..that $30 100 min, Unlimited Text, Unlimited Data (throttled at 5GB) plan?
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zorak950
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There's no free anything on prepaid. You don't even get Visual Voicemail. On the bright side, the voice overage rate is only 10? a minute, so you can go quite a bit over 100 and still pay less than for the unlimited voice plans. Of course, since it's prepaid you'll need the money to cover it in your T-Mobile account ahead of time.
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zorak950
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Depending on how you add funds there can be some lag time with the bank transfers; they recommend you put money in a full day before you intend to need it, but to be honest I've never run out of funds on the fly so I don't know how long it really takes. My assumption is that using a credit card, for example, would be pretty much instant. For convenience, though, I usually keep a few bucks sitting in my prepaid account for contingencies.
If you're asking whether you can re-up the whole plan before the 30-day expiration the answer is no, but you can keep as much money sitting in your prepaid account as you want to cover minute overages as long as you're careful about not letting the funds expire. If you run out of high-speed data though, you'll be stuck on 2G until your next plan charge date. Not that it's a big deal, but also be sure you note that prepaid plans are charged on a 30-day cycle, not on a given day of the month, so unlike post-paid your charge date will jump around.
If you're asking whether you can re-up the whole plan before the 30-day expiration the answer is no, but you can keep as much money sitting in your prepaid account as you want to cover minute overages as long as you're careful about not letting the funds expire. If you run out of high-speed data though, you'll be stuck on 2G until your next plan charge date. Not that it's a big deal, but also be sure you note that prepaid plans are charged on a 30-day cycle, not on a given day of the month, so unlike post-paid your charge date will jump around.
Easy enough to fix with Google Voice though.
GV's visual voicemail is also far superior to anything the postpaid carriers offer and they give you message transcription for FREE.Easy enough to fix with Google Voice though.
In fact, T-Mobile's Visual Voicemail app DOES work on prepaid plans.
I don't think this is true. I looked up refilling your account and I believe you can renew your billing cycle early, you'll just lose any minutes you have remaining. I guess I'll find out when I hit my cap.
As the others have said, there is nothing free with prepaid. However it's still far better than paying 100+ a month to verizon for minutes I don't use.
Easy enough to fix with Google Voice though.
But conditional call forwarding isn't included in that plan.
sent from the best smart phone (not phablet) on the worst network- the galaxy S III unfortunately on T-Mobile
No it doesn't... but please prove me wrong because I want it.
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I don't know how I can PROVE you wrong. But I'm on T-Mobile prepaid $30 plan and I installed the Visual Voicemail app from the Play Store and it works.
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Huh. I tried that a few months ago and it didn't. I should give it another shot; it's pretty much the only thing I miss about postpaid.
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