Bye Bye Virgin Mobile USA

**CellURSoul2Devl** · 06-27-2012, 06:28 PM

After 8 years of being a Virgin Mobile USA customer, I'm dropping my Virgin plan and getting a new phone. This move will save me money in the long run, even if I have to buy a new phone again, which I already did last October when my car and cell phone inside were stolen.

Why? Because of the change in plans available and the rising cost for something I already had for free. I have the VM LG101, which allowed me to view my emails. To actually read the email, it cost 15 cents, but it was handy if it was something urgent having to do with my business, which is my cell phone number. Without warning, VM changed the terms of my plan, and cut off access to the Email & IM app, and I spent a couple of days wondering why I couldn't log in to my email accounts.

Now if you want to use the Email & IM app you have to have a data plan.

The cheapest one is the $30 a month plan, which is too expensive for my cell phone usage and purposes and my budget in these tough economic times.

So, goodbye Virgin, hello...

TracFone.

With that I can buy a monthly plan, use the airtime for talk, text, email and web browsing inclusive! The phone I'm getting has Double Minutes for Life, and even if I spend $20 a month, it will be worth not spending $30 a month, and I can start out with the $9.99 plan to see how it goes.

Thanks for reading this little rant.

**passislollypop** · 06-30-2012, 07:53 PM

Well I guess someone has to say it... How about not worrying about saving $10 or so per month and concentrate on your business? Tough economic times shouldn't be a problem because many businesses, including mine, were started during such tough times and there are still millions of customers for your product or service. I'm pretty sure the easier and simpler solution would have been to make an extra $10 a month and keep using what worked.

Though if you wanted to go even cheaper than TracFone, go with Boost iDen. 10 cents a minute/text, free internet, cheap phones. As far as I know you can even tether to laptops still but iDen is brutally slow for web browsing.

**CellURSoul2Devl** · 06-30-2012, 08:31 PM

passislollypop, your post is pretty useless. I am saving more than just $10 a month with my new TracFone plan, and it has many advantages the Virgin Mobile phone and plans offered now don't have. I can do a lot with the over $200 a year saved. I started my business in tough economic times which only got tougher, and am still in business. You have no idea what I do for a living so you don't know what you're talking about. I'm sorry you felt you needed to post something negative about someone else's decision in the world of cell phones, of which there are many to choose from, and I hope your feelings weren't hurt too badly that I dumped Virgin. Have a nice life.

**Joplin T-Mobile** · 07-01-2012, 02:21 AM

Tracfone isn't known for its data services, but if you're used to pain in trying to use a LG 101 for anything data... then I guess Tracfone won't hurt any worse.

Several prepaid carriers out there offer voice / data plans for around $30 per month and when coupled with a cheap $100 or less Android smartphones... that's a pretty smart move IMO. Going that route would probably bring you a better return on your business just in increased productivity alone. Using Tracfone for anything data is definitely going to waste your time that could be put to better uses... and time is money!

**Steveanderson13** · 07-01-2012, 02:50 AM

If anybody read what he wrote, he said he needed email.

**CellURSoul2Devl** · 07-01-2012, 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by Steveanderson13

If anybody read what he wrote, he said he needed email.

Thanks, Steveanderson13.

I love my new Tracfone LG500G. Since it's DMFL, I bought the $29.99 airtime card of 120 minutes, got the double minutes plus 20 minutes with a bonus promo code, so started out with 260 minutes (phone comes with 10 mins. loaded) and 150 service days, so I'm good until November, unless I run out of minutes, at which time I can buy more. I'm paying between 11 and 12 cents a minute of airtime usage, which works for everything.

I don't run my business through my cell phone as some people seem to think, and I don't need to make a lot of calls from it; only need to be accessible to clients and read email. The web browsing is just a bonus but I won't do much of that.

Thanks.

**pattyrn** · 07-01-2012, 07:07 AM

You might want to look into tracs new phone the s390g it is a blackberry style phone. It is 3g and also has wifi. So it will work in the att 3g only areas. There are a few of us talking about it on the tracfone part of hofo. The phone is 45 dollars on ebay. And it is triple minutes. I put a 60 minute card on it, used promo code 67861 for a total of 240 minutes.

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**CellURSoul2Devl** · 07-01-2012, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by passislollypop

Though if you wanted to go even cheaper than TracFone, go with Boost iDen. 10 cents a minute/text, free internet, cheap phones. As far as I know you can even tether to laptops still but iDen is brutally slow for web browsing.

Boost iDEN is being phased out this year. Read the article. http://www.prepaidphonenews.com/2012...tomers-of.html

**CellURSoul2Devl** · 07-01-2012, 04:27 PM

Thanks, pattyrn. This info might be useful to someone else reading this. I just bought my TracFone LG500G on eBay for $17.99, got it in the mail two days later, perfect eBay seller. I'm happy for now!