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I'm Not

I'm not on a plan.

I'm on prepaid with T-Mobile

this is the cheapest plan u will ever get

1) prepaid (you can use any T-Mobile or AT&T unlocked Phone)

2) i pay 10 dollars every 3-4 months

3) all my minutes last 1 year (or till used up)

How is this possible might you ask ?

once you spend 100 dollars on minutes you are automatically added to their Gold Rewards pre paid plan, which gives you more minutes per purchase and all your minutes last a year instead of 90 days.

NOW heres the trick

NEVER answer your phone OR make a call on it :-)

it coasts you nothing to receive a call ONLY to answer and make them

download Skype (ON your computer) at 3 dollars a month "all you can eat" out going phone calls to any phone in the US. Once someone calls you, you call them back with Skype (assuming you do not have a home phone like me)

ALSO you can get a Skype home phone number for 20 dollars a year (i do not use this)

People will QUICKLY learn that once they call u to wait 1 min and you will call them back, If you are at home, if you are out and about there is 2 ways to handle this

1) answer the phone BUT make it short and sweet

2) if they need to get a-hold of you quickly, use one of these two steps

2a) if you did not call them back in a min (or 2) and they know you are out. after calling you have them send u a text message (this will cost you 5 cents)

2b) have them call you 2 times in a row, to let you know they need to talk asap

it took me a few month to learn this trick! so at first i had to buy lower cost per min deals (IE: 50-100 dollars at a time for 13-10 cents per minute) it's hard not to answer the phone as soon as it rings. but once you get the knack down and resist the urge to answer at once and wait a min, you can get away with buy 10 dollars at a time at 33 cents per min BUT u will barely use them! the longest i have gone without buy more minutes was around 7 months. because people feel they need to talk ASAP and cant wait till u get home, i average buying minutes every 3 to 4 months

your friends and family will pick this up REAL quick

so basically you are only paying 3 dollars a month :-)

PLUS minutes 3-4 times a year

and when u get really good at it you can get away with buying only 10 dollars at a time (costs more per minute but you will not use them much if at all)

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here is a breakdown on their minutes:

Refill value	* Whenever Minutes® / Minutes Expire

$10	30 min / 90 days	35 min / 1 year

$25	130 min / 90 days	150 min / 1 year

$50	400 min / 90 days	460 min / 1 year

$100	1000 min / 1 year*

Cost per minute

$100	10¢/min.	1000 minutes*

$50	13¢/min.	400 minutes

$30	19¢/min.	160 minutes

$10	33¢/min.	30 minutes

Does not include price per minute for gold rewords plan (excluding the $100)

so once u spend 100 dollars you price per minute will go down slightly

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DATA:

1 dollar a day (24 hours) all u can download

OR

Week Pass (7 days) * 100 MB * $10

Month Pass (30 days) * 300 MB * $30

Week Pass (7 days) * 1 GB * $50

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things to be forewarned of!

I had a new GF use up all my minutes one time before i knew this, JUST sending me Text Messages and i never even replied to her, i read her messages and called her:

T-Mobile Prepaid text messaging rate information

As a T-Mobile Prepaid customer, you are able to send and receive text messages to and from your phone. Text and instant messages are $0.10 each to send and $0.05 to receive in the US and Canada; $0.35 to send and $0.05 to receive everywhere else.