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Old December 4th, 2007
Patrick C
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Default basic cellular bill + added taxes ?

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"P.Schuman" <pschuman_NO_SPAM_ME@interserv.com> wrote in message
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> wonder which prepaid you are using ?
> We have our son on Virgin Mobile right now....
> but he's starting to eat up the minutes :)
> It seemed the best at 90 day interval for adding funds.
>
> "Patrick C" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>> We use prepaid, buy 1000 minutes at a time for $100 and only pay sales
>> tax
>> on that (less we find refill card on EBay). We live in Illinois and our
>> local sales taxes are 7%. The minutes last a year then are rollable if
>> you
>> don't use them. Of course we don't use that many minutes to begin with
>> and
>> the prepaid phone selection isn't that great. We have 2 non camera
>> phones
>> and a Sidekick II I only use for 10 days every 3 months ($10 a crack)
>> when
>> we go on vacation so we don't have to lug the laptop around.
>>
>> "P.Schuman" <pschuman_no_spam_me@interserv.com> wrote in message
>> news:Vz45j.2844$Vq.1321@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...
>> > My son is out looking at different cell plans so he can get a
>> > smartphone..
>> > However, I've warned him - for budgeting purposes - that the real
>> > monthly
>> > cost
>> > is not just the detailed voice and/or data plan,
>> > but it also includes the local TAXES.
>> >
>> > Looking at some of my old Sprint bills,
>> > it looks like a $39 plan had about $7.50 added in taxes = 20%
>> >
>> > So - what do you see on your bill as far as actual plan cost vs added
>> > taxes ?
>> >

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