bruceR wrote:

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> I can confirm this. Both my parents bought an initial $100 card and then
> they just buy another $10 card every year. They've had the service for 3
> years.

Same with my mother and stepfather. They were conned into converting
from AT&T TDMA/AMPS to AT&T GSM, then went to Cingular when AT&T was
bought out. Coverage sucked with AT&T GSM at the time, and they switched
to T-Mobile prepaid. I walked my mother through unlocking her Nokia
handset from AT&T because she didn't want to enter all her contacts
again. They went from $40/month to about $7/month, and they also got a
bunch of their friends to dump Cingular postpaid in favor of T-Mobile
prepaid as well. T-Mobile works fine where they live. Page Plus would
have been too complicated for them. They want to go to a store to have
someone help them with stuff.