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» Mechanics Jim Carson: Three standard deviations from the mean — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:21:31 +0000

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By: jim

jim — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:42:03 +0000

I’m two-months into the pay-as-I-go plan for both lines and haven’t noticed any decline in service. By the end of next month, I will have broken even. The rest of the year is pure savings!

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:30:46 +0000

All you guys are such smart shoppers! The cell phone company marketing guys saw me coming, because we have the uber-data shared plan with a bazillion minutes, gps, internet access, email, and the kitchen sink. I like toys, what can I say?

My ringer is “Tubular Bells”, aka the theme from the Exorcist.
When Terri calls, it rings like an old-time regular telephone.
Voice Mail is “This is Sparta!” from 300.
Text Message is Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Cromwell getting an arrow to the chest and saying “Message for you, sir”.

By: Grendel

Grendel — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:53:14 +0000

My phone plays the theme to Law and Order when my wife calls. 1993 MIDI technology or not, it works for me.

By: woodstock

woodstock — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:58:58 +0000

Pre-paid is definitely the way to go if you’re low talkers, as we are at our house; we talk so little we’re still on the minute-by-minute plan which means we’re paying $20/3 months (aka: $120 per year). FWIW, my aunt has a family plan with four lines and unlimited text and I think they’re paying upwards of $300/month.

Even on pre-paid you can still get the fancy phone (Virgin Mobile offers ones that will play “real music” ring tones though why I’d want to pay $3 for a snippet of “Umbrella” (seriously, did that song have any other words?) I don’t know) even without the fancy plan.

By: Scout

Scout — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:08:47 +0000

Both the husband and I use Virgin Mobile’s prepaid plans. We talk a bit more than you, mostly because we have no home line, but still not enough to warrant the huge expense of a regular plan (or even a family plan). After shopping around, we settled on Virgin because we seemed to get more minutes for our money.

Currently, we each pay 30$ a month for 200 anytime minutes, 500 nights/weekend minutes, and 1000 (!!) texts. Though we don’t get close to those minutes (except when my mom is feeling chatty), and nowhere near that many texts, it leaves us feeling better than a major cell company’s mandatory fees and charges, which always added up to more than 45$ a month each. Also, there are no fees for going over our minutes, and (in the rare event that happened), we could simply start a new month early. I like it, and find it the most sensible.

Also, FWIW, when said husband calls, my phone plays Pink Floyd. Just ’cause it’s his favorite band, tho; not because he don’t need no more education.

xox.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:37:46 +0000

Please, sir. The song to which you are referring is “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-A-Lot, a Seattle musician. MC Hammer! An outrage!