Company Overview

T-Mobile is one of the largest mobile operators in the U.S. with over 100 million customers worldwide. T-Mobile merged with SunCom Wireless and is based in Bellevue, Washington. It offers a wide array of voice and data services for both domestic and international calling needs. The company’s tagline, “Stick Together”, encourages consumers from all walks of life to live, work and play using their advanced wireless services.

Prepaid Plans

There are different prepaid plans offered by T-Mobile Prepaid. The Pay By The Day plan offers unlimited nights from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m for only an additional of $1.00 per day and it is charged only on the days you use your phone. Domestic calls outside of the unlimited nights are charged 10 cents per minute. The Pay As You Go plans offer a fixed charge for a certain bucket minutes: $100 for 1000 minutes, $50 for 400 minutes, $25 for 130 minutes, and $10 for 30 minutes. If you take advantage of the Gold Rewards promo, you get 15% more minutes every time you refill $100. The Sidekick Prepaid plan is applicable for data usage. You get unlimited email, internet, and text messaging for only $1.00 per day. The rate for domestic calls on this plan is 15 cents per minute.

Pros and Cons

With T-Mobile Prepaid, you can enjoy wireless services without annual contracts, monthly bills or credit checks. You simply refill your minutes online or through retailers in order to use your phone. The rates get expensive when you buy refill cards lower than $100.00. For example, you’re paying almost 20 cents per minute with a twenty five dollar refill card.

Features

Minutes The rates per minute vary depending on the plan you choose. Pay By the Day has the standard 10 cents per minute on all domestic calls which are not covered by the Unlimited Nights. The Pay As You Go has four refill cards to choose from and the minutes included goes higher as you purchase a card with a higher denomination. The Sidekick Prepaid costs 15 cents per minute on all domestic calls.

Data With the Sidekick Prepaid plan, you can access your emails, browse the web, send text messages and use instant messaging for only an additional of $1.00 per day.

Text and picture Plans other than the Sidekick Prepaid plan charges 10 cents for sending text messages and 5 cents for receiving. Sending pictures costs 25 cents for both sending and receiving.

International When calling to a country outside of the U.S., additional charges apply. The lowest rate is $0.40 per minute. Check the website the rates to specific countries.

Calling Features Calling features include voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, and three-way calling. Airtime charges may apply when retrieving voicemail, using calling waiting, and when making a conference call.

Long distance Nationwide long distance is included on all plans of T-Mobile Prepaid.

911 Yes.

Payment Options

Accounts can be refilled using the phone’s menu or by calling a number. Subscribers may also visit a retail store or authorized dealers. Payment options include credit and debit cards, check and cash.

Roaming charge

All T-Mobile Prepaid plans include free nationwide roaming.

Activation fee

None.

Minute expiration rules

Minutes purchased on cards lower than $100 expire within 90 days. But $100 refill cards will extend the service for one year.

Customer Service

Customer service can be contacted through a toll-free number, email or participating retail stores.

Phones

Available T-Mobile Prepaid phone models are Nokia 1208, Motorola V195, Nokia 1680, Samsung t109, Samsung t219, Samsung Black Stripe, Nokia 2760, and Nokia 2610.

Christophe Catesson
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/tmobile-prepaid-review-plans-phones-pros-and-cons-748914.html

Are you tired of going through elaborate contracts to talk to your friends and family overseas? Do you need immediate credit to call a specific country for a short period of time without paying enormous rentals? All of your problems can simply be solved if you consider purchases credit through a Calling card. Simply put, a calling card is communication credit card used by consumers to get telephony services.

These calling cards have a pre-paid system, in which you pay for some minutes or a certain value of currency to get access to telephony service immediately. You can either go for international calling cards which enable you to call almost any country in the world from any phone you can get your hands on.

However, region specific calling cards might be a better options as they provide the cheapest deals possible in the market. For example, if you buy a calling card meant exclusively for the Caribbean, you might end up saving upto 40% on the call charges!

Now, the reason that these calling cards come at such cheap prices is easy enough to understand. Card Providers purchase call credits in bulk from the major telecommunication companies – often with huge discounts. In turn, these companies pass a significant amount of these discounts to their end consumers as well.

Most of the UK calling card providers adhere to this policy and reap handsome benefits. Besides, UK’s multicultural society provides many avenues for calling card companies to pitch their products to a wide array of population with contacts all over the globe. Thus the immigrant minorities in UK are helping to develop the telecommunication business even more.

The best benefit of a calling card is that you know exactly how much are you spending and where. This feature may seem similar to pay-as-you-go mobile phones, but provides an added advantage of being able to offer credits as low as £5!!

Calling cards can be a significant factor in the further growth of the increasingly saturated UK telephony market. Now, free calling cards and free minutes are increasingly being offered to lure customers and make them a fan of the convenience that this technology offers. If this sector turns out to be the biggest telephony business opportunity in UK in the years to come, I would not be surprised.

Henry Kruz
http://www.articlesbase.com/cell-phones-articles/calling-cards-calling-the-future-ahead-98485.html

The very popular iPhone must be used with the not so popular cellular network AT&T. People using other networks must break their contracts to switch to AT&T. That can cost up to 0. But a teenager has modified the computer code in an iPhone, freeing it from its corporate master and letting it work with other carriers. Apple advertisements read: “There’s never been an iPod that can do this. No there certainly has not. The iPhone, the most hyped mobile phone ever, has been hacked by this guy: 17-year-old-George Hotz, making the phone potentially usable on networks all over the world. “It’s very technical, and it requires opening up your phone, soldering a wire, the two points, and then running some software that I wrote, putting your iPhone back together. Inserting any sim card that you want, and then just using it.” It can cost over 0 to get out of a contract with a cell phone company and switch to another. So people pining for an iPhone but stuck with, say, a T-Mobile contract, are out of luck unless they pay the penalty fee. In this case, Hotz placed a T-Mobile SIM card, a small chip that identifies a phone to a network, in an iPhone. Voila…This was a high tech feat using some low-tech tools. The trick to opening the iPhone case — there’s an official Apple case opener tool — guitar picks. “Some guy told me,” explained Hotz, “that when we first started, when I first got the iPhone, ‘Hey dude, to open it up, just slide a guitar pick right in there.’ Sure enough …