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Originally Posted by beaner
After our Verizon contract expired, we dumped them and switched to TracFone pre-paid. I think they run off the US Cellular towers, but in any case, they work great. In some signal-challenged areas such as Melvin Village and Madison we actually get a better signal than we did with Verizon. Our company is saving a TON of money after the switch. We don't use any texting and we're low volume callers, though. You can buy a TracFone for next to nothing at any WalMart and buy only the amount of minutes you actually need. You can also buy phones and minutes online http://www.tracfone.com |
Hey beaner thanks, although I have looked into TracFone and actually owned one myself about 9 years ago this option is not feasable for me. The amount of time I spend on the phone between personal use and business makes this option not cost effective. We actually have three cellphones. One for me, one for him and one for our business. For purposes of taxes, proffessionalism and sanity I will not commingle business calls with personal calls or vice versa. He has some long time customers who have his personal # but I don't do this for many reasons. Anywhoo I would love to be able to know that every month
no matter what the cost for phone usage is a straight $150.00 for all three. It can vary so much but usually for the month I end up paying $200-$300 for all three. I have paid up to $600
These were times when the phone company did the sneaky little things they usually do to make money and I got the boots put to me cause I didn't catch it. Or DH rekindled his love affair with tetris. Don't get me started! LOL. It's become a hassle to keep constantly changing the plans on three different phones to meet the ever-changing needs of each line. As soon as I get it straight it's something else, or DH drops his cell phone in a 5 gallon paint bucket or business picks up out of nowhere and the phone rings non-stop. Life is just too impossible to predict so to know that I can plan on $150.00 every month makes me happy. And will save me hours on the phone with tech support pressing buttons to try and reach a person who can barely speak English!
I'm glad TracFone works for you and is saving you and your co. money, that's what I'm looking to do myself but our trade requires a lot of phone time and sometimes long distance calls, and in turn we need something like Unlimited Minutes. We have paid for plans with a lot of minutes which get more and more expensive as the mins increase, then the demand for phone usage slows down for whatever reason and we're still paying for all these mins we're not using. Then I'm back on the phone pushing buttons for ten mins and waiting an hour to speak to someone named Ishmuackelraanmoolie who if I'm lucky understands my problem and can suggest a helpful solution. No offense to anyone foreign but when they don't have a good grasp of the English language all kinds of things get changed or switched around on the plan and no matter whose fault it is big co.'s like Verizon have a million reasons why it is the consumers fault and in turn can justify charging you the same amount of money for your cell phone that you pay for your mortgage! LOL. Ugh...I even think about it and turn 3 shades of red!
