Prepaid Cell Phone Plan Users

@maezee (41997)
United States
May 31, 2018 10:07am CST
Happy Thursday all! Off to a sunny start here. I recently bought an unlocked Samsung Galaxy 7 and was disappointed to find out my current prepaid cell phone provider, Virgin Mobile, doesnt "do that" (most places you can pop a sim card in an unlocked phone and be done with it and use the unlocked phone). I was bummed to make this realization. It got me thinking however... what is keeping me with Virgin Mobile? I signed up for this at least 8 years ago. Its cheap and fits my needs. $35 plus tax gets me unlimited minutes, text and so called unlimited data (which it is, but it slows down from 4G to 2G after a certain amount of Gigabytes, cant remember quite how many). Not a bad deal all in all. Plus I like the idea of not being contracted in. Win win. Now I am perusing different prepaid plans to see which might work to switch to. Virgin Mobile only seems to sell iPhones and a very limited amount of phones on sites like eBay and Amazon. I realize we are all from different places and have different services available to us. Out of curiousity, have you ever had a prepaid plan with a company? How much did or do you pay and for what type of service? Are you happy with prepaid?
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AKRao24
@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
31 May 18
I always use prepaid plans only and they are much cheaper in India because of sevete compitition among the service providers! I use prepaid for calling and internet which hardly comes some $10 per three months including the tax!
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AKRao24
@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
31 May 18
@maezee , yes of course! Thanks!
maezee
@maezee (41997)
• United States
31 May 18
Wow! Now does that include texting and data?
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The Fly One
@aureliah (24319)
• Kenya
31 May 18
Wow! 10$ for 3 months is quite cheap
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Courtney
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
31 May 18
I did, through tmobile, years ago. Dont remember what i paid, but no more than 50.
maezee
@maezee (41997)
• United States
31 May 18
Thats a good price anything under 50 in my book is doable as long as its unlimited! I started out with Tmobile 10ish years ago and was paying an ungodly amount for just basic service in a contract.
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Courtney
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
31 May 18
@maezee my moms had tmboile for contract for 13 years. Only $180, for 4 lines, and unlimited everything.
Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
18 Jun 18
This is a couple of weeks late, but Tracfone uses Samsung. I think it is cheaper than Virgin Mobile. I have used it for years and years, but I am not too good with a smart phone. I was thinking of doing Samsung next. I just spent 50 for talk text and data for 90 days, but it is not unlimited. However, if I do not use it all it all rolls over to the next time. Extra data only options are also available.
Toni
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
5 Jun 18
Never happy with prepaid. I just feel comfortable being on a postpaid plan. I find it every convenient.
The Fly One
@aureliah (24319)
• Kenya
31 May 18
I use a prepaid plan. You load what you need or want