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How Does A Prepaid Cell Phone Work?

I want to get a prepaid cell phone, but dont know how they work. Is it like u get a certian amount of minutes then you throw it away after that? What is a prepaid cell phone?

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National Healthcare Insurance Plan July 22, 2009 at 7:22 pm: A Prepaid Cell Phone is a service in which you are limited to the number of minutes depending on the one-time plan you paid for. While signing up with a cell phone company means you have a contract with that company and pay several different fees to cover your calltime minutes, Prepaid does not provide fees other than the connection fee and airtime minutes, thus a little cheaper. And because there’s no contract, you can discontinue your service without having to pay a termination fee. However, once you activated your Prepaid account, you are given a set amount of time to use up your minutes before you are disconnected and get a new one. For example, Cingular Wireless’s $15 prepaid plan gives you a time limit of 1 month to use up your $15 worth of minutes on your phone before renewing. And if there’s any minutes left once your time is up, they are discarded with no rollover.
Many people prefer the contract service mainly because you have more minutes to use and little worry for renewal. If you can’t afford the service fee, or you are not going to use your phone often, Prepaid is the best plan.
P Tear Griffin July 23, 2009 at 12:05 am: First, you buy the phone, then, depending on your carrier, you can buy different amounts of minute cards such as 30 minutes. after you talk for 30 minutes, you have to buy a new card at like target or someplace like that. The card looks like a credit card.
IdesOfMa July 23, 2009 at 6:44 am: Prepaid cell’s work after you purchase the phone…Most companies will give you a few minutes when you purchase your phone so you can tell if it’s activated. You don’t throw the phone away…you just buy more minutes…….I like Trak fones…..Enjoy..Check out prepaid phones online…..
hjbergel July 23, 2009 at 8:36 am: With a prepaid cell phone you buy the phone and you buy time in the form of cards that they sell in stores that has a phone number on it along with a code,you call the number give them the code number and they charge the amount that the card is worth to your phone and you use it like a regular cell phone until the time is used up and then you have to buy more time.