[S-99]

I moved over to tracfone during summer in my continued acts of defiance against my parents. The idea was that i can pay for my own phone when i want one and that i am rejecting the one they gave me and pay for and that i didn't ask for.

I went with tracfone instead of net10 because a lot of tracfones are coming with double minutes for life (life being service days) for no added cost to the phone. Which makes tracfone minutes cheaper than net10's the higher the minute cards you buy ($80 for 450min card that doubles to 900 on my phone). Net10 is always 10 cents a minute, so 1000 minutes for $100, and $80 for 900 beats net10.

Since october, net10 redid their sales. 900 minutes for $60, 600 minutes for $45. I'm not mentioning the monthly plans because i like service days and minutes that carry over. I'm real curious if these new totals for minutes are here to stay, or on the way out when the holidays are done. This is a significantly better deal than ever before with a good prepaid cell phone (despite the fact that net10 is owned by tracfone). I'm looking for proof.

[Nuke]

i wouldn't own a phone if my life depended on it.

[redsniper]

Yeah, how many minutes do you really talk on the phone in a month? I use up text messages WAAAAAAY faster than minutes.

[Nuke]

text messages dont make no sense to me at all. you get charged more to send a few bytes of data than you do to keep a 2 way audio channel open at several hundred kbps. its one of the reasons i dont like cells is the layers of bull**** you have to wade through when they bill you.

[S-99]

I use about 200 minutes a month. And i do like texting. Yes the charges for data and texting are bull****. Wireless providers make it out like it's hard to keep up with. The rates for texting on all phones should be dirt cheap.

Tracfone for prepay has good texting though 3.33cents a text. Net10 qwerty phones also have 3.33cents a text. In this case for texting, it's cheaper to text than it is to talk.

[BloodEagle]

text messages dont make no sense to me at all. you get charged more to send a few bytes of data than you do to keep a 2 way audio channel open at several hundred kbps. its one of the reasons i dont like cells is the layers of bull**** you have to wade through when they bill you.

You have just defined the core-problem with human existence and / or economics. I congratulate you, my good sir!

[Nuke]

it always bugs me when when people know they are being taken for a ride, but then keep paying up anyway. its the kinda thing id never stand for. im almost ready to give up technology and live in the woods.

[S-99]

Realistic texting values should be about half a penny or less per text. Wireless phone companies go crazy with it though.