BA> You can buy a TracFone at Wal-Mart, according to Paul Harvey.  And you
BA> can buy them at some convenience stores, the Casey's General Stores chain
BA> in Iowa and Nebraska carries them.
 
Wal-Mart's where I bought my TracFone many years ago.  
BA> I dropped AT&T wireless after I moved out here.  My local calling area
BA> was basically Omaha and its environs but didn't stretch this far out. I
BA> asked them if they would move the local area and they said no, so I
BA> dropped the service the next month.
 
Interesting.
 
BA> Before AT&T I had Verizon, and while I was on the edge of the Omaha metro
BA> local calling area, every time I called anyplace from home I got billed
BA> for a call originating in Beatrice, NE, which is about 70 miles away as
BA> the crow flies.
 
Verizon wanted a $200 deposit from me and I told them they were nuts.  I
had SunCom (owned by AT&T) at the time and began shopping around for
another service when my bills stopped showing incoming call numbers.  When
I called them, by then AT&T took it over, I was given a song and dance
about they can't do that anymore because of a privacy clause.  To that, I
said PHOOEY!
 
BA> When I talked to their droid she said it was skip; UHF doesn't skip, and
BA> even if it did it wouldn't do it reliably all the time to the same place.
BA> I tried to tell her it was an error in their billing tables (the tower I
BA> was connecting to was mis-identified) but she didn't understand. I
BA> dropped that service, too.
 
A poor, uninformed bluff.
 
BA> TracFone works fine.  Nationwide local calling, too.  But then I don't
BA> use the thing much, I usually run out of months before I run out of
BA> minutes; $20 buys 2 months or 60 minutes of airtime, there are currently
BA> 200 and some minutes on it.
 
Too expensive.
 
BA> I can see that the plan is very expen$ive for anybody that uses a cell
BA> phone a lot, but for me it's just dandy.
 
If it works for you, good.  You're the only one you need to please.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

... Unfair competition: Selling cheaper than we do.
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