Posted: 9/8/2014 8:12:19 PM EDT
| Hi, I am looking for a new phone plan. I have decided I don't need data and I also don't need many calling minutes ( I probably use less than 100 per month). The biggest thing I need is a couple hundred texts per month. What do you guys think is my cheapest option? $40 a month seems ridiculous to me and that is more or less what the major carriers offer. |
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I am wondering if prepaid is the way to go. Some of them charge 20 cents per text and 25 per minute, which would add up really fast. Quoted:
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Probably easier to just go pre-paid. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I am wondering if prepaid is the way to go. Some of them charge 20 cents per text and 25 per minute, which would add up really fast. True. I didnt think of that. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Trouble with Republic and Ting is that they are both based on the Sprint Network, which can be troubling. Page Plus uses the native Verizon network, which covers most of Idaho, although there are a few very large areas where they have no coverage at all. Are you sure Page Plus doesn't offer coverage, and it isn't that they don't have a dealer in the area? If they just don't have a dealer that really isn't a problem, I used Page Plus for years and never once stepped into a dealers store. I did everything I needed online. |
| After looking at the options again, page plus does seem to be the front runner. I was put off by the large section of no coverage in the middle of idaho but I looked at the big carriers and that seems to be a deadzone for all of them which makes sense because that is all forest. |
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I am wondering if prepaid is the way to go. Some of them charge 20 cents per text and 25 per minute, which would add up really fast. Quoted:
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Probably easier to just go pre-paid. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I am wondering if prepaid is the way to go. Some of them charge 20 cents per text and 25 per minute, which would add up really fast. I use ptel mobile pre-paid. 5 cents a minute, and 2 cents a text. I mostly text. Works for me. |
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Trouble with Republic and Ting is that they are both based on the Sprint Network, which can be troubling. Page Plus uses the native Verizon network, which covers most of Idaho, although there are a few very large areas where they have no coverage at all. Are you sure Page Plus doesn't offer coverage, and it isn't that they don't have a dealer in the area? If they just don't have a dealer that really isn't a problem, I used Page Plus for years and never once stepped into a dealers store. I did everything I needed online. While Ting uses Sprint as the primary carrier, it has free voice roaming on Verizon's network. |