No Contract Cell Phones

[Raavak]

Does anyone have any experience with companies like Zact or Ting? I guess the concept is you buy your phone up front and then just pay monthly for what you use and can end up paying much less over the course of time than you would with a contract through AT&T, Verizon, etc. The idea is that with the $1 phones you buy you actually pay for it throughout the course of your 2-year contract, and thensome.

Other than Joe Rogean and other people basically paid to advertise them I haven't heard from "real" people regarding these. Anyone with any experience have feedback?

[Rogean]

dunno I don't pay for my cell phone.

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[r00t]

I signed up with T-mobile which has an unlimited 4g option and no contract.

[quido]

I use pageplus which has been great since I removed myself from all batphones. Costs me like $2 a month since I use gmail for most communication with people. The network is great.

[Skittlez]

Straight Talk with Wal-Mart is fucking boss. Cheap as shit for unlimited minutes, texts, and data. Even though there is a soft-cap for the high speed internet at 4 gigs, still hasn't let me down. I was with T-Mobile.

[Raavak]

Straight Talk I was also looking into. I also think Zact may be floundering; they went from offering 2 phones to offering 1 crappy phone, though you can bring your own Sprint compatible phone I think.

[Mattius]

Have a windows 8 phone through at&t that is paid for by the month, Win8 seems a lot more practical on mobile devices I've noticed.

[Ahldagor]

Have a windows 8 phone through at&t that is paid for by the month, Win8 seems a lot more practical on mobile devices I've noticed.

that's what it was designed for, and not a mouse using interface or someone used to that for the full computer

[Porcoa]

I have a no contract phone through Virgin Mobile. It's ok, way cheaper than AT&T or Verizon. I kind of live out in the sticks though, so I don't get a lot of bars. Drops calls sometimes when driving on the back-roads. Better than a huge bill.

[Lictor]

People don't have iPhones with a major network? Where do you all come from?

[Orruar]

dunno I don't pay for my cell phone.

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Thanks again for the manastones. Let me know if you need a new phone as I need a pre-nerf fungi staff.

[kuuky]

I recently switched my wife to straighttalk from AT+T. 2 months in and all is good so far. For the record she doesn't do much on her phone cept facebook shit.

[Knuckle]

All the carriers sprint, t mobile, att, verizon offer some version of full retail no contract. You split the full retail cost of the cell phone over 24 months, versus getting an upfront discount on the device committing for 2 years. You are typically either paying for a more expensive cell phone plan, or more on your monthly cost to get the phone no contract. Same thing as leasing to own a car or leasing to own a tv, its not cost effective and makes the company more money, BUT you can trade up at no additional once a year with most of them.

No Contract 'Contract' plans = full retail /24 months
2 Year Contract = Cheapest way to get best phones
Prepaid with big carriers = Slightly less quality service, typically slower internet, less device selection/quality.
True Prepaid Carriers(h20, aio, boost, virgin, etc)= shit service, shitty phones, or bring your phone and phone might work 'ok'.


Best quality service for your bucks, something like verizon with a 2 yr if ur credit isn't shit you can get unlim talk + txt + 2gb data $75/month. That's with an iPhone 5s or a Galaxy S5. Or you get some shit phone on metro that calls itself a galaxy that they shit out with 3 year old technology in it calling it 'new' for 200 bucks with shit service for 45-50/month

[Lojik]

At first glance when I saw this thread title I thought it was more seo spam