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Jump Mobile Prepaid Cell Phone Plans
Posted by admin in prepaid cell phones on November 30, 2008
Jump Mobile is a wireless service provider targeting the youth audience. However, its low rates are sure to attract a wide base of customers. Jump offers prepaid cell phone service in 22 states.
Plans: The Jump Mobile plans are based on adding dollars to your account, rather than adding a certain number of minutes as with similar prepaid phone services. As you make calls then your money will be deducted as you go along, and the call costs vary according to where you are making your calls from.
Calls made within the local service area are charged at 10 cents a minute, and incoming calls are all free. However, once you leave this local area the call charges will go up to 69 cents a minute – and this is the same both for incoming and outgoing calls.
In the local calling area all text messages are free, whether incoming or outgoing. However, these are charged at 10 cents each (incoming and outgoing) when outside of this local calling area. International text messaging is also offered by Jump from the low price of 10 cents each. Picture messages are currently not available with Jump Mobile prepaid cell phones.
Pros: Jump Mobile users will benefit from the fact that, in their local area, they can receive calls for free and send or receive text messages for free. When making calls in the local area, the outgoing charge is also extremely low and easy to keep track of by the fact it is simply deducted from a dollar balance. It is very clear whether you are making local or roaming calls, which means it is even less likely that you will overspend.
Cons: Once you are outside of your local area then the calls are much more expensive. This will be a downside to anyone who needs to travel often. There is also only a small selection of phones available on the Jump Mobile network. When looking for cell phones on their website, you will find extremely few available. However, they are in different price categories meaning that all budgets should be satisfied.
When purchasing airtime dollars there is also a fast expiration date, depending upon the amount you buy. When you purchase 10 dollars they will expire extremely quickly – after only 7 days – which is quicker than many other prepaid services. However, 20 dollars will expire after 15 days, 30 dollars after 30 days and 50 dollars after 90 days.
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Cricket Prepaid Cell Phone Plans
Posted by admin in prepaid cell phones on November 25, 2008
The Cricket cell phone provider is a subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, based in Dallas, Texas. It is gaining in popularity for the variety of cell phone plans the company offers, which include great features as well as modern phone options. Cricket prepaid cell phones may be a great option for you.
Plans: There are a variety of plans offered by the Cricket service, which all include unlimited anytime minutes and unlimited sending and receiving of text messages. The $30 plan is for local usage only, meaning that the phone will not work while roaming and it does not include any long distance calling.
For $40, unlimited long distance calls are added to the above option, where roaming minutes are charged separately at 39 cents per minute. The $45 plan includes all of these features but with an expanded home calling area that include all of the Cricket networks across the country. A separate plan at $45 per month includes unlimited Web access but without the roaming calls.
The $50 plan includes all of these unlimited calling features plus unlimited mobile Web access as well as unlimited directory assistance. The top plan, the Cricket Nation 200 plan, is charged at $60 a month and includes 200 roaming minutes.
Pros: The great thing about Cricket plans is that it is easy to understand where and in which instances all calls are unlimited. This means it is difficult to find yourself overspending, and there is no contract and therefore no commitment to stick to your plan.
Phones sold by Cricket start at just $49.99 and all include color screens. However, some phones are only available online and some others are only available through retailers.
Cons: Cricket does have quite a limited coverage, where it serves only 21 states. Even within these 21 states, coverage is limited in certain areas. There is also an activation fee required, and their plans do not include the standard calling features than many other cell phone plan providers now include as standard.
There is an additional fee for features such as caller ID, call waiting and voicemail on the cheapest plan but they are included on all other plans. There is also an activation fee of $15 for all of the Cricket plans, which is reasonably high. Cricket may have just the right prepaid cell phone for you. But if you’re still not convinced, read on and find the right plan for you.
Locus Prepaid Cell Phones
Posted by admin in prepaid cell phones on November 24, 2008
Locus Telecommunications is one of the largest providers of prepaid cell phones, with over a thousand activations a day for their popular prepaid plans.
Plans:
There are a variety of Locus plans to match customer needs, starting with the Locus Mobile GSM plan. This includes calls at 15 cents per minute for the first five minutes of the day, after which they drop down to 9 cents per minute for the rest of the day.
The O2 Wireless GSM plan includes minutes at 14 cents a minute. The CallPlus Wireless GSM plan provides calls as 10 cents per minute, though this includes a 25 cent access fee every day. The POP CallPlus Wireless GSM plan includes minutes at 9 cents or 14 cents depending on how much airtime is purchased at the time.
There are also two CDMA plans offered on the Locus network. The first plan, Viva Prepaid Wireless, charges calls at 18 cents per minute on the weekdays and 9 cents per minute in the evenings and weekends. The Locus Platinum Plan is charged at 15 cents per minute.
Pros: All of the Locus prepaid plans include free long distance class within the 48 states. Calls to 50 pre-selected countries are also included making Locus a very well-priced option for those who regularly makes calls from their cell phone outside the US.
Locus phones make it easy to load minutes and check account balances, and you do not even need to purchase one of their own phones to use the service. If you have a phone already you can get it activated to work with their service (it must be GSM compatible, however).
Cons: There are many plans offered by Lotus, though what they do offer can become confusing especially since no straightforward plan comparison is offered. Some plans may be better value than others, but this is hard to work out when there is sometimes a different cost for the first five minutes of talk time than for the rest of the day.
Their per minute charges are still a little high, and the service does not include downloadables. Any directory assistance is extremely high. Your plan will also be deactivated if you do not load a balance for 30 days, and you will have to pay a fee to get it reactivated. This is a very limited time span compared to other cell phone services.
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