Are phone carriers like VirginMobile any good?

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answer:Here’s my story. College student, big texter, big emailer, and loving my data plan. Paying my monthly bill is cheese! So easy. Just go to the webpage and purchase Top Up card amount. Furthermore if you are late on paying your bill, say it was due the 25 of February, you could still pay later on in life and the same service will be restored and you won’t suffer any consequences your billing date resets to appropriate the time slot as well. I have never received a harassing call ever. Just a simple “text” that reminds you it’s near that time of the month to refill. And then if you don’t pay, and have automatic refill on, you will get a text telling you that a payment hasn’t gone through. I have the 25 dollar plan and run an Optimus 5 phone. The trouble is it’s 300 mins and text free and data free. The only problem I can think of is if you need “call records” for a court appearance as proof of evidence it will take a bit longer to receive because you will have to go to a notary and mail that to the company as opposed to a walk in store like Sprint and etc. But other than that I have only gone over 300 mins 1 out of a year and that’s because I was “on hold” for many calls during that particular month. My YouTube speed is fine as are all other web functions. Remember though at the moment I think they are offering only 3G? You might want to double check that as newer phones have newer abilities.

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