[ale] somewhat OT - cheap t-mobile PAYG plan

Jim Kinney jkinney at jimkinney.us
Wed Mar 8 19:49:31 EST 2017



On March 8, 2017 2:47:06 PM EST, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>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."
>

How much are overages? Of course as an emergency only device, overages are the least concern.
>
>
>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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