Most Affordable US Prepaid Mobile Options

Posted by Floyd Smithfield

October 13, 2009

by Floyd Smithfield

The specifics of different prepaid mobile plans are usually made to suit different kinds of clients, so it’s important know about your kind of consumption to choose the most convenient plan. For instance, do you text a lot, or call during off peak times? Do you occasionally surf the Internet, or make calls from outside your home state?

Most prepaid mobile plans work the same, although the tariffs are often wildly different. You pay a certain amount of dollars to charge your credit and can then use that money for calls and for other services, such as sending text messages.

One important point to consider is that unused prepaid mobile credit expires, but this takes a different amount of time based on the operator and on the size of your last recharge. You don’t want to find yourself losing half of 100$ because you didn’t know your plan details!

Also, if you don’t top up your prepaid mobile phone regularly, after six months or a year the rental of the line will expire too, and you will lose the phone number. You will then have to get a new number and go through the hassle of telling all your friends that you changed phone number.

Coverage is another thing that people often fail to check. You may have a contract with the best operator but if you can hardly use the phone because of a lack of coverage, you aren’t going to use it. Make sure that you have good coverage.

As for the operators and their plans, Virgin Mobile has a very cheap offer, with most prepaid mobile recharges giving you the opportunity to call for 10 cents a minute. The credit doesn’t last long though, only a month, so you should only charge your account with what you will spend in that time.

T-Mobile is usually considered the operator with the best choice of prepaid mobile handsets, and you can often get these at a cheaper price of you take them in conjunction with a pay as you go plan. Its cheapest payment option is $10 for 30 minutes, which is costly, but prices decrease if you top up for higher amounts at a time. And if you top up $100, your credit is valid for a whole year.

TracFone offers nice phones too, if somewhat more basic, and generally the call quality is very good. Prices are similar to T-Mobile, around 20 cents a minute depending on the prepaid mobile top-up amounts. This carrier is suitable if you want to top up small amounts more often.

MetroPCS also offers good service and rates, but its prepaid mobile service is only available in 33 states. This includes the most populous ones, so there is a good chance that this carrier will be available to you, though. Avoid it if you travel a lot out of state though, as their roaming and long distance rates are quite steep for prepaid mobiles.

Cingular is great for occasional prepaid mobile use, as the calls are very cheap at 10 cents a minute, although they also charge you a dollar every day that you will make calls with your prepaid mobile.

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