Cell phone minute overload

[djf]

OK, I have a cell phone even though I basically detest them, a necessary evil I suppose.

I used to have T-Mobile, but whatever backbone they were on, I got crap reception in my living room. I could walk out into my front yard in the rain and get five bars, but almost zilch in my house.

So I dumped them and lost a bunch of minutes, switched to Net10. Different carrier. Xlent signal in my house and all around.

With Net10 you buy Minutes AND service days. You can't, afaik, buy just one or the other.

I use it very rarely, and have it with me when I drive, have it for emergencies, that sort of thing.

As a result, I got TONS of unused minutes. Minutes up the wazoo!

I would like to keep the phone and the carrier (Net10) but DONATE the minutes to someone who might need/use them, in particular service people or their families, or veterans.

Has anyone heard of such a thing? I called Net10 and they were somewhat ambiguous about transferring the minutes to another phone, I'm not sure if it means the phone number has to be transferred with the minutes, or how it works exactly.

Seems to me it would be a simple accounting entry. If anyone has heard of a project or plan that helps you do this, please let me know!

[cotton]

My net ten phone has 9987 minutes left and I have 115 service days. I use about 10 minutes a month. I buy 6 months service with 1500 minutes for $100. That’s about $17 a month just in case I hit another deer. Earlier this year I was able to transfer about 9000 unused minutes (that I had racked up in addition to the almost ten thousand I have already noted above)to a new phone for my husband but he never used it and is now out of service days. I am not going to buy him more service days and we will waste all those minutes worth ten cents each.

[goron]

I had Verizon @ $88/mo for 5 years and found it to be a huge rip-off. I'm paying 39/mo unlimited with T-mobile (walmart version), and was out in the boonies today, middle of the desert, playing internet radio all day.


Click HERE to view the coverage map

[EternalVigilance]

I’m only paying six bucks a month more than you with the Verizon straight talk phone, and looking at the map you provided it wouldn’t be wise to switch. Huge gaps in the coverage where I live.

[goron]

Where’s your RF Verizon map? I’d bet it looks like swiss cheese too. Put your money where your mouth is. $6 a month = a million bucks in mutual funds at retirement.

[EternalVigilance]

No swiss cheese in my state at all. Virtually one hundred percent covered.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/support/coverage-locator

[goron]

Only one dot in my state. Big whoopdedoo. Since I’ve now had them both; one major thing I did notice about Verizon vs. T-moble is the salespeople with Verizon, without fail, every single time I’ve been in their stores have the worst breath! Not so with T-mobile salespeople I’ve spoken to. If Verizon is so superior, perhaps they should offer dental insurance to their sales employees (or big bowls of free Verizon breath mints).

[EternalVigilance]

Oh my. Bad breath even.

With StraightTalk you don’t have to deal with Verizon salespeople at all. No contract. Just pay the monthly fee at Walmart or online.

[goron]

You haven't tried T-mobile; I've tried both. With Verizon, I experienced 5 years of dropped calls, sometimes the phone would ring, and sometimes not, texts would funnel through the NEXT DAY all at once, and those non-stop 'Your Bill Is Ready!" Texts would appear, even after 3 calls to CS, and their agreement to stop the texting. Smelly and arrogant staff at the Verizon store, as if they were so superior because they _thought_ their network was 'faster', I should just stand there and smell their bogality.

With T-mobile NO DROPPED CALLS, Texts arrive when they are sent, internet radio plays in places Verizon did not have a signal, and it is less expensive. Your phone works with Verizon, period. My T-mobile phone can work with AT&T and other GSM networks if I want to change carriers.

Take it from a certified Goron™ ; T-Mobile is superior to Verizon in every way. Don't be fooled by bogus maps and arrogant sales staff. Anyone foolish enough to buy into the Verizon lie, deserves to pay more per month, have their calls and data funneled to the 'en ess ay' without consent, and stay locked into the Verizon zombie cult forever!