color screens; camera phones are also available.
Plans
Cingular offers a Pay As You Go plan as well as specific prepaid plans that allow you to pick the options you want. Their ‘Best Value’ option will allow you to make unlimited mobile calls at anytime for 10 cents per minute, which includes free calls to other mobiles.
Each day you use their phone there is a 1 dollar daily access fee, and you are also able to purchase an additional 3,000 off-peak minutes for $20. Their ‘Simple Value’ option gives you calls to mobiles and anytime minutes for 25 cents per minute.
If you choose ‘Pick Your Plan’ then there are four options for you, starting at $29.99 per month (which includes 200 minutes) up to $69.99 a month (including 650 minutes).
The top two plans also include unlimited nights and weekends, with the $69.99 plan giving you unlimited mobile to mobile minutes on top of everything else. These plans also including different choices for web access, starting at $5 and going up to $20 per month.
The Pay As You Go mobile web access is at the standard rate of 1 cent per KB. You can also choose from a number of text messaging plans starting at $5 for 200 messages a month up to $20 for 3,000.
Otherwise Pick Your Plan messages will cost 15 cents per message sent or received, and Pay As You Go costs 5 cents each per message sent and received.
The Good and the Bad about Cingular Prepaid Cell Phones
Pros: The Pay As You Go plan offers the benefits of adding money to your account and it being deducted as you use the phone, which means you won’t go over what you can afford and there is no credit check and no contract.
Their customer service is easy to reach through email or by phone. There is good coverage on any Cingular plan, as well as free roaming and nationwide long distance calls all at the same cost.
Cons: You are charged for incoming text messages, and if you don’t sign up to their special international plan then international calls can become very expensive. If your payment is late then your account will be deactivated by the 34th day.
Read more information on prepaid cell phones.
Reasons to Consider a Prepaid Cell Phone
Posted by admin in cell phones, prepaid cell phones on August 20, 2008
In the United States, it is the norm to sign up with a cell phone company, maybe receive a discounted phone, and pay a standard monthly fee plus other taxes, mysterious fees, and overage minutes.
The two-year contract thing is pretty much the norm in the States as well. Many people are starting to see the value of the pay as you go method and opt for prepaid cell phones.
One big reason people are starting to look in the direction of a pay as you go mobile phone plan is there is no commitment and no contract. Did you hear that? No contract.
That means no $200 payment to get out of your contract. No hassling to change your monthly payment. The feeling of freedom and the disgust many people have for their cell phone providers encourages people to go this different route.
Other people may want to purchase a prepaid cell phone because they have credit problems and cannot sign a contract with companies like Verizon or AT&T. There are no contracts with many of the pay as you go mobile companies, so this situation can be avoided.
Many people like the fact that they don’t have to pay for minutes they don’t use in a month. Say you use two hundred minutes one month, and one thousand the next. For each month, on a prepaid plan, you will pay the same price for each minute used. The price doesn’t change as you hit or surpass certain minute limits.
In Europe, the prepaid model is very popular. It’s also getting more and more utilized in the U.S. as people start to see that they don’t have to be contractually bound to a company in order to talk on a cell phone.
The best thing to do is look at your situation and see if you use all the minutes for which you pay. Look at your bills for the past few months (you may be able to do this online). Do you fall far under your minutes one month and go way over your limitations some other months?
If you do, you may want to look at a few prepaid cell phones and get a little more freedom and flexibility. Do what works for you. Don’t just sign a contract–no matter how fancy that brand new phone they dangle in your face may look. Going with a prepaid cell phone service might just be the option you’re looking for.
Read about tracfone prepaid cell phone options. Also, read more reviews of prepaid plans from all carriers to compare and contrast.
Update:
You may be interested in reading about some of the big name prepaid plans that are out right now. Some companies you may want to check out are Straight Talk, TracFone, and Boost Mobile.
Straight Talk wireless and Boost Mobile are notable because they both have unlimited plans that are heating up the market.
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