Recommend your pre-paid cell phone! - Page 2

[MommyDOK]

[QUOTE=Leta;14741916]DH and I each have a TracFone in our glove boxes. They are strictly emergency/travel only. They each cost $10 every 90 days, so about $6/mo for our cell service (we do load up on minutes when we are going to be traveling, though). We got TracFones because they work in every zip code in the U.S., and no other cell phones (that I could find) do. (TracFone buys its coverage from larger carriers, that's why their coverage is so good.) I have used TracFone all over the U.S., including AK, with no problems.

For general, every day mobile phone use, we use the truphone app for ipod touch. This costs around $4/mo for both (you buy a year's worth of service at a time). We can call any VOIP, cell, or landline number in North America without a per minute fee. International calls cost extra. You have to be under a wifi cloud for this to work, but we usually are. TracFone back up just in case we aren't.

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Ok, I'm phone illiterate (honestly I feel like I need a jitterbug). How can you have an ipod touch and talk on the phone?
I'm trying to figure this all out.

[AAK]

I have a tracfone, I got it last summer. $100 got me a year of service 900 minutes and double minutes for life. I still have 850 of those minutes, so clearly I don't use it much. DH has had a verizon phone forever, with a ridiculus monthly fee, so we are switching him to a tracfone too. He does use more minutes than I do, so I imagine we will swap phones occasionally. That ipod touch thing sounds cool, but alas I don't have an ipod touch so I guess it doesn't matter for me.

Amy

[lilyka]

I have a tracphone and like it well enough. I don't use it much but it works. my neighbor has it as her primary phone and loves it.

[snarky]

I have TMobile, which is great. I visit Canada a lot and it roams to Canada on the pay as you go plan. This is awesome. Tracfone is USA only.

[sweetpeppers]

I have virgin mobile. I get great cell reception. $20 for 200 minutes, and I also pay five dollars to have internet access for the month (I just use it to check my email to see if I have sales and stuff since I don't have regular internet without being somewhere with WIFI) which is a HUGE help.