Re: Temporary cell phone?

From: Jason Bleazard (dml@bleazard.net)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2006 - 15:40:40 EDT


On Wed, July 5, 2006 3:16 pm, jon@dakota-truck.net said:
>
> I was going to suggest getting a tracphone or something like that at
> Wal-Mart, but then of course you'd have to buy the phone which you don't
> want to do.

Unless they're cheap. Most of the pre-paid phones I've seen are something
like $150 to buy the phone, but it's been a while since I looked.

I'm pretty sure old phones that people have sitting in their drawer can be set
up on pre-paid accounts, which avoids buying the phone. Seems like they
should be able to set mine up with a different SIM card pretty easily.
Unfortunately, "pretty easily" from a technological point of view usually
doesn't fit with "pretty easily" from a marketing point of view.

Hmmm... I just now remembered that we still have Norah's old phone sitting on
a shelf collecting dust. I gave mine away, but haven't gotten around to
giving hers away yet. I wonder if I can just get a pre-paid card for that.

Next question... who are the major cell phone carriers in Colorado? I'm
guessing Verizion, who else?

> Only things I can think of are to call your existing cell
> phone provider if they are an outfit that has a presence in the US to
> see if anything can be done,

It's a company called Primus, I think their owners are in VA on paper but they
don't have any US presence I'm aware of at the consumer level. This business
stuff makes my head hurt.

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