Current deals for prepaid service?

In article <949db6a6-6be4-44b2-803a-90e1b39131d3.RemoveThis@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Gothkat <kitty.RemoveThis@gothkat.com> wrote:
>What's the best place to grab a SIM card for prepaid service in the US
>right now?
>
>I'm not in the country so I can't shop around

Many eBay sellers are willing to deal with offshore clients, and this is
certainly an easy way to pick up a T-Mobile SIM + minutes at a good price.
I've done this several times without incident.

Art

On Oct 27, 11:26 am, SMS <scharf.ste....RemoveThis@geemail.com> wrote:
> Gothkat wrote:
> > What's the best place to grab a SIM card for prepaid service in the US
> > right now?
>
> > I'm not in the country so I can't shop around.  Should I hit a retail
> > T-Mobile store?  Another retail chain?  Order online?
>
> "http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/Detail.aspx?class=prepaid&device=..."
>
> You can also get it at a T-Mobile store.
>
> Of course the best quality and least expensive prepaid service in the
> U.S. is on PagePlus, but you'd need a CDMA phone, or buy one from them.
>
> See "http://prepaiduswireless.com/".

What sold me on T-Mobile is that I can buy minutes online and that the
minutes stay good for a year as I'm not in the US real frequently, but
I wouldn't mind keeping the same phone number between trips.

I'll be in the US mainly on business and we have a number of T-Mobile
SIMs that we hand out to employees while they're roaming in the US,
some prepaid and some postpaid, but you get a different SIM every
time. I want a personal number separate from our business numbers so
that I don't get any embarrassing surprises when someone else has my
number a week later. Using the same company makes it easier to
expense the charges.

kitty.DeleteThis@gothkat.com (Gothkat) wrote in
news:2134baed-b65a-4cb4-ac2f-6f6ac2faf2e0@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com:

> What sold me on T-Mobile is that I can buy minutes online and that
> the minutes stay good for a year

.... once you've invested $100 and become a "gold" subscriber.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert.DeleteThis@iphouse.com

On Oct 28, 8:10 am, Bert Hyman <b... RemoveThis @iphouse.com> wrote:
> ki... RemoveThis @gothkat.com (Gothkat) wrote innews:2134baed-b65a-4cb4-ac2f-6f6ac2faf2e0@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com:
>
> > What sold me on T-Mobile is that I can buy minutes online and that
> > the minutes stay good for a year
>
> ... once you've invested $100 and become a "gold" subscriber.

$100 to get me started isn't a big deal this will pay for itself in my
first 100 minutes of airtime vs the cost of roaming plus with T-Mobile
I don't have to buy a new phone either.

On Oct 27, 10:26 am, SMS <scharf.ste....TakeThisOut@geemail.com> wrote:
> Gothkat wrote:
> > What's the best place to grab a SIM card for prepaid service in the US
> > right now?
>
> > I'm not in the country so I can't shop around. Should I hit a retail
> > T-Mobile store? Another retail chain? Order online?
>
> "http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/Detail.aspx?class=prepaid&device=..."
>
> You can also get it at a T-Mobile store.
>
> Of course the best quality and least expensive prepaid service in the
> U.S. is on PagePlus, but you'd need a CDMA phone, or buy one from them.
>
> See "http://prepaiduswireless.com/".

Best is all subjective. If you are in an area with good coverage T-
Mobile service cannot be beat if you are a gold rewards subscriber.

On Oct 31, 10:05 am, weekilter <weekil... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> Best is all subjective.  If you are in an area with good coverage T-
> Mobile service cannot be beat if you are a gold rewards subscriber.

I've already decided on T-Mobile, and confirmed coverage where I
expect to be traveling. At this point I am just looking for where to
get a prepaid SIM.

At 03 Nov 2008 02:07:02 -0800 Gothkat wrote:
> On Oct 31, 10:05 am, weekilter <weekil....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Best is all subjective.  If you are in an area with good coverage T-
> > Mobile service cannot be beat if you are a gold rewards subscriber..
>
> I've already decided on T-Mobile, and confirmed coverage where I
> expect to be traveling. At this point I am just looking for where to
> get a prepaid SIM.


They're all over eBay cheap enough, or you could wait for Taget stores to
run another special- occasionally they bundle a free low-end phone with a
$100 airtime card purchase. Obviously the "free" phone includes the SIM,
and you have a backup phone in case something happens.

If you're in a hurry, T-Mobile.com sells them for $7, or you could probably
sweet talk a local T-Mo store to give you one if you buy a $100 airtime
card there.

On Nov 3, 6:22 am, Todd Allcock <eleccon....DeleteThis@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
> At 03 Nov 2008 02:07:02 -0800 Gothkat wrote:
>
> > On Oct 31, 10:05 am, weekilter <weekil....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Best is all subjective.  If you are in an area with good coverage T-
> > > Mobile service cannot be beat if you are a gold rewards subscriber.
>
> > I've already decided on T-Mobile, and confirmed coverage where I
> > expect to be traveling. At this point I am just looking for where to
> > get a prepaid SIM.
>
> They're all over eBay cheap enough, or you could wait for Taget stores to
> run another special- occasionally they bundle a free low-end phone with a
> $100 airtime card purchase.  Obviously the "free" phone includes the SIM,
> and you have a backup phone in case something happens.
>
> If you're in a hurry, T-Mobile.com sells them for $7, or you could probably
> sweet talk a local T-Mo store to give you one if you buy a $100 airtime
> card there.

Dropping $100 on a card isn't a problem so I'll probably just aim for
a corporate store. Thanks!

weekilter wrote:

>> See "http://prepaiduswireless.com/".
>
> Best is all subjective. If you are in an area with good coverage T-
> Mobile service cannot be beat if you are a gold rewards subscriber.

Yes, I was referring only to coverage and price per minute. I don't have
T-Mobile service where I live in Silicon Valley, though they have
finally been approved for a site not far from me (only took eight years,
it was Pacific Bell Wireless that initially started the process!).

Many of the places I go don't have any GSM service, let alone T-Mobile
prepaid. I do have two T-Mobile prepaid SIM cards because I bought some
quad band prepaid phones to have unlocked for traveling to Asia.