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I am an outsider to the cell phone community. I have one, but I rarely use it. So rarely that it didn't make sense for me to get a monthly plan. I was waiting and waiting for someone to come up with a real, working pay-as-you-go plan. A few years ago, all that was being offered was basically month to month contract service at the same price as regular service or higher. They called it pay-as-you-go, but I referred to it as the cell phone plan for those with bad credit.
Fast forward to just over a year ago... Finally, Virgin Mobile offers a plan where you buy a phone, you buy some minutes for that phone and they don't go away from month to month. I bought the Audiovox 8500 which is a tiny little flip style phone. The only requirement to retain service is that you have to buy $20 worth of time every 3 months. The minutes "cost" $.25 for the first 10 minutes in any given day, then $.10 after that. No long distance, roaming, extra charges ever. Like I said, I rarely use the phone. It is just there for occasional convenience and emergencies. I basically pay $80/year for my cell phone package. I like that a lot better than some of my friends who are spending $600/year for their cell phone service. Yeah! Virgin Mobile finally gave me the solution I was wanting.
The service areas are just fine, though admittedly I don't try to use it all that much in outlying areas.
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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