Good Day To Pre-Pay ?? (General Comments...)

Name: BigSequin

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Date:	13.01.02 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap and easy to use

Disadvantages: Not profitable for the service providers

Prepay phones, bringing mobile communications to the reach of the average Joe, what a great idea, at least I though it was and so since prepay has been here I have had quite a number of different phones.

But....technology marches on and I am convinced that the telephone service providers are now looking at prepay as the biggest mistake they have made, have you noticed that the "prettiest" new handsets are not available on prepay?, if you want the advantages of prepay you must do it with the old unloved handsets (remember the old "bricks", you needed arms like Schwartznegger just to pick them up ?), so....every time I look at a "pretty" phone I always look for the bit about contracts, one such phone I looked at was £199 with a contact but if I wanted it just as an upgrade it was going to be £450, now that is a rip off if ever I saw one ?.

I like that bit about "no limit on calltime credit", which means that if you put so much money into your phone there is essentially no limit as to how long it takes you to use it, surely this can't be making the service profitable?, well I think the providers have cottoned on at last and contract phones are now making a comeback, well...bye bye prepay, you've had your day.

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