I found an inexpensive phone plan

Might want to check out Republic Wireless. I just signed up. I have nothing to do with Republic, just a good deal it seems to me. We do a lot of traveling and the new phone is suppose to have very few dead spots and all three services for only $19 per month. Been on the list waiting for a long time. Friend of mine just got his and is very satisfied. Nothing to do with TM, but we are on the road 100 days plus per year and need the service. John

BTW phone is a bit pricy, but figure I will make it back in the price of the service.

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Originally Posted by Tampajohn

Might want to check out Republic Wireless. I just signed up. I have nothing to do with Republic, just a good deal it seems to me. We do a lot of traveling and the new phone is suppose to have very few dead spots and all three services for only $19 per month. Been on the list waiting for a long time. Friend of mine just got his and is very satisfied. Nothing to do with TM, but we are on the road 100 days plus per year and need the service. John

BTW phone is a bit pricy, but figure I will make it back in the price of the service.

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Hi-

Does this setup provide a Hot Spot so I can use my laptop camping? we camp 6 months a year. That is my main concern. We use Verizon on our smart phone and they provide a Hot Spot but it is not cheap at all, but we need it and I have been looking around.

I will check this out, Thanks for this great tip...

Dave

Sorry don't know about hot spot, but I am going to try to see how it works. Friend of mine says you can put a 32mg micro sd card in it and download to a laptop and print out what you want. I will know more when I get mine. They said could take up to 4 weeks. A run on them apparantely when they went out of the beta testing. John

From what I read, they use wifi to provide VOiP. If you are in an area that doesn't have a wifi connection, then the phone is supposed to revert to the Sprint network.....so you would be limited to their coverage too.

The company states that they believe most people will use wifi instead of true cellular (which they have to pay Sprint for usage). Off the top of my head, it seems that if many people used a lot of Sprints services, the price wouldn't be able to stay that low........but I'm in the tire biz not the phone market.

My biggest concern would be the phone seamlessly switching from wifi to cellular (without dropping the call) while driving down the road.

Let us know how it works out..........as the price is enticing.

According to their web site, it can not be uses as a hot spot, but rather it "should be" used with a hot spot. It is WiFi first and Sprint as a back up. The web site is correct, there are lots of wifi sites around, but today most are secure and not available to everyone. If you are at a Starbucks or Panera Bread you are ok. If you are driving in the middle of nowhere , better check Sprint coverage as that is the network you will be using. Be sure to keep what you need for the 30 day money back guarantee. This might be fine for a major city, but I am guessing no so good for camping.

A friend of mine purchased the single band a few weeks back and loves it. He has no complaints and does not know if he is on wifi or Sprint. The new dual band phone, XT, is suppose to eliminate any problem with coverage and you can go to the website and see the coverage it provides. Like you said, I am keeping my old phone til I make sure the new one does what I want. The way I was initially introduce to it was one of my grandkids works for Verizon and it is his job to keep people from dropping Verizon. He said, "there goes my job." I have been monitoring it since last summer and after they switched to the new XT phone, I decided to take the plunge. Should be interesting. Will keep you updated. Expected delivery is not for 4 weeks. Lot of people have signed up from what I understand. Anyway here is another try something new for a 66 year old man. Just something a lot more convenient than the old way of doing it when camping. John