As I’m sure you’ve guessed, if you can answer any of these questions yes, read on!
Here are some points to consider:
Many schools do not allow you to bring a phone to school.
You may want to limit placing and receiving calls?
You may want to control who can call the phone as well as who can be called with the phone.
If controlling your budget is important, there are phone plans with prepaid minutes so your kids can’t go over.
In one category there are cell phone providers (or carriers) with
specialty phones and special plans.
Let’s look at each category.
The options are more limited.
99 and the phone plan is a pay-as-you-go rate plant(more or this later).
Airtime minutes expire 90 days from purchase.
Enter phone numbers that can be called anytime and phone numbers that can only be called during permission-based times.
Send your child a reminder message.
Firefly
The Firefly phone is priced at $79.
Fireflymobile minutes are priced at $0.
The minutes expire in 90 days.
The Firefly phone is also available through partner wireless carriers,
who offer their own wireless service and plans.
The phone will will initially be distributed by Wynit. 95, and fixed-usage Wherify Family Locator Service plans that include both voice and location services start at just $19.
The competitively priced, all-inclusive service plans are straightforward and easy to understand, and there are no hidden costs for additional required services, so parents always know exactly what to expect.
In the regular category you will many providers (or carriers) with many options but most all of the providers (or carriers) will give you a choice of prepaid (pay-as-you-go) or a monthly plan, so we can consider prepaid and monthly as two subcategories of this category.
You may be able to “bring-your-own-phone” and avoid a contractual committment, or you may not.
Many providers (or carriers) have family plans that let you add on new phones at monthly costs much lower than their standard rate. In this situation your add-on phone can cost about the same as a regular
minimum-priced plan.
Unfortunately the way these plans are implemented often include extra
costs or hidden costs. Watch out for the incredible, shrinking, vanishing, expiring minutes!
We mentioned these already.
Look for these plans.
Beware the dreaded daily charge!
Some plans charge a daily fee for the first call each day.
So how can you avoid busting your budget?
And by the way, what’s that big secret?
Well many phones sold on regular plans such as the Nokia and Motorola
have options to restrict incoming and outgoing calls.
It is usually tied to the address book and set with a password to
allow only selected incoming calls or outgoing calls from numbers that are in the address book.
Check out your existing phone for this feature.
So whether you use a prepaid (pay-as-you-go) plan or a regular monthly plan,you can control your costs and get the maximum benefit from your cell phone.
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September 2nd, 2011
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