Mitch Anthony wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > My folks need a cell phone while traveling for a few months. Does anyone > have experience in alternatives to annual plans? Pre-paid? Single > month? Etc? I use Boost pre-paid. My reason for picking it was because I use the cell phone very little, and Boost was the cheapest to keep running -- you can buy time from them in $15 increments, and the minutes last for 90 days (most other prepaids have the minutes last for only 1 or 2 months); so Boost ends up costing only $5/month to keep the number going at the basic level. You will pay $.20 per minute though; or you can get Boost Premium, which is paid on a month-by-month basis (see http://plans.boostmobile.com/ for details). Boost being from Sprint/Nextel, they have very good nationwide coverage too. -- | Victor Danilchenko | Students nowadays, complaining they only get | | danilche at cs.umass.edu | 10MBs of disk space! In my day we were lucky | | CSCF | 5-4231 | if we had one file, and that was /dev/null. |