Wooly <nobody@nunya> wrote in news:4755647f$0$2314
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
> You obviously don't have children. Show me one who remembers
his
> pencil, his homework, his lunchbox and his jacket every morning
and I
> might agree that's a kid who is responsible enough to own a
cellphone.
> Until you prove to me that you're talking about MY kid I'll
continue to
> be a responsible parent by knowing his friends, his friends'
parents,
> his hangouts, his hobbies and his habits - all of which goes a
whole lot
> farther toward keeping a kid safe than a gadget in his pocket.
>
The modern kid will lose everything EXCEPT his video game and
SELLphone. My kids all grown and gone, she's 38. She lost
everything...it's a blonde thing...including a LOT of boyfriends.
But lose the COMMUNICATIONS link to the boyfriends? Uh-uh..
Larry
--
Isn't it ironic that the same ISPs that are telling you
you're downloads threaten their networks......
.....are testing 100Gbps TV to sell on the SAME systems? http://tinyurl.com/27qx3v
Patrick C wrote:
> 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.
I was told at a T-Mobile store that you can have any phone they offer, for
the equivalent of the one-year-commitment price plus $50.
"clifto" <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:p37h25-1ml.ln1@remote.clifto.com...
> Patrick C wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I was told at a T-Mobile store that you can have any phone they offer, for
> the equivalent of the one-year-commitment price plus $50.
>
Good point. Didn't know that. You'd think they would mention that on their
web site.
For activations search eBay for "PAGE PLUS PREPAID ACTIVATION"
> Go ahead. Try to buy any of what you claim. It doesn't exist. Even on
> Ebay.
What are you trying to say? Since activations are available on eBay, and
minutes can be purchased both on eBay and direct from Pageplus by phone
or online, clearly you have something that you're not saying.
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:20:28 -0800, SMS ??? ?
<scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>P.Schuman wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Virgin is one of the worst prepaid plans in terms of cost.
<snip>
If I can find a less expensive service, I'll switch to it. My wife
uses less than 10 minutes of wireless service per month, so Virgin
costs me $15 every 3 months, plus taxes and fees. I haven't found
anything cheaper.
> I justify it by not having an AT&T landline at home, which I
> consider obsolete. I'll never figure why someone with a
> SELLphone they're paying so much for has another drain on their
> funds with a useless landline with even MORE stupid addon
> charges, like "long distance", a throwback into the 1930's.
I have to have at least two phone lines. both with 5 Mbps DSL.
One has unlimited long distance to use a dial-up ISP in another city to
test my web servers from the outside. I can't use one DSL line to look
back into the other DSL line.
If line one is busy, it rolls over to line two. Cellphone is too awkward
to take a second call and flip between the two, compared to hitting the
hold button on the phone and answering second line.
I have a multi-line phone system at home with voice mail.
I can receive or place a call on my home phone and transfer the call to
my cellphone on the fly (and it frees up the land line).
At 04 Dec 2007 19:47:08 -0500 Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> > PagePlus is probably the best option
>
> except, you can't buy it.
>
> Go ahead. Try to buy any of what you claim. It doesn't exist. Even on
> Ebay.
PagePlus is certainly a weird outfit in that they don't really sell phones
(that I've been able to find- they simply activate phones you acquire
yourself.
I bought a used Verizon phone on eBay last month, e-mailed the info to
"Ugly Eric" along with a few bucks via PayPal, and my $25 eBay phone was
active within an hour.
basic cellular bill + added taxes ?
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