cell phones

[crown]

 looking to get a cell phone i can use when i am bussin in the usa. is there a pay as you use plan ?. can i say get a phone to use
for 30 days ?. go home then use on next trip ?. need help / imfo as planing another  trip in aprail thanks john

[ruthi]

Dont know if you have heard of Straight talk. You can get it at walmart or online. A plus right now is if you get a phone online, they have a couple of phones on there that are free when you purchase a months service. There is a 30 dollar service and a 45 dollar service. 30 gets you 1000 minutes, text, pics, 411, etc.  45 gets unlimited everything. You just activate it when you want to use it and pay for a months service. They use the same towers as verizon, so, they have the best coverage out there. Web address..........straighttalk.com

[robertglines1]

Palmetto cove?  as to phone Ruthie covered it all

[luvrbus]

GO Phones pay as you go all Dollar Stores have those it uses AT&T when I drop my phone or break mine I pay 10 bucks for their plan and a phone use the minutes install my sims card good to go again for a while lol

[eddiepotts]

I have Verizon. I called when I went to Mexico and it only cost me $5 per phone to use it down there. I called and had it done just for the month.

[crown]

hi rutti can you send me the web link thanks john

[crown]

luvrbus does dollor store sell the phone ? and where do you get the sims card ? thanks john

[white-eagle]

john, i would just stay close to jack.  then you can stay free and use his phone 

[justin25taylor]

luvrbus does dollor store sell the phone ? and where do you get the sims card ? thanks john

I know I am not Clifford, but I cannot resist the urge to chime in anyway.

Clifford, like me probobly has a "regular" At&T phone and service plan. If you loose or break your phone and your contract is not eligible for an upgrade, AT&T will hit you hard for a replacement handset.
You can buy a "Go Phone" starter kit almost anywhere. It comes with a few prepaid minutes. After you use them, provided you have not lost your old phone you just pop the sim card from you old phone into the new one. It works without doing anything else. Your number stays the same and all that jazz.
I also "save" my contact list to the sim card. When I get a new phone I use the same sim and all my numbers are still in the phone.
We all know the worst part of having a phone go down is the process of rebuilding all the lost contacts.

If you loose your phone, you can still use the go phone and just drop by an AT&T store and they will give you a sim card that has your account on it. No muss, no fuss.

This is debatable as most things are, but AT&T service works in 99% of the places I travel. I run all over the country and Canada and almost always have service.

If you happen to travel overseas you can buy a Pre-paid sim card to use in that country and save paying high per minute fees from AT&T also.

Hope this helps.
Justin

[crown]

so can i bring my costa rica cel phone ? and buy a pre paid sims card ? and if so what phone # would i have as my costa rica #
is 8 dights one area code for whole county but 8 dights phone #. mostly want a cel phone in case we brake down or get lost ect
thanks

[Gary W]

John when I travel in USA I use Tracfone, you can buy them at walmart. It is a pay as you go plan. Here is the link to there web site. http://www.tracfone.com/


Gary

[PP]

John, Gary W beat me to it, but I've used the Tracphone. They're less than 10 bucks for the phone and you can buy as few as 200 minutes for 20 bucks and that gives you 90 days of service. If you call alot, there are less expensive similar plans but Trac seems to be everywhere. Good luck, Will

[ruthi]

Address i ...........WWW.straighttalk.com. Best deal around for good service.

[daveola]

so can i bring my costa rica cel phone ? and buy a pre paid sims card ?

If your phone uses sim cards and is unlocked (which is generally the case outside the US) then you can get prepaid sim cards here and get a US number (+1 then 3 digit area code and 7 digit number).

Prepaid sim cards are nowhere near as easy to find in the US as in most of the rest of the world though.

[crown]

  thanks boys & girls for all the great imfo right now looks like tracvision has the best deal but still checking thanks again john / lidia