Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 11:31:49 -0500
Reply-To: mcneely4@COX.NET
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: cell phones (wasHarpies I)
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At risk of the list police cracking down, I'll mention that I use T-Mobile for prepaid cell phone service. I paid $100 initially, four years ago, for each of two phones. I have paid $10 a year per phone since, and have never even come close to running out of minutes. The $100 bucks bought 1000 minutes. I still have around 500 minutes on one phone, and around 750 on the other. I will keep up with this so long as it continues to work and be cheaper than alternatives. I don't know what the buy up of T-Mobile by AT&T will do to this service. No good, I suspect, because AT&T does not do anything good.
I always carry one of these phones with me in the Vanagon, whether I am making a short local trip for service, I am on the road, or I am going camping. Of course, with T-Mobile, like with all service providers, there are places that my Vanagon takes me that the service does not reach. Though I am resistant to new technology just for the sake of it, I definitely have come on board regarding the cell phone as an emergency and convenience tool, just not the cell phone contracts and service generally available. I also find no reason to just use the thing to gab all the time.
mcneely
---- Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> At 7/5/2011 03:20 AM, ed donnen wrote:
>
> > You continue west on 66 hoping to be pulled over by an officer
> > (You don't have a cell phone).
>
> A cell phone in the glove box would have helped a lot. Less than
> $100 a year to keep one 'active' in your glovebox & these phones &
> cards are sold all over the palace.
> http://www.virginmobileusa.com/ The normal way to keep the phone is
> $20 every 90 days (4 times a year). They have an option where if you
> put $92 on your phone you get the number for a full year and $92
> worth of calling at 20 cents a minute.
> This operates off the Sprint network. I've been with them for several
> years, still a good deal for what you get
>
>
>
>
> Rob
>
> becida@comcast.net
> Western Washington State, USA
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David McNeely
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