Powers' survey of wireless prepaid customer satisfaction. TracFone -- Simple pricing and easy to use; inexpensive phones, carry-over minutes, screen view of number of remaining minutes. Recommended by WirelessGuide. Some plans offer unlimited text messaging and unlimited nights and weekends. Traditional cell phone providers have done business mainly through long-term monthly contracts with customers.
However, they also are stepping up and sweetening prepaid offerings to get a piece of this growing market. Here are some strengths for each, again based on surveys and reviews. Ranked above industry average in J. T-Mobile To Go -- Sidekick with camera and keyboard and Motorola Razr phones, plus a wide array of phone features, including free incoming text and picture messaging and competitive pricing. Highest rating from PrepaidReviews.
Verizon INpulse -- Same good quality and customer service as the traditional plans; large selection of phones including keyboard-equipped LG and Motorola Razr; unlimited calling at night and to other Verizon phones.
Readers Choice award from PC Magazine for highest ratings among prepaid carriers based on superior call quality. Rated best for frequent talkers, based on low minute rate, by WirelessGuide.
Maybe you'd like to use a prepaid cell phone for calls to or from other countries. Go to the next page to learn more about international prepaid cell phones. How prepaid users buy additional minutes: 36 percent buy a card at a local retailer and 36 percent buy through the provider's Web site. Making international calls from your prepaid cell phone may be easy -- if you're calling from the United States and your prepaid plan offers an international option.
If you plan to make calls from another country, however, you probably want to consider other options, like an international prepaid cell phone. Let's say you're calling from within the United States, using a Virgin Mobile prepaid phone as an example.
For some countries -- like Canada, Puerto Rico or Jamaica -- you don't even need to dial Virgin Mobile charges the international per-minute rate for the country you're calling plus your standard airtime rate. There's no additional international charge for calls to Puerto Rico or the U.
Virgin Islands. If you're calling from another country, however, you're likely to have a problem with your phone's compatibility with local networks. Cell phone networks in the United States use several different technologies to transmit information.
Cell phone users in those countries can buy one phone and simply switch to a different SIM card for phone access in each country. But unless you have the phone unlocked to work with other cell phone providers, you'll probably have to pay your company's international roaming rates. Your service probably won't give you the code to unlock the phone, but several Web sites offer unlock codes for free or a small fee. SIM cards for various countries are available from Web sites such as Telestial.
If you're going to be spending an extended time in a country, another option is to buy a prepaid cell phone once you arrive. In almost every country, you get unlimited incoming calls for free. For lots more information on prepaid cell phones and related topics, see the helpful links on the next page.
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Cell Phones. How Prepaid Cell Phones Work. Prepaid cell phones are a great way to monitor teens' phone usage. Who Uses Prepaid Cell Phones? Read More. Advantages of Prepaid Cell Phones " ". Parents of teenagers. If you don't have any minutes left, you can't make calls or send text messages, although you can still call for emergencies and, with some phones, receive messages stored until you have the minutes to view them. Parents can buy a cheap cell phone for a teen and a card per month for a set number of minutes, leaving the teen to budget use and pay for additional minutes.
Occasional cell phone users. If you only use a cell phone for emergencies and perhaps a few calls a week, you don't need a fancy phone or a complicated billing plan. A prepaid phone may work well, but make sure you know about any time limit on unused minutes. Short-term users. Buy it, use it on vacation or while your regular cell phone is missing or broken -- and then throw it away. Trial users. Before committing to a long-term cell phone plan, use a prepaid phone for a month or two to gauge what your or your teenager's actual usage will be.
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Some phones are outdated and cannot be used as pay-per-use phones. Go into the store or online and select a prepaid plan for your phone. This can be a top-up account where you pay a set price for a certain amount of minutes, or a pay by the day plan where you pay a fee just on the days you want to use your phone.
Take the battery cover off your old phone and remove the SIM card. Insert the new SIM card in its place and close the phone back up. Turn on the phone and follow the onscreen prompts to set the date and time.
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