Sunday, August 07, 2011

Major Wireless Carriers in the United States

Have a look of below mentioned some of the major Wireless carriers in the United States, where the Call Plans for each carrier vary from state to state.

AT&T - Previously known as Cingular Wireless Cell Phone Plans, is one of the largest wireless network in the United States. At&T offers a rollover feature to it's users, where they can rollover the unused minutes from one month to another month.

T-Mobile Cell Phone Plans : T-Mobile comparatively offers more minutes than any other wireless carrier for the same price . T-Mobile plans also do not charge any extra fees for roaming and long distance calls.

Alltel Cell phone Plans: This wireless carrier allows us to choose up to 10 landline or cell phone numbers to call for free. The problem with Alltel is that, it is not available in some areas.

Verizon Wireless Cell Phone Plans: The highest rated wireless service provider offering unlimited Network Calls and availability to almost every location.

Sprint Cell Phone Plans: this wireless carrier allows it's users to buy add-on minutes.

Nextel Cell Phone Plans: A feature unique to Nextel is its Push-to-Talk, and permits subscribers to use their phone as a walkie-talkie with unlimited range.


Some of the key features offered by most of the Carriers are:
  1. Text Messaging Feature - Charges are same for both sending and receiving the text messages
  2. Free Minutes during off-peak hours or days
Whether you need a Cell Phone for business or for pleasure, a world of Cell Phone Plans is available to you. Determine your needs, and find a Phone and Cell Phone Plan to make sure that, you are getting the most for your money.

So, Before signing-up with any wireless carrier one should read the contract very carefully and find out how long the contract duration is and what are the early termination charges for that?


Factors that affect your Cell Phones Monthly Bills

- Talk Time: Including both incoming and outgoing calls, how much time do you talk on your cell phone? more you talk, more you pay .

- Long Distance Calls: Long distance calls to other area code and countries have higher per minute rates and hence often cost you more for the outgoing calls and almost likely for the incoming calls

- Call Timings of a Day: At what time of a day (Peak Times or Off-peak Times), you make most of the calls? Calls during the Peak Times are a bit expensive and you get less discount on that.

- Data Transfers: You pay for downloading emails, messages, ringtones, images etc.

- Place of Calls: Calls from outside of your carrier's coverage area may incur both expensive per minute roaming charges and airtime charges.




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