Re: Why the RAZR is killing Motorola

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> Todd Allcock wrote:
FYI - I have the Virgin Mobile pre-paid - as it appears to be the cheapest
with the only req of $20 every 90 days ....
>
> I have often recommended T-Mobile prepaid as the lowest cost prepaid
> option, for those people that can live with T-Mobile coverage. I even
> got my mother on T-Mobile prepaid, after AT&T/Cingular jacked up her
> rates when they converted her from TDMA/AMPS over to GSM. This started a
> movement in South Florida, where all her friends did the same thing.
> They could almost do a Seinfeld episode about how the seniors change
> long distance and wireless companies so much, and usually these are
> people that don't have to watch every dollar. In this case, nearly
> everyone she knew was on AT&T, which was the predominant carrier in
> South Florida. They all had very low cost rate plans, sub-$30. When
> Cingular took over, and began "encouraging" people to change to GSM,
> those sweetheart plans went away, and suddenly they were paying $50 for
> what used to cost sub-$30. Now they're all paying 10¢ a minute on
> T-Mobile, and using OneSuite (which I also was responsible for) for long
> distance now that they now longer have unlimited off-peak on their cell
> phones. Verizon isn't that great in South Florida, where they are at
> 1900 MHz, and PagePlus is too complicated to explain to people over a
> certain age (uh-oh).
>
>
>
>
> [Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
> posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going away,
> and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding AT&T's
> Wireless Service.]

At 29 May 2007 21:14:23 -0500 P.Schuman wrote:

> FYI - I have the Virgin Mobile pre-paid - as it appears to be the
cheapest
> with the only req of $20 every 90 days ....

PagePlus (a Verizon reseller) is $10 every 90 days, and T-Mobile is $100
for the first year, but only $10/year after the first.

"P.Schuman" <pschuman_NO_SPAM_ME@interserv.com> wrote in message news:%457i.8675$4Y.1795@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net ...
>
> FYI - I have the Virgin Mobile pre-paid - as it appears to be the cheapest
> with the only req of $20 every 90 days ....

The only drawback being that Virgin won't let you use an existing Sprint phone.
When I switched from T-Mobile postpaid to T-Mobile prepaid, I had no
trouble getting them to activate my RAZR at no charge.
--
John Richards

P.Schuman wrote:
> "SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
> news:464cf605$0$27184$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>> Todd Allcock wrote:
> FYI - I have the Virgin Mobile pre-paid - as it appears to be the cheapest
> with the only req of $20 every 90 days ....

Actually it's very expensive compared to T-Mobile and PagePlus.

> The only drawback being that Virgin won't let you use an existing Sprint
> phone.
> When I switched from T-Mobile postpaid to T-Mobile prepaid, I had no
> trouble getting them to activate my RAZR at no charge.
> --
> John Richards
Thats because its a gsm phone, I did the same, when I bought a new phone to
replace my Cingular Nokia 6230, I just bought a Go Phone Sim and had my kids
use the phone when they were out playing with their friends.