Would you keep pageplus service if you could buy PP phones at a local store?
Would you keep pageplus service if you could buy the pageplus phones at a local store? You would no longer be able to use new verizon prepaid phones. Old phones yes.
Sure would...but I am into "Old" phones :-). Do you mean something like Page Plus acting like most cell companies in not allowing any phones on their network unless they are PP branded?
If Page Plus did this and keep the price right, I would buy one in a local store...just like if Verizon or T-mobile or Sprint came out with a better plan I would jump on it. But for me it is the plan not so much the latest technology which becomes old soooo soon.
Sure would...but I am into "Old" phones :-). Do you mean something like Page Plus acting like most cell companies in not allowing any phones on their network unless they are PP branded?
Yes, but still allow older verizon models until 4g takes over completely.
I don't know. The PP phones that they sell are not that interesting to me. I'm using a Moto Q9C that I bought refurbished and that is working out pretty well. But I don't think PP is SO much cheaper that it would totally negate having to use a simple or crappy phone. I've been trying to work my way out of an AT&T plan that features 3 phones sharing 700 mins a month that roll over, free nights and weekends, free mobile to mobile and unlimited texting. We rarely have gone over so we've built about 2000 rollover minutes. This plan has been costing me about $117 per month after govt. discount and that is too much for me. About the closest thing I could get to this with PP would be 3 Unlimited Talk and Text Plans and that would cost me $119.85 unless I bought discount refills. Even then it would be about $108 or more per month, so where would my savings be? The allure of PP, for me, is that I wouldn't have a contract and that I would be able to have 3 separate plans that work best for the different calling needs of each of the three people in my family. I can get by on the 1200/1200 plan, but that is too much for my wife and not good for my son who only talks about 200-300 mins per month, but runs up around 8,500 -- 11,000 texts. The cheapest thing I can put together on PP to make this all work would be around $80 or more.
My point is, if PP is going to limit what phones you can use, then I probably wouldn't put up with the long CS wait times, nickeling and diming of everything and the constant threat of losing the service due to a VZ dispute or PP imploding.
Verizon-for now, their incessant bugging to get off my alltel plan is annoying
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hear hear. I really try to keep up with the pre pay stuff but on a family plan post paid actually starts to make sense. while the UTT plan would blow away our minutes, with NW and 11 FF numbers (and google voice) our plan is virtually unlimted anyway. I'd love to be out of contract and I'm not a complete phone nerd but, and don't get me wrong I LOVED my e815, I really don't want to have that as the best choice. Let me use my old alltel and vzw phones and I may be porting over at some point, cut that ability and I'll look elsewhere.
All the big carriers use the latest and greatest phone as their marketing edge, i.e. iPhone on ATT and droid on VZ and Nexus one on TM. So it is easy to see that they really don't like the idea of their cheaper renters taking those customers away. I'm just cheap, and even if I can kindof see the benefits of smart phones I just don't want to pay the money to have one.
But I still care greatly about the phone I use - and the only reason I use PP is that it is the most talked about of the carriers that will allow me to use a great phone from half a decade ago - which to me is still a great phone. I would never have even remembered the name "PagePlus" if this were not possible - the phones they offer seem junky compared to Virgin Mobile - on a par with Tracfone, and both those are much more reputable companies around here. In the east we have never heard of PagePlus.
On the other hand - if PP were to offer some of my favorite antique cell phones on their website I would gladly pay a little more than the ebay fair market value to buy it from them.
For personal use? I don't care about buying locally or not, but if they did not let me use whatever compatible phone I could stand, I would be hard pressed to justfy keeping one. Nothing that Verizon has issued interests me, and for sure nothing in the 5-year-old feature flip phone collection. I won't do winmo and I cannot stand qwerty keyboard phones but I expect java, data, and push mail. That keeps me in an S/E phone and on AT&T for primary usage with all others in the "fill in minutes/coverage" role. I would probably use my StarTac though if we had 800 mHz locally. It has been gone for years.
The original question is kind of weird. Here is my situation, I have a q9c and am happy and will continue using PP as long as I can use my smartphone. If I have to change to a crappy flip phone at some time in the future the value of PP greatly diminishes and I will probably go somewhere else. I don't care about verizon prepaid phones; I don't care about the phones PP is selling in house right now either. If I want a crappy flip phone I can get a tracfone/net10.
The original question is kind of weird. Here is my situation, I have a q9c and am happy and will continue using PP as long as I can use my smartphone. If I have to change to a crappy flip phone at some time in the future the value of PP greatly diminishes and I will probably go somewhere else. I don't care about verizon prepaid phones; I don't care about the phones PP is selling in house right now either. If I want a crappy flip phone I can get a tracfone/net10.
Well, I must give credit where it is due. You just said essentially the same thing I said, only in a lot less words!
The original question is kind of weird. Here is my situation, I have a q9c and am happy and will continue using PP as long as I can use my smartphone. If I have to change to a crappy flip phone at some time in the future the value of PP greatly diminishes and I will probably go somewhere else. I don't care about verizon prepaid phones; I don't care about the phones PP is selling in house right now either. If I want a crappy flip phone I can get a tracfone/net10.
It is weird because I had to condense the question.
Let say. You couldn't use new vzw prepaid phones for 6 months on PP but you could buy new pp phones at a local store. Would you still use the pageplus service? You would always be able to use old vzw phones until 4 g come around. But 4g is a whole another ballgame.
I would second TRex. If I wanted crappy old phones that are supposed to be compatible on PPC but aren't, I wouldn't probably use PPC. I already have Net10. I would probably switch to Straight Talk if needed.
As I see it, PPC without BYOD is like Tracfone with even worse support and worse phone quality. At least Tracone/Net10/Straight Talk phones are do exactly what they are supposed to do. They display minutes used and come with cheaper text messages (for those on PayGo/standard plan). Activation is easy and quick.
I am not sure if PPC has that much pull with the big box stores to make them consider selling PPC phones. Even Cricket is a recent addition in Walmart. Heck, they can't even sell their prepaid cards in convenience stores.
I am not sure if PPC has that much pull with the big box stores to make them consider selling PPC phones. Even Cricket is a recent addition in Walmart. Heck, they can't even sell their prepaid cards in convenience stores.
I don't know if you mean Cricket or Pageplus. You can buy pageplus pins at a lot of convenience stores. Just make sure you ask for the correct type you need.
It is weird because I had to condense the question.
Let say. You couldn't use new vzw prepaid phones for 6 months on PP but you could buy new pp phones at a local store. Would you still use the pageplus service? You would always be able to use old vzw phones until 4 g come around. But 4g is a whole another ballgame.
I don't care one way or another about Verizon prepaid phones. Don't really care about 4G either.
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