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RE: Phones and data plans was RE: Digital voice recorder is priceless
Subject:RE: Phones and data plans was RE: Digital voice recorder is priceless From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:James Leatherwood <JLeatherwood -at- aflac -dot- com>, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:16:45 -0800
James Leatherwood wrote:
> Check out T-Mobile, or even Verizon's prepaid plans. You'll pay more
> for the phone (often full, unsubsidized price), but I've seen unlimited
> data for $50/month. That $450 phone would be paid for in 9 months of
> $100 bills, then your bill drops to $50 - saving you $750ish.
I've seen a number of recommendations for Straight Talk (www.straighttalk.com). Android phones run from about $150-$350, and $45/month gets you unlimited talk, text, and data.
Even cheaper, if spend most of your time in places with wi-fi and you can live with one of the two phones currently available, is Republic Wireless (republicwireless.com). It's a unique new "Hybrid Calling" technology -- the phone preferentially uses wi-fi instead of the Sprint cellular network whenever the former is available. $19/month, unlimited, with just one catch: if you spend too much time using the cellular network instead of wi-fi (IIRC, too much is ~500 minutes/month). I'm seriously considering this one.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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