T-Mobile Prepaid $50 Refill Card

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T-Mobile Prepaid $50 Refill Card

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Good For Some, Bad For Others

Recently, my parents turned off my Nextel service because I had a 400 dollar bill. Obviously, I talk a lot. Going weeks without a cell phone led me to buy myself a t-mobiel prepaid phone. i bought the motorola V300 camera flip phone and a 10 and 50 dollar card, along with the intial 15 dollars included with the purchase of the phone. I solely bought a prepaid phone because I am 16 and I can not sign up for a monthly plan.

However, after two weeks of talking on my phone I had already used the majority of my initial purchase. What I'm trying to articulate is that prepaid phones are extremely expensive for anyone who talks a lot.

Anyways, I am very happy with my v300, it's a wonderful camera phone and there are many ways to personalize it. However, TMobile charges for text and picture messages and internet, where as Nextel did not.

In total, I am relatively happy with my prepaid plan but very unhappy at how utterly poor I have become.

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Stay away from T-Mobile! Sprint PCS is way better!

A year or so ago I switched from Sprint to T-Mobile, because I was offered a free phone and three months of free service. I ended up regretting that decision. T-Mobile's coverage is small compared to other companies. Their GSM network while having the advantage of being able to swap phones pretty easily due to their use of a SIM card, does not provide as good of call quality, privacy, signal strength, ect as Sprints CDMA. CDMA being the best wireless network technology, do a search on Google and read why. And soon the advantage of GSM's SIM card will not only be a GSM advantage. CDMA carriers are working on phasing in R-UIM cards. So CDMA user will also be able to swap out a card from one phone and put it into another.

Also, T-Mobile had a roaming partner in Cingular, but since Cingular is buying AT&T wireless, that contract has been canceled. So this just adds another fault to T-Mobiles service. While on the other hand, Sprint PCS has a roaming agreement with most of the wireless carriers, so their coverage spans almost the whole USA. Plus if you pay the extra $5.00 a month for Sprints Free & clean plan, you get to roam for free. Just has long as less then half of your minutes are roaming. No other wireless carrier gives you that. Except for T-Mobile, but as I mentioned their roaming partners list is becoming less and less. Plus Sprint PCS uses GPS to track 911 phone calls, which is something most of the other carriers are unable, or unwilling to do at this time. So that is a huge plus for anyone that travels a lot and does not always know where they are exactly (Which is me most of the time).

I recently paid the $200 dollar early termination fee so I can end my current T-Mobile contract, so I can get back with the wireless service that I had NO problems with, Sprint PCS. It is not worth any of the gifts and deals that T-Mobile offered me to stay with them. Sprint PCS is the wireless service that I will stay with for the rest of my life.

Lastly, before you lock into any wireless contract, research the companies first. Some wireless carriers might seem like they are offering you great deals, but their is always a catch. I only recommend Sprint PCS, because I have used other carriers and have found Sprint to be the best one for me. But just make sure you investigate the wireless companies first, so you don't end up paying the $200 early termination fee to end a contract. That $200 dollar fee is so wrong to charge. Why should people have to pay money to end a contract with a company whose service has gone down hill?!
For me, that $200 dollars could have been used to buy a new big screen TV or an XBOX!! I hate you T-Mobile!!

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60 days? My refills are good for a year.

I don't know if this is a targeted customer retention incentive for low-usage customers, or other special circumstance or if the change is for all customers, but since December '03, I've found that T-Mobile's customer service indicates that my minutes (bought in $50 increments) are good for 1 year - not the 60 days stated online and on the card. Again, I'm not trying to say that this will be the case for someone else, but it might be worth asking T-Mobile.

On the negative side, I can't reach that Gold Rewards level because I'm not buying a new card every three months. For me, it's more like every six, which is fine - in fact, the best deal I know of for cell users who really only need about 10 minutes a week. Obviously not such a great deal for hardcore mobile chatters, but worth the 5 stars on a cost basis if you need just a little more than what an "emergency phone" provides.