Rollover Minutes
imcoolerthanyou said:
If you are rolling over minutes you are on the wrong rate plan. You are paying for minutes you are not using. That is a big catch.
I'm currently with Verizon. Let's take a look at my options with them...shall we? I have no idea exactly how many minutes I'm going to use each month. I have a general idea based on past bills, but it fluctuates. I don't want to be caught with a plan that has too few minutes, because if I do, I pay a HUGE bill that month (it's happened to me a few times). Because of this, I have to try and decide which plan gives me what I need "most of the time" yet without being wasteful and buying way more than I need. So my choices with Verizon are:
1. Buy more m...
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wombough said:
or sprints fair and flexible plan.
...which is more expensive then cingulars rollover plans when you compare price per minute. not to mention its CDMA. so no, not sprints fair and flexible plan.
imcoolerthanyou said:
If you are rolling over minutes you are on the wrong rate plan. You are paying for minutes you are not using. That is a big catch.
That is the largest fallacy that a person could conceive about Rollover. It's simply not true.
Honestly, how many consumers actually "budget" their monthly anytime usage exactly to what their plan allots them each month? VERY VERY FEW!
True, for Rollover to be effective there must be months throughout your tenure that not all of your minutes are used, but that certainly doesn't mean that you're on the wrong plan. Monthly usage varies greatly and no person in this world can accurately predict 100% of the time what their needs will be in any particular m...
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imcoolerthanyou said:
If you are rolling over minutes you are on the wrong rate plan. You are paying for minutes you are not using. That is a big catch.
That couldn't be more inaccurate! Anything can happen throughout your contract. Take me for an example. I have been out of the country for almost 3 months. I have been using my Cingular phone for the occasional text message to the US. Whenever I get back to the US. I will have a good amount of rollover minutes to cover any overages that I could incur.
Unlike me, other people may not have to leave the country, but still, anyone can go to jail for a few months 😳 , or be in the hospital for a few months 😢 , etc, etc etc... The fact that those minutes k...
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If that's the case, we all pay for mins that we don't use (cuz otherwise you will incur at least 1 min of overage) If you have a $39.99, do you use exactly 450 mins each month? I didn't think so. Well, with Cingular if I use 400 mins I'll rollover the other 50 so if I need them next month I USE THEM!!!
Why is this so hard to understand?
You maybe mean Peak minutes? Anytime min include Night and Weekends. Meaning Anytime you use your phone you use up minutes. No distiguishing of Peak or N&W.
When you make a call, here's what the system checks for.
Is it a Cingular to Cingular call? Yes or No
If Yes, minutes are unlimited.
If No, goto N&W
Is it a Night & Weekend call? Yes or No
If Yes, minutes come from night time pool
If No, minutes are Anytime.
Now... long long ago, Cingular didn't have unlimited N&W minutes. They had packages of 1000, 3500 and 5000 minutes. If by some chance you used up all those minutes, it would pull from the daytime minutes. This is why they labeled those Anytime minutes.
Currentlly there's only one plan without unlimited N&W minutes, and that's the 450 individual plan with 500...
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So tell us, exactly what plan should a customer be on if he uses 1100 minutes anytime on average AND NOT ACRUE ROLLOVER?
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RoyalBlu said:
3 months or 90 days
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NO
Each month lasts for 12 months. I swear people, just open up a brochure and read it. It's in plain english. 3 does not equal 12.
I'm sorry you're too slow to catch on.