I've used T-Mobile's prepaid service for two and a half years, averaging about 150 minutes per month. I'm elated with it. As others have mentioned, once you reach $100 worth of refills, you become a Gold Rewards customer. In addition to minutes that persist for a year, they give you 15% more minutes with each refill. Text messages are $0.05 or $0.10 per message sent or received (I think). Voicemail works the same as their contract plans. If you call from a landline, you can check it for free.
As important to me as cost savings is anonymity. I fabricated a name and paid cash when I bought the phone. T-Mobile knows nothing about me.
Given that so many other providers are more expensive, I'm a bit surprised T-Mobile has yet to follow suit. I'll continue using it until they do.
I also use Gizmo Project with an analog telephone adapter at home for the majority of my outgoing calls. Those calls cost a penny a minute.
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I've used T-Mobile's prepaid service for two and a half years, averaging about 150 minutes per month. I'm elated with it. As others have mentioned, once you reach $100 worth of refills, you become a Gold Rewards customer. In addition to minutes that persist for a year, they give you 15% more minutes with each refill. Text messages are $0.05 or $0.10 per message sent or received (I think). Voicemail works the same as their contract plans. If you call from a landline, you can check it for free.
As important to me as cost savings is anonymity. I fabricated a name and paid cash when I bought the phone. T-Mobile knows nothing about me.
Given that so many other providers are more expensive, I'm a bit surprised T-Mobile has yet to follow suit. I'll continue using it until they do.
I also use Gizmo Project with an analog telephone adapter at home for the majority of my outgoing calls. Those calls cost a penny a minute.