I can't stand talking on the phone and I detest the idea of signing a 2-year contract for a phone (much less any contract), but over a year ago I bought a T-Mobile prepaid cellphone. I absolutely could not be happier with it. When I put 1000 minutes on the phone for $100 (for a $0.10/minute rate), I was automatically moved into their "Gold Rewards" program, which gave me a year to use those 1000 minutes.
However, as I've stated, I don't like talking on the phone. After a year, I still had over 600 minutes left on the phone. When I went to add more minutes, I discovered that I only had to add the minimum amount of minutes (I believe it was 10) in order to have all of my leftover minutes from the previous year rolled over into another year of service. Basically, so long as you spend over $100 on minutes and renew with the minimum amount of minutes at the end of each year, your service will continue.
The downside of having a prepaid is that my cellphone isn't insured against loss, theft, etc. Moreover, if I lose it, I lose those minutes I added. Regardless, I'm very happy with the phone.
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I can't stand talking on the phone and I detest the idea of signing a 2-year contract for a phone (much less any contract), but over a year ago I bought a T-Mobile prepaid cellphone. I absolutely could not be happier with it. When I put 1000 minutes on the phone for $100 (for a $0.10/minute rate), I was automatically moved into their "Gold Rewards" program, which gave me a year to use those 1000 minutes. However, as I've stated, I don't like talking on the phone. After a year, I still had over 600 minutes left on the phone. When I went to add more minutes, I discovered that I only had to add the minimum amount of minutes (I believe it was 10) in order to have all of my leftover minutes from the previous year rolled over into another year of service. Basically, so long as you spend over $100 on minutes and renew with the minimum amount of minutes at the end of each year, your service will continue. The downside of having a prepaid is that my cellphone isn't insured against loss, theft, etc. Moreover, if I lose it, I lose those minutes I added. Regardless, I'm very happy with the phone.