T-Mobile To Go<\/a>.\u00a0 There you buy a SIM card that you can plug into any (unlocked) GSM phone and you buy minutes in advance that are credited to that card.\u00a0 For $100 T-Mobile will give you 1000 minutes that will last up to a year.\u00a0 If at the end of the year you haven’t used them all you can spend as little as $10 to buy more minutes and your entire balance will carry over for another year.<\/p>\nNot only can\u00a0you buy this service without the hassles of a credit check, but you also enjoy\u00a0freedom from any future bills or charges.\u00a0 If you don’t want or need the service you can just throw away your card, or\u00a0sell it with its\u00a0balance to somebody else.\u00a0 Be aware that the cheapest 2-year cell contract will probably cost a total of $700 (hard to tell with all the taxes and surcharges they keep adding — not to mention the billing errors that always seem to be in the phone company’s favor).\u00a0 In contrast you can keep T-Mobile To Go for 2 years for just $110 plus sales tax.\u00a0 And in my three years with this service I haven’t had any unpleasant surprises.<\/p>\n
The best way I found\u00a0to buy T-Mobile To Go is at Costco, where last week I got an activated SIM card and<\/em> a\u00a0current-generation slim Samsung t219 phone for just $20 after rebate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you don’t use a lot of cell phone minutes then you probably shouldn’t enter into a service contract.\u00a0 Too many people commit to spending $30 or more per month (plus inscrutable taxes) just so they can make an occasional, “I’m running late,” or, “I’m over here” call. The best alternative is a\u00a0prepaid cell service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-services","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po3d1-J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}