| Cingular prepaid cellphones have unlimited calling to over fifty-two million customers on their unlimited mobile to mobile plan and has even made pay as you go simple and easy by being able to purchase minutes in advance with one of their two prepaid plans.
Cingular even offers their customer to option to carry their unused funds over to the next period. With cingular there are no monthly bill payments and no age requirements. The Pay As You Go Plan is the more flexible of the two plans offerred by Cingular, because there will be no set price to pay each month and you only pay for the minutes you actually use. |
This plan does offer two tiers. The first tier minutes cost only ten cents each and you get unlimited mobile to mobile service, but you are charged a dollar a day as an access fee on the days you use your phone.
With the second tier minutes cost twenty-five cents each, but you do not get the unlimited mobile access, and you are not charged a dollar a day to use your phone. For signing up the first time, your account will be credited ten dollars on any tier.
With Pick Your Plan there are four tiers, which you will pay a monthly fee, but you are not locked into any type of contract. The first tier cost $29.99 per month and allows two hundred anytime minutes, a second tier costs $39.99 and allows three hundred anytime minutes with a thousand night and weekend minutes.
The third tier cost $49.99 and allows four hundred anytime minutes with unlimited night and weekend minutes. The last tier cost $69.99 and allows six hundred and fifty anytime minutes, unlimited night and weekend minutes, and unlimited mobile to mobile minutes.
Purchasing cards determines when the minutes will expire by the denomination of the card. A $15 card will expire in thirty days, while the $25, $50, and $75 cards expire in ninety days, and the $100 card does not expire for a year.
With Cingular there is no activation fee, no contracts, and no credit checks to have to worry with.
Packages can be purchased for text messaging or the messages can be paid for individually for fifteen cents for each message. incoming or outgoing. A text message package will cost five dollars a month for two hundred text messages or for twenty dollars a month you can get three thousand text messages.
Cingular even offers their customers international text messaging for twenty cents each for sending and only ten cents each for receiving messages. Picture and audio messages can be sent or received for a price of one cent per kilobyte.
Cingular downloads start at $1.99 for ringtones, games, graphics, and many more. Their calling features include caller ID, voicemail, call waiting, call forwarding, and three way calling.
Directory assistance also is available for $1.79 each call plus airtime and emergency assistance calls are free. Cingular has placed their web access into plans, which will save you money if you like to browse the web a lot, are priced at a fifteen dollar or twenty dollar monthly fee depending on access.
Cingular does not charge for roaming within the nationwide service area and nationwide calls are considered regular calls if made within the national service area. International call start at ten cents per minutes, but if you do make frequent international calls and need low rates, then the Cingular $3.99 World Connect Plan is for you.
Customer service is easily contact by a toll free number or email.
There are a variety of phones compatible with Cingular, which are the Motorola v173, Sony Ericsson T290a, Nokia 6010, and the Samsung C207. The majority of Cingular phones have a purchase price of $19.99, but this is after a mail in rebate. Flip phones and camera phones are available as well.