Working Phone For Escorts - Contract or Prepay

[SteveEscort]

Just wondering. I have always had my working phone on contract but my iPhone is in good shape, still fast, not a mark on it and I don't see the point in getting into another £36 a month contract ($56) just to have the latest apple incarnation. I will eventually move to another contract phone but not just yet.

 

Yesterday I ported my working phone to pre-pay. Same number, completely different phone company. I rang them on Monday 4pm with the authorisation code to transfer it and by 9am Tuesday I was moved to the new company. No loss of service.

 

Back to my post.... I rarely made any calls on on my contract phone as clients tend to phone me and last month I sent 27 text messages. I had 600 free any network minutes, free same network calls and unlimited texts. I've moved to a plan where calls are 8p ($0.13) per minute and texts 4p ($0.06). For a £20 top up I will get 500 texts to use when I want. 50% of my text messages are from guys who are also on iPhone so they're free anyway. That £20 top up will probably last me a year. Top ups here don't expire and you always have service if you have credit. You don't just get a couple of months service like in other countries (they cut you off in Turkey if you don't top up for 3 months).

 

Is pre-pay the way to go for escort phones. I know there's loads of voip solutions out there. I have one for my american number which comes through to my iPhone like a normal regular call with no loss of quality but voip is only good when the data is good on your phone.

[JoeyBryant]

Is pre-pay the way to go for escort phones. I know there's loads of voip solutions out there. I have one for my american number which comes through to my iPhone like a normal regular call with no loss of quality but voip is only good when the data is good on your phone.

 

I used to do pre-paid but got tired of running out of minutes and then both genuine/timewasters would blow my phone up with texts further decreasing my 'balance' and it was getting to the point I was paying $10 a week almost. Extra $40 a month.

 

Having 2 lines seems easier as you just get 1 bill a month for phone and thats it. I've also tried google voice briefly but it was just too much and half the time the phone wasn't even ringing through to my phone. I now only use it for the odd week I want to post in the classifieds

[Xander]

You pay for another phone each month?

 

Google voice with forwarding to smart phone. You have to set it up correctly, but you can have it prompt you for whether to use your regular number or google voice number for each outbound call. I believe this function only works on androids (But you can make calls from within the app on iphone, just takes more work)

[Guy Fawkes]

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You pay for another phone each month?

 

Google voice with forwarding to smart phone. You have to set it up correctly, but you can have it prompt you for whether to use your regular number or google voice number for each outbound call. I believe this function only works on androids (But you can make calls from within the app on iphone, just takes more work)

[JoeyBryant]

You pay for another phone each month?

 

Google voice with forwarding to smart phone. You have to set it up correctly, but you can have it prompt you for whether to use your regular number or google voice number for each outbound call. I believe this function only works on androids (But you can make calls from within the app on iphone, just takes more work)

 

I used google voice. Alot of times the phone on the callers end would ring 5 or 6 times when my phone would only ring once and go to voicemail. Sometimes it didn't ring at all. I was missing alot of calls. I didn't like it. It seemed to work when it felt like it

[KMEM]

One difference between US cell phone service and most "others" is that others only pay for calls initiated by them while in the US the owner of the cell phone pays for all calls. In other words, the person who makes the call in most countries other than the US pays for the call, which seems perfectly logical and reasonable. But, here we are, reasonable or not.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[Xander]

I used google voice. Alot of times the phone on the callers end would ring 5 or 6 times when my phone would only ring once and go to voicemail. Sometimes it didn't ring at all. I was missing alot of calls. I didn't like it. It seemed to work when it felt like it

 

Did you have gmail or google voice up on your home PC/laptop? If its open, it will ring into your email/google voice on your laptop for about 25 seconds before its forwarded to your phone. The amount of time to voicemail is still the same regardless of if its "re"-forwarded.

 

I had this issue too and it took a while for me to figure it out.

[SteveEscort]

I used to do pre-paid but got tired of running out of minutes and then both genuine/timewasters would blow my phone up with texts further decreasing my 'balance' and it was getting to the point I was paying $10 a week almost. Extra $40 a month.

 

I find that over half of my text clients use iMessage and so those texts don't even use your calling plan, just a quick look of my texts in the last week and 11 were on iMessage, this is partly how I was sending a low amount of cellular texts when I had that number on contract. I only sent another 8 other texts all week costing me £0.32. I made no outgoing calls on the phone all week and the one I did have to make I dialled #31# in front of it on my other contract phone to block the caller ID.

 

We don't have google voice over here, it doesn't seem to be licensed in the UK for some reason which is odd because most other international voip solutions are available. If I find pre-pay is too costly I will just move it onto another network contract and port the number again, however 32p for 1 week phone service is a lot less to the £36 a month I was paying with no loss of quality.

[SteveEscort]

One difference between US cell phone service and most "others" is that others only pay for calls initiated by them while in the US the owner of the cell phone pays for all calls. In other words, the person who makes the call in most countries other than the US pays for the call, which seems perfectly logical and reasonable. But, here we are, reasonable or not.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

 

Isn't it about time that American phone companies stopped that. It's a very odd practice compared to the rest of the world. There's no logic over there as to which numbers are landline and which are cellular, how do you know if the number you're texting is a landline or cellular phone. Here it's obvious... Landlines have area codes starting with 01 and 02 and mobile phones have numbers starting with 07.

 

On my personal contract phone I get 1000 free minutes a month - that's any mobile, any landline calls and free Orange to Orange calls (my network) which don't come off my 1000 minutes. I never call anyone EVER from my home landline and if it wasn't for the fact I get it free with my DSL I wouldn't even have a landline. In 2012, for the first time ever, more calls were made on mobile phone networks than on traditional cabled telephones. Landlines are becoming a thing of the past.

[rguer]

Isn't it about time that American phone companies stopped that. It's a very odd practice compared to the rest of the world. There's no logic over there as to which numbers are landline and which are cellular, how do you know if the number you're texting is a landline or cellular phone.

 

As KMEM mentioned, it doesn't matter, because the person who chose to have a mobile phone is the one who pays the extra cost of using a mobile phone. So you don't need to know what's mobile and what's not unless you're sending a text message.

 

Here it's obvious... Landlines have area codes starting with 01 and 02 and mobile phones have numbers starting with 07.

 

That might seem obvious to you, but it's not obvious to me. The same rule doesn't apply in Germany, for example.

[SteveEscort]

No but they have a similar country wide rule

 

015xx-xxxxxxx, 016x-xxxxxxx, 017x-xxxxxxx

Mobile numbers are allocated area codes starting with 015, 016 and 017. The numbers have a total length of ten or eleven digits: Numbers starting with 017 or 016 are 11 digits except 0176 and 01609 which are 12 digit like the numbers starting with 015. Since the advent of Mobile number portability, mobile phone number prefixes can no longer be relied on to determine the current operator of a particular mobile phone – only the original operator.

[KMEM]

Don't accuse US companies of making sense when they can "screw" the customer. Money talks, everything else walks.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[Steven_Draker]

One difference between US cell phone service and most "others" is that others only pay for calls initiated by them while in the US the owner of the cell phone pays for all calls.

 

That is justified by the concept of airtime. Airtime is the actual time spent talking on a mobile phone. This is the time measured by US cell phone operators (or carriers) when they calculate your bill.

 

In Europe only the person who makes the call is charged, the one who receives the call doesn't pay anything. Even though, I think that you guys, in the US, have many different options and pay less than what we pay for cell phone service (or mobile phone as we call it) here on continental Europe.

 

In Belgium I have three numbers (one for my land line, one for my private cell phone and one for the professional). I've found out that is worth investing into a SIM card with a local number for most countries I visited or planning to visit more than once). One should pay attention to the general conditions and make sure they don't cut you off after 'x' months of inactivity. The seasoned traveler might want to invest into a dual phone, where two or sometimes three sim cards can be put in the same phone.

[Aarian]

One difference between US cell phone service and most "others" is that others only pay for calls initiated by them while in the US the owner of the cell phone pays for all calls. In other words, the person who makes the call in most countries other than the US pays for the call, which seems perfectly logical and reasonable. But, here we are, reasonable or not.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

 

I like the US system better. In the US the caller pays part of the connection and the receiver pays part of the connection. Let's say that the caller pays 50% and the receiver pays 50%. (The 50% is a bad illustration, but that's what it is, just an illustration.) In this case the one who chooses to be mobile, pays for being mobile.

 

In most other countries it's the caller who pays the entire connection, or 100%. In that case the caller pays for the fact that someone else chooses to be mobile.

 

This also explains why, when calling someone in the US while calling from outside the US, the rate for calling a cell phone is the same as for calling a landline. If you call someone in Europe and you call from outside Europe, the rate for calling to a mobile phone is clearly higher than calling a landline.

[Steven_Draker]

This also explains why, when calling someone in the US while calling from outside the US, the rate for calling a cell phone is the same as for calling a landline.

 

Unfortunately, not the same if you're calling from Skype. :-(

[Aarian]

Unfortunately, not the same if you're calling from Skype. :-(

 

Here are the current Skype rates for calling to the US and for calling to Belgium. (BTW, these rates apply if calling from anywhere to these destinations, which also means from abroad.) :

 

Pay As You Go - United States

Calling - per minute excl. VAT

 

United States 2.3¢

United States - Alaska 6¢

United States - Hawaii 2.3¢

United States - Toll Free 0¢

 

(As you see there's no distinction between calling to a mobile phone or to a landline)

 

 

Pay As You Go - Belgium

Calling - per minute excl. VAT

 

Belgium 2.3¢

Belgium - Mobile 27¢

Belgium - Mobile - Proximus 18.5¢

 

(I guess this last overview speaks for itself.)

 

 

I hope you're happier with Skype now.

[SteveEscort]

If anyone calls the USA regularly then download the Vonage Roaming app for iPhone and Android, it calls USA and Canada landline and mobile phones for free and goes out as the caller id of your cellular phone once you've paired them up with a 4 digit code that's text to your phone to confirm ownership

[Aarian]

If anyone calls the USA regularly then download the Vonage Roaming app for iPhone and Android, it calls USA and Canada landline and mobile phones for free

 

That sounded like a really good deal, but what I read on http://www.vonage.com is that you do pay for those calls. It's just a flat rate of $9.99 per month for the first three months. After those three months it's $25.99 a month. I wouldn't call that free.

 

If we compare that with Skype, then on http://www.skype.com/en/rates/ we can see that you can have "Unlimited US and Canada" for $2.99 per month. (You need to click "view rates" and then scroll down a bit to see this rate.)

 

LOL I know, that's not free either.

[SteveEscort]

That's for vonage phone service not the vonage roaming app which is a completely different service from them

 

http://www.vonagemobile.com/roam

[anotherjohnindupont]

Prepay, as long as you pay with cash it's very difficult to trace it back to you.