If I only want a cell phone for the travel emergencies, what is the most cost effective program?

Question

I do not want a daily or monthly rate.

Answer 1

Any unactivated cell phone is able to dial 911 so if you only want one for true emergencies, just pick up someone's old one they just replaced. Look on your local Freecycle group at http://www.freecycle.org/ Chances are there's someone near you who will give you their old phone for free. If you don't see a cell phone on there, post saying you're looking for one and you'll get a response. Free phone, free service. Can't beat that!

If you want to call others in an emergency and would use it occasionally, you might want to look at T-Mobile To Go. There's no contract; it's pay as you go. You get a phone for as little as $20 (or for free after $20 rebate from Dealking.com) and you pay $100 for one year of service. You get 1,000 minutes to use for the year, which is decent if you do a little bit of talking.

http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/default.aspx?plancategory=4

If you really would hardly ever, ever use any minutes a better deal yet would be with Alltel U prepaid wireless, if available in your area. Again, no contract, no credit check, all prepaid. There is an activation fee of $35. Your first airtime card you must purchase is $20. What's so great about this? As long as you make one billable call every 30 days, that $20 will never expire. Calls are 15 cents per minute. So what you do is you make one one minute call every 30 days and that $20 card will last you years! What happens if you go over 30 days accidentally? They deduct $4 out of your account. If you will very rarely use a phone, this is definitely the most cost effective way to go about it. Even if you use your phone sometimes, 15 cents a minute is a pretty good prepaid rate. You can always buy more airtime. Phones start at $20.

http://www.alltelu.com/pay-per-minute.jsp

Answer 2

very great to verify and also a truth. Jazakallah Khyr. Then what is going to we are saying for the cellular telephone growing to be both. A cellular telephone besides as Quran at the same time. I were given in my pocket computer, digital Quran in it. It jogs my memory my prayer time appropriately. It wakes me up for Fajr, It has a huge Islamic library of books as e-readers. It acts as a walkman for listening to Holy Quran. It supplies me guidelines for Qibla whereever i'm (utilizing GPS).... i imagine it truly is wonderful, turning technologies to Islamic.

Answer 3

I would look into the "Pay as you go" phones. I believe Cingular has them, but I'm not sure... They do have phones like that though. I hope this helped! Good Luck!

Answer 4

Use a pre-paid phone. GO phones from Cingular work really well.

Answer 5

Prepaid phones would definitely be the answer