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Home Technology Cell Phones Prepaid Cellular Phone Plan: It's Pros and Cons
Prepaid Cellular Phone Plan: It's Pros and Cons PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alice Sy   
Wednesday, 06 August 2008 09:51
A prepaid cellular phone plan has the same features to other kinds of phone plans available in the market, except for the one and only factor which is the manner of paying the bills. A post paid plan requires you to pay after using phone services. In a prepaid plan, however, you get to pay in advance for the phone service before using it.
by AliceSy


A prepaid cellular phone plan has the same features to other kinds of phone plans available in the market, except for the one and only factor which is the manner of paying the bills. A post paid plan requires you to pay after using phone services. In a prepaid plan, however, you get to pay in advance for the phone service before using it.

Many consumers on a tight budget go for a prepaid cellular phone plan. This is practically due to the fact that a prepaid cellular phone plan saves money and limits credit by setting a limit to how much a consumer can spend or use.

How is this going to help a person with a small budget? The prepaid cellular phone plan doesn't let the consumer exceed the limits of his paid plan. Once he consumes all of his prepaid credit, he can no longer use the phone services. This has a huge effect on the discipline and spending willpower of the consumer.

Another thing that makes a prepaid cellular phone plan more budget-friendly is its hassle-free and no commitment state. The consumer is not obliged to pay a set amount of money per month unlike in post paid plans. Instead, the consumer pays only how much he plans to use. In post paid plans, there is a penalty when a consumer fails to meet the terms of the contract and thus will have to pay penalties and additional fees. In prepaid plans, there are no contracts whatsoever.

A prepaid cellular phone plan doesn't let you fall into a debt. The consumer is forced to pay ahead before availing phone services. There are phone service companies which sell convenient prepaid cards to numerous outlets. These outlets can easily be reached by consumers, such as malls and convenient stores.

With a prepaid cellular phone plan, there are no more hassles of using a cell phone. All you have to do is buy a cell phone unit and then purchase a prepaid card which will load your phone. The minutes of calls and the number of messages you can send depends on how much your prepaid credit is.

Prepaid cards can be purchased in various places offline. They can also be bought online in carrier websites and carrier stores. Prepaid cards have expiration dates when you load them into your phone. You have a number of days or weeks to use the load depending on the amount of the prepaid card you purchased.

A prepaid cellular phone plan may sound very convincing, but you should think hard first before choosing this over the post paid plan. In the long run, post paid plans give much bigger savings especially when it comes to calls. Post paid plans have lower call rates compared to prepaid plans.

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