Posted: 5/25/2008 7:30:11 PM EDT
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I've had verizon since I've had a real cellular phone. In the past few years, it seems pre-paid and similar have come quite a way. I need a cellular phone. I need to keep my number. That is the hard and fast. I request your suggestions. Currently pay $40-42/month for a phone I use less than 2 hours/month. It is over two years old, does not have bluetooth, cannot scramble eggs, play music, etc. I have no contractual obligations at this point. Where ought I go? I would just get a cheap, disposable pre-paid phone, but it seems I won't be able to retain my number, which all my old associates from the past several years have. This, that, the other thing? Thanks for your insight. -Ben |
| My In-Laws have AT&T "Go Phone" prepaid wireless. They bought the phone for under $40 and pay $40 - $45 a month for 300 anytime minutes and 500 night/weekend minutes. Any calls to other AT&T mobile numbers are free. (they call us the most). The nice thing is the unused minutes roll-over to the mext month. I think the cheapeast plan is like $30 a month. There is no contract. |
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I just switched from verizon to t-mobile to-go phone. Office depot has phones+sim cards for $30...or you can use any old GSM phone and buy a sim card for $5 at a tmobile store. Works great. You can buy a 1000min card that lasts a year for a $100. You can port you lod number over too. Just ask verizon to release the number when you cancel their service. then when you activate your t-mobile account you tell them that you want to port you old number over. |
Have your tmob dealer start a porting request BEFORE you cancel Verizon; number has to be active to be portable. Verizon will want your account number, if you have a postpaid plan, before the number can be ported. Moving the number to tmob will cancel the Verizon account. email me if you need more info  -hanko |