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What’s prepaid got to do with the phone you use? In theory, nothing, but for those concerned about comitting to spending more than $5-10 a month on phone servi
by randallsquared 16y ago
What’s prepaid got to do with the phone you use?
In theory, nothing, but for those concerned about comitting to spending more than $5-10 a month on phone service (that is, the prepaid target market), spending $100-150 for a phone seems unlikely. And, in fact, I bought $10-15 phones repeatedly, about one a year on average, for the ~7 years I used prepaid-only. That was mostly with Virgin Mobile, though, which has no SIM, being a CDMA network.
- ugh 16y agoI used my last 100 Euro phone (my trusty old Sony Ericcson T630) for more than three years. That’s about 2.5 Euro per month. You get a solid phone that doesn’t look stupid and that seems totally worth it (those phones are also not locked which means you can change prepaid providers at a moments notice).
- alextgordon 16y agoIt's not quite that simple. You've got to consider the price of the phone on and off the contract, the price of the contract, monthly usage, prepaid value, expected life of the phone, etc. I bought my £100 phone 2 years ago with £10 credit. Still got about £4 remaining on it (clearly I don't make a lot of calls). If I'd bought it on a contract I would be down double or triple what I paid.