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Re: Prepaid Questions [was Re: How to Make Right Call On Cell]

Thomas A. Horsley (tom.horsley@att.net)
Thu, 04 Nov 2004 23:46:33 GMT

> I'm not really sure what all your confusion is due to. Most tell you
> what the terms are i.e. you must pay a minimum amount to get service
> and there are usually some requirements for you to keep the service
> such as a requirement that you add money at a required interval or
> that you place a call by a certain period to keep your account active
> or both.

They tell you some of the terms up front, but actually finding out the
minimum time you have to buy to keep the phone active seems to be a
real challenge (at least to me), I've had to dive down multiple levels
to finally get to the leagalese fine print "terms of service"
documents, and then translate that from lawyer to human :-).

One big difference I have noticed is that some of the plans expire
your minutes if you don't use them, and others keep accumulating
unused minutes as long as you keep the phone active (if I went with
one of those, I'd probably eventually wind up with several years worth
of un-used minutes - maybe they should come up with a program for
donating unused minutes to charities :-).

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