[AT] O.T. - Cell phone?

[Charlie V]

Herb,

Tracfone works great for us.  The phones are sometimes free, or at least
inexpensive.  We have had ours for a number of years but if memory serves
they were under $20.00.  No contract.  Buy time and minutes as needed.  We
actually have four of them in service and I buy time only annually for each
one, and on line.  We have paid the one time charge to have double minutes
on all four.  One year with 400 minutes is $100.00, but with double minutes
that becomes 800 minutes.  I always buy when 250 bonus minutes are offered
so it then ends up being 1050 minutes.  Minutes never expire.  If not used
up they accumulate from year to year.  My wife uses hers very little so
both of her phones have about 4000 minutes for each.  I use mine more so
only have about 1400 on my primary and around 2000 on the other.  Not much
chance of running out of minutes for us.  I got rid of the expensive land
line with it's 15.00 / month taxes over two years ago.

Your mileage may vary, but this works well for us and the coverage is good
almost everywhere we go.

Charlie V.


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:

> O.T. – Cell phone contract is up next month, so started looking for
> someone other than Verizon (good service but expensive).
> Neighbors co-worker has good service using Virgin Mobile; cost would be
> $20 for phone and $20/month before taxes for 400 minutes.  One concern is
> coverage as they use Sprint towers, but
> Sprint uses Verizon towers for roaming (Virgin does not use Verizon towers
> for roaming).  This information is from local Radio Shack manager (Radio
> Shack sells Virgin Mobile phones).
> Would appreciate knowing of others experiences with Virgin Mobile and
> other cell phone providers.
> Herb
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