[pianotech] Cell Phone for Business

[Dean May]

Duaine

You really should check out Tracfone. You don't have the $1 a day fee and
under the double minute plan you can get the cost down to less than 9 cents
a minute. 

Instead of charging $1/day you get 90 days worth of service every time you
add a minute card. And it is usually cumulative. I usually get the 450
minute card for around $80 to get the lowest rates. I have a double minute
for life plan on the phone so it gives me 900 minutes. Almost always there
is some bonus minute promo that'll give me an extra 50 minutes bringing the
total up to 950 minutes. Since I use more than that much time in 90 days I
never have to worry about running out of service before I run out of
minutes. 

The display always shows how many minutes of airtime are left and when your
airtime days expire. Right now I have 308.5 units (minutes) left and I have
to add more service before 5/29/2011. You can buy airtime cards lots of
places. I like to buy it right off their website. I just enter the phone's
ESN number and it downloads right to the phone. You can also buy it from the
phone. 

My wife's phone is the opposite problem. She doesn't use it much so she runs
out of service time before she runs out of minutes. When that happens I just
add a smaller unit minute card, like 120, or 250, to get the service time
extended without adding as many minutes. You can also just add a service
time card, but it is more cost effective to do it the other way. 

Tracfone runs primarily over the Cingular network so coverage is pretty
excellent. 

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802

 


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Duaine & Laura Hechler
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 6:31 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Cell Phone for Business

Rob

I might as well chime in.

I use the AT&T Go-Phone plan. You pay as you go. You can put in as much
as you want. I put in the max $100. It's $1 a day (as you use it) and
10cents a minute.

For me, it lasts about a year. Of course, I - only - use it for business
and/or emergencies.

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/go-phones/

Duaine

Rob Mitchell wrote:
>
> I've got the LG Versa (Verizon) and I've been very happy with it.  I
> like being able to snap on a keyboard when a I need one, as I did the
> whole week of the convention for checking email.
>
>  
>
> Rob
>
>  
>
> Mitchell Piano Service
>
> (415) 994-1030
>
> www.mitchellpianoservice.com <http://www.mitchellpianoservice.com/>
>
>  
>


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