>Reading today's paper, I just found the wireless carrier I will NOT be signing up with under any circumstances: T-Mobile.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-problem_sprayjun25,0,5222474.columnI got the cheapest $20 Motorola from Walmart (yeh!), and it came with AT&T's pay-as-you-go (which is the first lie - it's pay BEFORE you start), no contract etc. The plan isn't the best one around, but I trust my daughters, for they've used it for a while, and they say it's the cheapest and with least dirty tricks.
I've bought two recharges at $25 each, but have actually used about $5 of each. This phone is really a plan B for me - when I travel, or when I'm roaming the city looking for something and need extra info from home, IOW, for situations which come up once in a few months. The rest of the time I'm close to the keyboard, can reach anyone via Skype or landline. So, I don't really need it; my last recharge expired a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't bought a new one yet - who knows when and whether will I get one.
The other dirty tricks: once you're left at $6 or less, every time you try to make a call, you get AT&T's sales pitch that you need to recharge; it sounds as if you're at zero, because you can't do a thing until it ends. You actually can press # or *, but only after 15 seconds or so - and the time you spend listening to the sales pitch is on your expense. Also, recharge _expires_. If you don't use your $25 within 90 days (or $100 within a year), and don't add a new recharge before the expiry, you've lost what you had. At some point, however, IIRC, it was that you lost any remainder if you added a recharge before the 90 days expire - which then changed to the opposite. To rub it in, it doesn't say so onscreen, nor within the message. You only know that it expires, but the details are somewhere in the tiny print.
So, my question is: is there any low impedance, fat free phone deal, where you can just pay what you use, no extra daily charges, no dirty tricks, no money for nothing, just plain and simple? It doesn't have to be the cheapest ever, I'm OK with $0.10/minute and even $0.15/message, as long as it's clean and trick free, and only the caller pays.
