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New T-Mobile To Go or another plan?

Mar 23, 2005 6:07AM PST

I've been looking to get a phone for convenience. I'm not one who chats on the phone all the time. I was about to buy a phone from Virgin Mobile, but I just saw the T-Mobile To Go rates here,

http://www.t-mobile.com/prepaid/rates.asp

One option T-Mobile has is: $100 refill card gets 1000 Whenever Minutes and its Expiration is 365 days.

Isn't that better than all the other prepaid plans? Am I doing my "math" right?

Also I've compared several plans. Aren't the features like voicemail, caller ID, text message, and Roaming the same on Boost, Virgin, T-Mobile, and etc prepaid plans?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

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T-Mobile
Mar 23, 2005 10:56AM PST

Yes, I have prepaid with T-Mobile as well and if you stay near the major cities you should have no problems.
There customer service is also very good . In fact in a recent Consumer Reports survey they are second only to Verizon Wireless. You can't go wrong on there prepaid price as well 1000 minutes good for 365 days . That makes for about 83 minutes a month for 12 months . That will include caller ID voicemail ect. ect. Coverage area is pretty good as well [National] I've had good luck with it.
Pete.

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New T-Mobile To Go or another plan?
Mar 23, 2005 10:58AM PST

If T-Mobile covers your area well, and don't travel much, it might be a good deal. If you travel a lot, those minutes eat away quick if you roam, as pre-paid requires being on the network to avoid roaming charges.

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Roaming Question
Mar 23, 2005 11:40PM PST

Would you know anything about the Roaming on the T-Mobile prepaid plan?

http://www.t-mobile.com/prepaid/overview.asp

Their website says that it has "National roaming on the T-Mobile USA network." Does this mean I can make calls anywhere on the coverage area?

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Roaming Question
Mar 24, 2005 10:33AM PST

As long as the roaming indicator doesn't light up, you're on T-Mobile's network. So yes, you can travel anywhere that shows coverage. If you were on a contract for nationwide service, then you could roam on other carriers' networks without roaming charges. But pre-paid doesn't allow that luxury. Just the T-Mobile network itself.

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If I'm correct
Mar 24, 2005 12:08PM PST

If I'm correct, when you roam, you use two units per minute instead of one. This is where you use up your minutes fast, especially when you are in an area where you lose T-Mobiles network and end up on another one.

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Tmobile you should get
Apr 13, 2005 11:44AM PDT

You should get T-mobile or Virgin Mobile but get Virgin MObile but whichever one you pick better choice T-mobile call me (313)729-8496

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I went with T-Mobile
Apr 15, 2005 12:04AM PDT

I ended up going with T-Mobile and it seems to be good. I get about 4 out of 5 bars at my house and full bars on campus, but traveling from place to place it sometimes drops to 2-3 bars. I guess it all depends on where your at.

Overall I feel very satisfied though. Hopefully T-Mobile will only get better.

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Re
Apr 16, 2005 1:48AM PDT

T-Mobiles COverage is the United States excluding alaska I beleive unless that changed. The service you should see is very clean. If you get signal it should be crystal, if you are weak on signal 1 or less bars it gets rough.

if you need a basic map here you go

http://www.t-mobile.com/prepaid/coverage.asp

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T-Mobile is great
Apr 19, 2005 9:34AM PDT

The best thing about T-Mobile's prepaid services are that for younger people who haven't had the chance to gain credit (which would prevent you from getting accepted to a carrier) you can switch to an actual plan. So, if you keep your prepaid for a year, you can easily be accepted to an actual T-Mobile plan