[Hidden-tech] short term cell phone alternatives

[Cynthia Roderick]

Victor,
Thanks so much for that info abut Boost... I too am looking for a
minimum-use package, but I already have a cell phone. Would this work on any
cell phone or do you have to buy their model/product?
Cynthia Roderick
Photographer

On 6/12/07 9:50 AM, "Victor Danilchenko" <danilche at cs.umass.edu> wrote:

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> Mitch Anthony wrote:
>>   ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
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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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