Pay-as-you-go phone

fendergirl
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:15:36 +0000

youdontsay, my elderly grandparents have pre-paid phones from Virgin Mobile. They really liked their selection of phones… My mom just got them new phones for Christmas and they love them because the buttons are much bigger then their old phones. They have to “top them up” every 3 months and the smallest card that I have seen them use is 20 dollars. You can buy them pretty much anywhere, you just dial the number on the back of them (or do it online) and they add the minutes to your phone for you. It’s pretty easy. You might be able to buy a bigger card and have it last more then 90 days… not sure how that works. Any unused minutes carry over into the next 90 day period. My grandfather has a ton of minutes on his phone and my grandmother uses all of hers every 90 days. She said one of these days she’s going to accidently use his phone to call one of her friends, lol.