You'll be happy to know that I've ordered a cellphone online from T-Mobile.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Prepaid and I'm going ro go with "pay-as-you-go" -- instead of their lowest "monthly
plan", which is still $30/mo, I'm going to purchase 1000 minutes for $100 -- and they're
good for a year (it's a plain talk/text phone -- no Intertubes connectivity).
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It'll come in sometime this week. I'll try to remember to report in and let you all know
whether I'm ultimately happy with my choice or not.
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[NYC_SKP]

1. Sweet!

[AsahinaKimi]

2. I have T-mobile.

[LiberalEsto]

3. I am so relieved

My brother has something similar.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear MiddleFingerMom!

I am thrilled to hear this!

I am sure you will find this endlessly useful...

It's a huge step towards your very important safety!

[Wounded Bear]

5. Hear! Hear!

Peggy is right. At our age (well, my age, anyway), having a cell phone is nearly essential as an important lifeline in emergencies. Given your recent medical trials, I'd say this is a great move for you.

[Kali]

9. useful for being a total PITA to me!

(first thing he will do is call me at some inconvenient time and giggle over my discomfort)

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. Oh, you'll talk.

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Hello, Hello, Hello, How Low
Hello, Hello, Hello, How Low
Hello, Hello, Hello, How Low
Hello, Hello, Hello

With a cellphone, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
3 AM now... it's outrageous
Here we are now, entertain us
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You'll talk alright, Missy!!!
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[Kali]

13. thank goodness I am always leaving it somewhere

also it has an OFF button MWAHAHAHAHAHHA


AND...there is the fact that you tend to lose things (nevermind getting the number wrong hahahaha)

[RebelOne]

6. I have Great Call and only pay $22 a month.

No bells and whistles, just straight incoming and outgoing calls. It is the Jitterbug phone. And I am very happy with it.

[rrneck]

7. Good idea...

just don't call every quick stop in town asking them if they have Prince Albert in the can.

[rug]

8. Does that include gas?

[csziggy]

10. So when can we give out your number to teh nice Indian guys at

Microsoft Security Services?

[olddots]

11. keep us posted on T-mobile customer relations

Verizon is very caring if you spend 300$ a month an buy all the latest toys .

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. I worked for about 5 years at a Verizon call center,

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They ARE pretty customer-conscious, even without a buncha purchases.
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I think the philosophy now is there are no new customers for new service
(except for ME), so customer retention (and seduction away from other
carriers) is key.
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[winter is coming]

15. That's what I use and it's worked well for me.

I don't use my cell that often, but it's nice to have. And once you're at the Gold level (that's the level you get with the $100 bucket of minutes), if you're nowhere near using your 1000 minutes at the end of a year, you can add a much smaller amount of minutes -- say $15 or $30 worth -- and all your minutes will roll over for another entire year.

[Ron Obvious]

16. We just switched over to the same plan

Our bills were getting close to $100 a month, and we had one scary $530 monthly bill when we were in Europe.

Prepaid is the way to go anyway. After 2 months I still have a nearly $90 balance on it.

10 cents per minute, and 10 cents per SMS is pretty reasonable, really. Shame about losing the unlimited dataplan, but I wasn't using it much anyway.

[texanwitch]

17. Good luck with tmobile.

I just changed from them to Boost.

A nice smart phone, no contract.

T-mobile and I have parted ways.

It was not pretty.

Good you don't have a contract with them.