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What are Activation Fees for Verizon Prepaid.

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Activation Fees for Verizon Prepaid.

You will pay up to a $25 activation fee when you initialize your Prepaid Verizon Wireless cellphone. I initialized my Verizon Prepaid phone at a Verizon store and bought a $30 card at the same time. The individual that helped me did not charge me the fee. I spent $79.95 on the cellphone.


Verizon Wireless provides one of the biggest and most reliable cellular networks in the nation. Verizon Wireless also offers prepay Wireless services. Here is the Logo that we all connect with “Can you Hear Me Now.”

Verizon Wireless

The Verizon Prepaid Basic Plan with 25 cents per minute with no daily access fee. The Verizon Basic plan is not a good value when you compare to other prepay plans.
Net10.com for 10 cents a minute or Tracfone.com. from 6.6 cents up to 33 cents a minute are much better available alternatives.

The Verizon Core Plan charges 99 cents per day access and calls are 10 cents per minute. Unlimited calls to other Verizon Wireless cell phones are free. I made use of theVerizon Core plan for several months, if your main phone calls are with Verizon Wireless users this can be a good deal.

The Plus Plan is $1.99 per day access and charges 5 cents per minute. In essence this will be the same as the Core plan with Unlimited Nites and Weekends added and you will only pay 5 cents per text to receive and send.

The Verizon Prepaid Unlimited Talk Plan offers Unlimited minutes and one-cent text messages for $3.99 per day.

Prepay Verizon Calling Features

Call waiting, caller ID, 3 way calling and call forwarding are included. Monspnvz030310

There is no extra charge for Verizon Nationwide Long Distance.

Check out my article on the Best Yearly Cell Phone Plan

Motorola Razr and Samsung R451c Qwerty Phone

Using your Verizon Prepaid Phone as a Pager

Caller ID is great when your account balance is low . The caller ID will show who is calling and if you are almost out of money on your Wireless phone you can use a land line and call your friend back.

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Should you Quit your Cell Phone Contract?

Friday, January 8th, 2010

If you are paying $40 a month on a contract cell phone cancel your contract. You heard me right. Unless it costs you a lot to cancel your contract you will save money and have more minutes to use if you go to Straight Talk Prepaid.

Who is Straight Talk Prepaid Wireless?

Straight Talk Wireless is a partnership between Verizon, Tracfone and Walmart.  The phones will only be sold at Walmart and online at Straight Talk.com.  All Straight Talk phones use the Verizon Wireless network.

Straight Talk Prepaid Motorola Razr and Samsung R451c phones.

Straight Talk has just started offering Two very inexpensive prepaid cell phone plans.

The $45 Unlimited plan includes unlimited calling, unlimited texting, unlimited data downloading to your phone, and unlimited 411 calls.

The $30 a monthly plan “All you Need” includes one thousand minutes, one thousand texts and 30 meg of data per month.  If you run out you can just add another card so if you are using 1500 minutes a month you will use one and a half cards a month which comes to $45 or you can go to the $45 unlimited plan.

Cell Phone Reception
The cell phone reception will be good because your phone will be on the Verizon network which is the largest (or second largest) in the United States.

The Straight Talk Phones

From the simple and bulletproof LG100c and LG 200c to the New Samsung Finesse, Straight Talk has a nice variety of prepaid phones that all use the Verizon Network.

Check out Straight Talk Wireless

So Should you Quit your Cell Phone Contract?

If your contract is over $45 a month and you can get out of it without paying a large end of contract charge then the answer is yes.   If you are not a heavy user of a phone and the $30 a month plan will work for you then you should also change to Straight Talk.  The $30 “All You Need” plan is a way better deal than most contracts that start you out with 400 monthly minutes and at least a $40 a month charge after taxes.

For most people one of the Straight Talk monthly plans will be the best value Cell Phone service available.