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AT&T Wireless is offering several refurbished GoPhone Pay As You Go phones for as low as $10 (based on ZIP code) with free shipping. No annual contract required. The pictured Nokia 2610 GoPhone is $10 with free shipping, and includes most goodies you'd want in a phone.
Good deal in these tough economic times.
Only if you do not plan to talk on it
AT&T prepaid plans aren't too economic.
These little prepaids are great if your contract phone dies and it's not time for a new contract agreement. No "bells and whistles," of course, but you can buy the prepaid phone then slip your SIM card into it.
All the bells & whistles? All I want a phone to do is two things:
1. make phone calls
2. receive phone calls
About the only time I use my gophone is when I'm traveling, since airport pay phones are atrociously expensive!
Isn't that just one thing. You do both of them at the same time. I mean you can't do one without also doing the other so it's really just one thing.
If you don't use it often, the minutes expire and then you lose the phone number.
if u don't use it, it'll fall off .... ask #4
t-mobile is a better deal for prepaid. right now they have free nokia phone (no contract) and $30 worth of free mins for signup.
mins average $0.10 each. if you buy the $100 refill you're enrolled in the "gold" club, and any mins you purchase wont expire for a year + you receive a %15 min bonus.
if you google around you can find the mins about 7% cheaper then direct from tmobile. plus if you dont want to wait, the real shops will usually match their website for free phone + $30 charge with the exception of a small activation fee (~$20)
Yes, T-Mobile is the best deal.
I've had a pay as you go for over a year now and I'm very happy with the service and the cost can't be beat.
great deal use it and toss
You can definitely do better than AT&T if you're looking for a prepaid plan. Take No. 8's advice and go with T-Mobile, which is not only cheaper per minute but gives you a year of service. Also keep in mind that once you've added $100 to a T-Mo account, it only takes a $10 refill to keep your account active for another full year. That means you can have an emergency (or regular) phone around for just $55 annually, assuming you don't do so much talking on it that you run out of minutes.
I use at&t gophone and I save a ton of money plus I'm not obligated to any contract. The key is that you need to buy minutes in $100 increments. If you buy them in lesser amounts, the minutes will expire in 3 months. If you buy $100 worth of minutes, they don't expire for 12 months. Also, the more times you recharge with $100, the more of a bonus you get. I just put my 3rd $100 and got a $15 bonus. This $115 worth of minutes will more than likely last me 4-5 months.
There are two plans, a .25/minute and a .10/minute. The catch to the .10/minute plan is that every day you use the phone, it subtracts $1.00 worth of minutes from your account. The plus side is that you get unlimited m2m to any other at&t customer. Most of my friends and family use at&t, so for $1.00 a day I can talk as much as want. Occasionally I need to talk to someone that doesn't use at&t, but I usually just call them back on a landline or keep the conversation brief.
If you are smart about this, don't want a contract, and want to save some money on your cel phone plan this could be a great option for you.
AT&T and Sprint score dead last in the most recent Consumer Reports' ratings of cell providers. And I doubt most people who've used them for any length of time would find this surprising.
#4, there are calling cards with dialling back function you can use at any pay phone without extra cost.