[Hidden-tech] short term cell phone alternatives

[Victor Danilchenko]

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> 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.

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