| Prepaid Cell Phone |
| Written by James Black | |
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If you are apparent of a teenaged daughter then it would be wiser for you to get her a prepaid cell phone . You know how teenaged girls love to talk for hours on end on the phone, and if it is not a prepaid one then your monthly bills would be as huge as a mountain. Prepaid cell phones are a great way to monitor your teenaged children. What are the services offered by prepaid cell phones? Well you get all the basic services that regular cell phones provide. Signing up for a prepaid cell phone is easy and finding one is also not that difficult as all prepaid cell phone connections are available at retail outlets, discount stores or electronic stores close to where you reside. Almost all major mobile service providers have a prepaid cell phone scheme. The charges for a prepaid cell phone are reasonable and no long term contract is necessary. In the United States alone there are more than 10 % users who have opted for prepaid cell phones. Out of which 60 % are women subscribers. Research shows that in the age group of 18 to 24 years almost 7% of younger generation uses a prepaid cell phone. A prepaid cell phone connection comes without any frills attached and there is no long term commitment either. You are free to change to any other plan whenever you wish. When you purchase a prepaid cell phone you will be provided with a plan that enables you speak for a certain number of minutes for a certain length of time which is normally a few months. After you have used your calls you need to go in for a recharge. Mobile service providers have various plans under this scheme. You can use the phone for making calls, sending text messages or even pictures to others and all this depends on the features of the phone. You can even check your email or use your phone to Google. All these can be done till you run out of the minutes paid for. You can stretch your prepaid cell phone according to your usage. Like it’s been said earlier, once you have completed using all the minutes, you can either stop using the phone or you can go but more minutes instantly for further use. There are many advantages and disadvantages of using prepaid cell phones. Let’s take a look at the advantages first. With a prepaid cell phone you have not only freedom but total control over what the service providers’ offer. There is no multi year plan with a standard number of minutes per month at specific call times and no additional charges would be imposed if the limit is exceeded and no additional fee is required to be paid if you plan to leave. With a prepaid cell phone you have the freedom to speak whenever you want for any length of time till you run out of the specified minutes available under the plan. What’s more there is no monthly bill to be. Prepaid cell phones are available cheap and are used by activist groups to reach millions of people instantly during political campaigns. Since prepaid cell phones are cheap many political activists find it advantageous to buy, use and then discard the phone after its purpose has been served. With a prepaid cell phone, a user can choose to talk how ever much they want to. If they have not used up their talk time then it gets rolled over to the next month and changing your plan is also hassle free incase you want to. People who greatly benefit from prepaid cell phones include parents of teenagers, people who use the cell phone occasionally, and trial users. Many parents prefer to buy a cheap prepaid cell phone for their teenaged children that have a card that allows them to speak on the phone for a certain amount of talk time. This phone enables teens to budget their calls and if necessary they are required to pay for the additional minutes used. Other subscribers of prepaid cell phones are those who make phone calls occasionally. They require the phone only for emergency purposes. Short term users find prepaid cell phones very economical as they can buy it use it for a short period while they are on vacation and then throw it. Travelers would be wise to pick up such cheap prepaid phones as you won’t want to end up losing your expensive phone while you travel. Prepaid phones are easy to buy as no credit card check is necessary. Anyone is eligible for a prepaid cell phone. If you though there are only advantages to prepaid cell phone, you are wrong there are disadvantages too. One of the main disadvantages of a prepaid cell phone is the cost per minute especially for anyone who wants to talk more on the cell phone. People use the cell phone for business purposes will find it highly disadvantages as they will never know when they will run out of talk time. |
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