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Verizon Wireless to Expand Prepaid Cell Phone Plans
Posted by admin in verizon prepaid cell phones on December 26, 2008
It’s nothing new that Verizon Wireless is offering prepaid cell phones, because they’ve had them for a while now. But there is a new development on that front in that the company will expand their prepaid options.
There are three plans to choose from.
The Core Plan: You pay $.99 for each day that you use your phone and you have unlimited talk time in your network. Other calls are $.10 a minute. Texts are $.10.
The Plus Plan: You pay $1.99 per day with free night minutes. Text messages are $.10.
The Power Plan: The daily fee is $2.99. Nights and weekends are free. Other calls (excluding your in-network calls) are $.10.
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Choosing a Prepaid Cell Phone Provider
Posted by admin in prepaid cell phones on November 2, 2008
In recent years prepaid cell phones have seen a sharp rise in popularity due to the ever-improving deals companies offer as a means to compete in a crowded cellular service marketplace. Owing to the fact that many people don’t want the commitment that comes with a contract, often individuals choose a pay as you go cell phone plan instead. While pay as you go was once seen as a viable option only for those with bad credit, it has now become a popular choice thanks to the great rates now available.
The most convenient feature of pay as you go services is that you aren’t bound to any contracts. Contracts require you to pay the same amount every month regardless of your usage (unless you go over your usage, in which case you are charged a lot!) and if you decide you no longer want to keep the contract you have to pay high disconnection fees to your provider.
So if a better deal comes along you have no choice but to either keep paying the higher prices of your contract until it expires many months in the future, or pay the high cancellation fees which would essentially counter any benefit of a better deal elsewhere.
As well as being able to change to a different deal at any time without penalty, pay as you go also allows you to buy bulk quantities of minutes at special rates if you so wish. Thus you aren’t constrained to a fixed rate per minute for calls, or charge per text, the cost is flexible allowing you to meet your changing needs. With this in mind it is also clear that you only pay for what you use. On a contract, you pay whether or not you use it.
Some providers provide additional features such as video calls while others don’t, therefore it’s important to do your research before settling for a provider to make sure they meet your needs. In some cases extra charges are also levied for texts or other features, so be wary of this too.
A few other things which might be worth checking are:
• Quality of signal coverage in your area
• Any activation fees
• Roaming charges
With these things in mind you should be able to make a good decision about which provider to use.
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Finding Cheap Prepaid Cell Phones
Posted by admin in cheap prepaid cell phones, prepaid cell phones on October 14, 2008
Prepaid cell phones are a great choice for users who would rather not go through the hassle of setting up a contract as well as the risk of overspending on calls. There are many great prepaid plans becoming available on many wireless networks, attempting to offer all the benefits of postpaid. With so much choice, it can be hard to know whether postpaid or prepaid deals offer the best value for money, and especially difficult to compare these offers on different networks.
Most of the popular cell phone networks are offering both prepaid and post paid plans, so it is worth comparing the costs and bearing in mind the amount of free minutes that come with the plan. For example, the Virgin Mobile pay as you go plan includes roll-forward minutes, meaning that unused minutes from one month can be saved for the next. This is one of the advantages of a postpaid plan, but Virgin conveniently offers it in a prepaid version, and for 200 minutes a month, users can pay $20 on a prepaid plan. Their postpaid equivalent is $24.99 per month for the same amount of minutes. On the surface it may seem like no question as to what the better deal is, but there is more to consider.
There are quite a few factors to consider when finding the cheapest option available to you. First, you must compare the postpaid to the prepaid plans offered by one mobile service, and then you can compare them to other networks to see how good the deal is. When comparing, it will only be valid if you estimate roughly how much you will call and how much you will text. Many prepaid plans include daily access charges, so it is also important to work out how many days of the month you will be using the phone and having to pay these charges.
On the Virgin plans mentioned above, cost will be added to the prepaid plan in the form of text messaging, which comes a lot cheaper with their postpaid plan. So if you like to text a lot, it might be better value to go postpaid. However, their prepaid cell phone plan is unique in the fact that it does not charge daily access fees, which is useful to know when comparing it to networks such as Verizon, for example.
Services such as Verizon will add daily access charges to the cost of plans. So while it may seem cheaper to go with the prepaid cell phone option, postpaid will eliminate these charges, and the cost for users who like to use their phones on most days of the month. The prepaid plans offered by Verizon include less of the benefits of the Virgin Plans, and this is also something to look out for when choosing a plan.
In short, the main benefits of postpaid used to be: included monthly minutes, a set monthly price for those minutes and no daily access charges. If you are looking for the best deal, then look for prepaid plans that replicate these great postpaid benefits, such as the Virgin plans. You may find they can sometimes cost slightly more than their postpaid equivalents, but in many cases the convenience more than makes up for this fact.
Read an article about why you should consider a prepaid cell phone.
