[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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