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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | We have Verizon and even with our business discount, I get depressed looking at our phone bill and knowing that I could literally afford t0 board another horse with that money.
I figured I'd ask on here since many of you are like me and live more rural areas, that don't get the cell coverage that others do. Are any of the no-contract phones (tracfone, straight talk, etc) any good? I'd probably keep my ipad with 4g since it's cheap and lumped into the plan my husband and I share w/ the rest of my family. So we don't need anything fancy with the phones. Heck I'd consider going back to a dumb phone. Just as long as we can get reliable service.
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Location: mi | At Christmas I switched from Spring to Cricket (at&T towers). It actually works much better and is way cheaper. I have 3 lines. One line has a hotspot and its $100 a month for "unlimited" I put that in quotes because it slows you down when you reach 22G (per line). and the hotspot is only good for I think 8 or 10g. The most I have used is 16 on my phone so not even really that close so I am not worried about it.
You do need to buy your own phone and if you break it your buying another no upgrades. I bought my old iphone from sprint. They will be paid for at the price I was leasing them at in May and every month they live after that I am saving $75 a month and have more data available. I only had 4g total of data with sprint....
So I recommend it if you are not crazy with your phones and can live with older phones. as they age. |
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  More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Love Straighttalk |
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Go Get Em!
Posts: 13503
Location: OH. IO | CYA Ranch - 2018-03-02 10:15 AM
Love Straighttalk
MEEE TOOOOOOOO |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 612
| We had a Tracfone for my son. It worked decently for him, but he did not have a smartphone and only did limited texting. You would have to look at their information to see how expensive that it was when you started using data. The coverage seemed decent though. |
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Regular
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| Moved to Cricket.
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 695
Location: Windoming | We've used Tracfone for years. Ever since I got slapped with an outrageous cell phone bill. Works great for us, we love it. (Wyoming) |
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Regular
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| Straighttalk is great!! |
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 Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Tracphone owns Straight Talk and Verizon. They all use the same towers. |
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 Sock eating dog owner
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | I have a galaxcy s5, a verizon phone. you can get a card at walmart and have straight talk.they use verizon towers.Google your phone and see if it us compatible for the card with straight talk. no contract. I am out in the middle of no where and get service. have them set up your phone while your in town or they will have difficulty.Be sure you have a CDMA phone and not a GSM. These determine if you are able to have cell phone service or not due to frequency.I would purchase a phone off www.ebay.com or amazon if yours isn't compatable. |
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Veteran
Posts: 150
| Been on straight talk for 7+ years. Will not change for anything! I watch wal- mart at Black Friday time and have been able to upgrade my phone for a reasonable cost. If you’re not worried about latest greatest phones it’s reasonable plan. I’ve had great luck with the customer service the few times I’ve used it. I don’t understand why everyone is on a straight talk or cricket service. Much less BS from them!! |
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 Brains Behind the Operation...
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Location: Arizona | I've had a Straight Talk phone for 7 years now. As someone already mentioned, they use Verizon's towers - so anywhere covered by Verizon will also be covered by Straight Talk. I have the $55 plan, love it! I was with T-Mobile for over 10 years, but will never go back to a contracted phone plan now.
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 Saint Stacey
| You need to ask what system your phone runs on before assuming it’s compatible with the new provider. A phone with a SIM card runs on a GSM system. But some systems don’t use SIM cards and run off of a GSMD system instead. So don’t assume you can transfer your expensive smart phone without first verifying it.
You also need to find out if the provider uses its own towers or if it can ping off of other towers when you are out of network. I worked for Iwireless which ran off of the Sprint network. But they only had Sprint. Sprint, on the other hand contracts with other providers so they have much wider coverage than my company did that just contracted with Sprint only. |
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 Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | I have AT&T's no contract service but I'm very seriously considering switching to Cricket. They use the same towers as AT&T and you get more data at a lower price. |
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