Why did Verizon ditch the prepaid phone card? I'm ++

looking for a good substitute. Thanks for any suggs.

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
<tweeny90655@mypacks.net> wrote:

>looking for a good substitute. Thanks for any suggs.

http://www.pagepluscellular.com/

On 4/23/2012 10:30 AM, Kalmia wrote:

> looking for a good substitute. Thanks for any suggs.

Sadly, nothing really compares. The big advantage of the Verizon card
was that it could be used in many different countries. I guess it's
still good for now, but you can't add any more funds onto it.

Per Kalmia:
>looking for a good substitute.

Dunno from "good".... but I've been using tMobile.

It's attraction for me is that, once I put up the first $100 for
minutes, I can keep it alive indefinitely by buying $10.00 worth
of additional minutes per year.

No big deal for me bc I use more than that... but for the wife,
who uses her phone almost never, it's a cheap way to have a phone
available.
--
Pete Cresswell

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:4f95bf23$0$16195$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> On 4/23/2012 10:30 AM, Kalmia wrote:
>
>> looking for a good substitute. Thanks for any suggs.
>
> Sadly, nothing really compares. The big advantage of the Verizon card was
> that it could be used in many different countries. I guess it's still good
> for now, but you can't add any more funds onto it.

I don't know nuthin' about the Verizon card, but there are so many
alternatives.

When not using VoIP, I use the calling card capabilities of onesuite
(www.onesuite.com) for pennies. I've used them for years, from many
far-flung countries, with no problems at all. And they also do VoIP. Used
them for that until I found better, cheaper, more flexible VoIP providers...

On 4/23/2012 2:28 PM, tycho wrote:

> When not using VoIP, I use the calling card capabilities of onesuite
> (www.onesuite.com) for pennies. I've used them for years, from many
> far-flung countries, with no problems at all. And they also do VoIP. Used
> them for that until I found better, cheaper, more flexible VoIP providers...

OneSuite is great, but the Verizon/MCI card had access in far more
countries. OneSuite has actually been eliminating countries where there
is access.

There are a lot of calling cards out there, but if you wanted one that
wasn't by some fly-by-night company, and that had worldwide access, the
Verizon card was the one to get, even if the per minute rates were not
the lowest.

On 4/23/2012 2:26 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
> Per Kalmia:
>> looking for a good substitute.
>
> Dunno from "good".... but I've been using tMobile.
>
> It's attraction for me is that, once I put up the first $100 for
> minutes, I can keep it alive indefinitely by buying $10.00 worth
> of additional minutes per year.
>
> No big deal for me bc I use more than that... but for the wife,
> who uses her phone almost never, it's a cheap way to have a phone
> available.

That's great, but it has no relation to a prepaid phone card.

Per SMS:
>
>That's great, but it has no relation to a prepaid phone card.

Mea Culpa.

What is the distinction?

Something about a physical card? I figured the little thingie
that goes in the phone was the "card".
--
Pete Cresswell

On 4/24/2012 11:20 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
> Per SMS:
>>
>> That's great, but it has no relation to a prepaid phone card.
>
> Mea Culpa.
>
> What is the distinction?
>
> Something about a physical card? I figured the little thingie
> that goes in the phone was the "card".

No, the original poster is talking about a phone "card" that you use to
make long distance calls from a landline or payphone (though you might
also use it for international calls from a cell phone).

Verizon is getting out of that business. No new cards will be activated
and no refills to existing cards.

When traveling outside the U.S., phone cards are especially useful since
if you're doing international roaming on your cell phone it costs a
fortune, and even prepaid foreign SIM cards are usually much more
expensive than using a prepaid phone card.

Verizon's card was especially good because they had local access numbers
in most countries. There are loads of those prepaid phone cards out
there, but most don't have good access outside the U.S..

<http://minutepass.com/> was one of Verizon/MCI's cards.

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:06:08 -0700, nobody wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> <tweeny90655@mypacks.net> wrote:
>
>>looking for a good substitute. Thanks for any suggs.
>
> http://www.pagepluscellular.com/

That's what I was going to say. I use ~1600 minutes a month, and for
$39.95 with 100mB data, it's great!

If I ditch this job (looks like it's ending May 31) I'm going back to a
Motorola from my BB and going to $29.95 for 1200 minuts.

A lot cheaper than the usual pre-paid.

On 4/26/2012 9:38 PM, hachiroku wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:06:08 -0700, nobody wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>> <tweeny90655@mypacks.net> wrote:
>>
>>> looking for a good substitute. Thanks for any suggs.
>>
>> http://www.pagepluscellular.com/
>
> That's what I was going to say.

That would be great if the original poster was looking for a prepaid
phone. Not so great since he isn't.

I expect that you're leaving that job in order to devote all your time
to the Obama campaign, and you may need a lot of minutes, so consider
going for the unlimited voice and text plan with 100MB of data for $10 more.

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:08:21 -0700, sms88 wrote:

>
>
> On 4/26/2012 9:38 PM, hachiroku wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:06:08 -0700, nobody wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>>> <tweeny90655@mypacks.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> looking for a good substitute. Thanks for any suggs.
>>>
>>> http://www.pagepluscellular.com/
>>
>> That's what I was going to say.
>
> That would be great if the original poster was looking for a prepaid
> phone. Not so great since he isn't.
>
> I expect that you're leaving that job in order to devote all your time
> to the Obama campaign, and you may need a lot of minutes, so consider
> going for the unlimited voice and text plan with 100MB of data for $10 more.


Damn, SMS you can read me like a book, can't you!

Yeah, I'm going to devote all my effort from now to the end of the year to
getting Obama re-elected!

Figures, they just upped the data from 10Mb to 100Mb. Smooth!

But after the 31st I won't need unlimited....they dropped our contract so
I become another victim of Bush's economic policies...

On Apr 23, 5:28*pm, "tycho" <t...@wont-work.com> wrote:
> "SMS" <scharf.ste...@geemail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:4f95bf23$0$16195$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>
> > On 4/23/2012 10:30 AM, Kalmia wrote:
>
> >> looking for a good substitute. *Thanks for any suggs.
>
> > Sadly, nothing really compares. The big advantage of the Verizon card was
> > that it could be used in many different countries. I guess it's still good
> > for now, but you can't add any more funds onto it.
>
> I don't know nuthin' about the Verizon card, but there are so many
> alternatives.
>
> When not using VoIP, I use the calling card capabilities of onesuite
> (www.onesuite.com) for pennies. *I've used them for years, from many
> far-flung countries, with no problems at all. *And they also do VoIP. *Used
> them for that until I found better, cheaper, more flexible VoIP providers....

I use them [OS] from home when not using Google Voice, but have OS
info stored on my smartphone in case I ever have to call overseas.

If you want free time on Onesuite use sweet-treat/prpmo code
"FREEoffer23" when opening account.