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Gophone Industry Analysis

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A major carrier can offer you a reliable customer service and an abundance of shopping locations. Some of the big players include: AT&T, which runs Cricket Wireless and also offers the GoPhone plan. Sprint runs both Boost and Virgin. T-Mobile offers MetroPCS and GoSmart. Verizon has prepaid plans under the Verizon label. However, there are also quite a few lesser known services. This article endeavors to focus on brands that aren't exactly household names. Some have a few serious personal quirks, but all are interesting and generally low cost. GoPhone This prepay plan via AT&T has to be renewed every month. If you ever have cash flow issues, this can mean losing your phone number because your payment was a day late. This plan is only available …show more content…

They offer up to 200 voice minutes, 500 texts, and 500MB of free data for free. At $6.67/month, you can get unlimited voice and text plus 500MB of data. at $19.99/month, you get 1GB of data with unlimited voice and text. The fine print says that additional minutes and text are 1 cent each, so perhaps "unlimited" is not actually unlimited. Additional data can be purchased for 2.5 cent per MB or $9.99 per GB. There are some limitations. You cannot send vide messages to people on other services and all voice goes through their VoIP. H2O Wireless This carrier offers two kinds of plans: Minute plans and monthly plans. Minute plans start as low as $10 and go up to $100. Under this plan, you pay 5 cents for each voice minute or text and 10 cents for each MB of data. The cheapest monthly plan starts at $30. It includes unlimited text and talk and 50 MB of data. Page Plus …show more content…

The company bets that you will do most of your calling, data usage and texting via Wi-Fi. This allows them to offer very low cost plans. Their basic $10/month plan boasts unlimited talk and text. You can add 5GB of data for another $25. Their Wi-Fi calling has a certain appeal for people who travel internationally. They only have two phones. Because of their hybrid service, their hardware is not usable by other services. If you buy one of their phones, it can only be used on their service. Scratch Wireless If you use their service as Wi-Fi only calls and texting, the service is free. You can get unlimited talk or text for $2/day apiece or $4/day for both. Their monthly service starts at $6.99 for 100 minutes of talk. Unlimited monthly calling is $14.99. This service only works with one smartphone and it is a few years old and out of date. TextNow Wireless TextNow continues the quirky trend. To keep rates low, it uses the Sprint network with custom VoIP software. Rates start at $18.99, which buys you unlimited calls and text with 500MB of data. At $39.99, your data amount goes up to 2GB. You can double that to 4GB for just $20 more or a total of $59.99. The strongly recommend you use their phones because of the way their hardware integrates the necessary

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