NAC: prepaid cell phone

[Doug Hill]

I used to work for a wireless phone company we will call A. The biggest 
problem and complaint that the pre paid customers had was renewing minutes. 
The terms required you to purchase more minutes every 45 days in order to 
retain your existing minutes, if you let the time lapse for even an hour you 
would lose all the time you accumulated. Not to mention most prepaid 
carriers will not work in Canada. The prepaid service was primarily designed 
so people with bad credit could get a phone without having to run a credit 
check. Cost is another issue, the prepaid service can be expensive  (.35-.50 
cents per minute). If it for emergencies, any phone TDMA, CDMA or GSM will 
call 911 regardless if service is active.
HTH
Doug



>From: Andrew Buc <AndrewBuc at staxman.net>
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: NAC: prepaid cell phone
>Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:30:33 -0800
>
>I'd like to get a prepaid cell phone, to be used pretty much for
>emergencies and nothing else, so it needs to be fairly inexpensive.
>Since I occasionally travel to Canada, I'd also like it to work in
>both the States and Canada, at least in major cities. Anyone have
>any recommendations? Thank you.
>
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