[pianotech] Cell Phone for Business

[Duaine & Laura Hechler]

Dean, et all,

At least for me, Tracfone would actually make me - lose - money.

I asked the question if I buy 60 minutes / 90 day service and I don't
use the 60 minutes what happens. They said you have NO minutes and you
have to buy another card of service.

And they told me that the cost of the call per minute is 33 cents

For an hour phone all:

AT&T Go-Phone plan = $1 / day + 60 minutes @ 10 cents per minutes $6

Tracfrone = $19.80 for 60 minutes @ 33 cents per minute (+ initial cost
of the 60 minute card)

now, another 1 hr call same day

AT&T Go-Phone plan = 60 minutes @ 10 cents per minutes $6

Tracfrone = $19.80 for 60 minutes @ 33 cents per minute

Total for the day:

AT&T Go-Phone plan = $13

Tracfrone = $39.60 (+ initial cost of the 60 minute card)

Duaine

Dean May wrote:
> 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
>
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