[BITList] cell phones

[Malcolm]

Colin,

 

In my UK card it cost nothing I just had to pay £10 and when I had used
£4.50 of the initial £10 they DD my current acc another £10 but that was 18
months ago. This will go on until I decide to not bother with a mobile
again. As I said I do not use it much. In Spain the card cost about 40 Euros
but you got a lot of time with the card. Their restricts were that you had
to guarantee to put at least 5 Euros on the card at least every 3 months.
Even there I never used the mobile very much. We just look it as an
emergency phone when we are in the car. Naturally we had land phones in the
UK and Spain. In UK I can phone  most people that I know in most of the
countries in the world, free on our land line. We regularly ring our brother
law in Adelaide for a half hour chat.

 

Malcolm. 

 

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Subject: [BITList] cell phones

 

Malcolm

 

I understand you can change the card- how much is a card, when does it
expire and for how many minutes call time?

 

I can add minutes to my phone – $30 for 3 hours call time but it is good for
only 90 days then it all expires – start all over again.

so its about $10/month for 60 minutes. that’s about as cheap as it gets but
as I only use it for on-the-road emergency calls it is sufficient.

 

Obviously I can pay more and get more call time – $200 for 1 year with 4500
minutes [375 mins/month], an additional $20 doubles the call minutes.

 

Colin

 

From: Malcolm <mailto:malcena2 at uwclub.net>  

Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 4:34 AM

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Subject: Re: [BITList] No-contract mobile plans compared:
VerizonEdge,AT&amp;T Next, T-Mobile Jump

 

Colin,

 

I have never had a service charge. I bought my Nokia phone in Spain with no
restrictions to it, then I could change the card in it to a UK one when I
was in UK or to a Spanish one when we were in Span. Lots of Europeans do
that as they flit about to others countries. We had friends who lived in the
next apartment to us and they had phone cards for Sweden, Germany, France
and Spain. They used to take a week or two weeks to drive from Sweden to
Spain depending what mood they were in. You may pay more money out to buy
the phone, but it is not tight to a company and it works out cheaper as time
passes.

 

Malcolm.

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