[ale] somewhat OT - cheap t-mobile PAYG plan
DJ-Pfulio
DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Wed Mar 8 14:47:06 EST 2017
https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go
"Pay as you go. $3/month
Get any combination of 30 minutes of talk or 30 texts."
On 03/08/2017 12:45 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> Neal,
>
> My son is 12 going on 13. He has a nice LG phone I found at Wally World
> for $30 dollars,I wasn't going to buy him a $300 to $600 phone. All I
> had to do what replace the prepaid sim with a sim I could add to my
> account, his phone is $10 a month with 2Gigs of Data, which he burn thru
> in the week watching YouTube the meth of his gen.
>
> I bought that watch this morning on amazon I found there for $15 for a
> first time watch, I though ok. It will be here tomorrow, wow Amazon
> surprise me with there deliverys. Well, it his second watch, the first
> was a Darth Varder Lego watch, which I don't think will be cool in
> Middle School. He seemed excited because a lot of friends have iWatches.
> I guess I am mean dad, as I can't see buy kids, those expense phones and
> watches.
>
> As for the $3 on T-Mobile, I can't answer that, I pay $100 for my phone
> a month, I have a plan back from like 2000, that have me unlimited text
> and phone and 7 Gigs a data, and my I don't have to pay to use my phone
> as a hot spot. So between my phone and my son and taxes, it's about $125
> a month. I looked at changing plans, but what I have I am saving some
> money.
>
> Sounds like JD might be able to answer the T-Mobile question.
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com
> <mailto:neal at mnopltd.com>> wrote:
>
> __
> http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21
> <http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21> is a
> link to the watch I bought. It is $10.99 with free shipping to the
> US. ( I had some bonus points left from buying a SJCAM. That's why
> it was just $3 for me.
>
> This is just a curiosity for me. My understanding is that for
> $3/mo I can have some very limited amount of voice phone time from
> TMobile. Like for the dozens of times I'm out somewhere and my
> normal android phone is dead again. If I never run their software
> to send emails from android phone to the watch it's still ok.
>
> Without knowing how old your son is, be aware that there are similar
> phone/watches more oriented to children: they include GPS location,
> and a panic button to dial a set number and .... I've not
> researched them; I just ran across some on Amazon.
>
> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 07:53 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> A $3 watch, do you have a link, I love to get one for my son. He
>> keeps trying to take my Samsung S and S3 that I have paired with
>> my Note 4. One thing about those smart watches I don't like is,
>> that you have to pay $5 buck a month for data plan. Yes, they do
>> have a telephone number. Yes, I can make calls like Dick Tracy on
>> it. Honestly the pairing and wireless are enough. I can use Wifi,
>> and my Note will connect to the watch remote if I am not close
>> enough for BT.
>>
>> I love my watches, I am on T-Mobile as well, been with them since
>> they were VoiceStream. I have my S, before iWatch came out it nice
>> to be able to sit in meetings and see alerts with out my phone
>> making a lot of noise.
>>
>>
>> What I would be worried about, and this is just me, if there any
>> malware spying on you, you did say you got the watch from China.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
>> <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/07/2017 05:25 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:
>> > <snip>
>> >> Just for fun, I ordered an
>> >> $8 SIM card to hook up with the $3/mo Tmobile service.
>> >
>> > Huh? What do they provide for three measly dollars?
>> >
>>
>> Access to their network on a PAYG plan.
>>
>> 30 minutes and 10 texts allowed, I think. Never use them.
>> Zero data,
>> but you can add a 7-day 1G data plan for non-roaming locations
>> for $10.
>> "Roaming" has burned me a few times - OBX and Alaska are
>> "roaming" and
>> not covered in the $10 data add-on, for example. They wouldn't
>> refund my
>> money - I'd used 50 bytes to verify the data was enabled in
>> Portland on
>> the way.
>>
>> I have wifi almost everywhere. Can't see a need to have data
>> plan most
>> of the time. Plenty of off-line apps, plus ads don't get in
>> the way or
>> suck data.
>>
>> Sorta shocked about the SIM cost. I've always gotten one free
>> or for $1.
>>
>> BTW, I've been on the t-mbl PAYG plan since 2007. It used to
>> be better.
>> No monthly costs, pay just for minutes used. Bought $10/yr for
>> about 8
>> yrs, that was it, before they changed it to $2.95/month in
>> late 2015.
>> $48/yr is pretty reasonable for an emergency cell phone, IMHO. My
>> prepaid account expires yearly, so just put $50/yr on it. I
>> figure most
>> people are paying $50+/month, so adding the $10/wk for data during
>> travel is a bargain!
>>
>> But it is t-mobile and sometimes the coverage does suck
>> completely.
>> OTOH, in those places pretty much every cell networks suck
>> including
>> verizon and AT&T.
>>
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