Prepaid cell phones operate by a user’s purchase of mobile services in advance of using them.So you pay before and then you can use the mobile phone to the limit of the credit you purchased.The good thing is that you’re not tied by any contract with the cell phone operator and there’s no monthly bill.

Prepaid cell phones or pay-as-you-go cell phones have many advantages.They’re ideal for people who don’t use their cell phones that much.Also parents can control their kids’ cell phone usage with these prepaid services.

There are many cell phone companies that provide prepaid cell phones.The biggest ones include : Virgin Mobile , AT&T Wireless or T-Mobile. Virgin Mobile provides 200 minutes of usage for 20$ ,400mins for 30$ and 1000 minutes -50$.

Disadvantages

Well,prepaid cell phones are not the latest models on the market.Almost all companies that provide prepaid services are offering basic phones.For example Virgin offers the Slider Sonic at only 80$ , Marbl at $14.99,Super Slice at 49.99$ or the new Wild Card messaging phone at 99.99$.

Another major disadvantage of prepaid cell phones is that there’s an expiration date.If you don’t use your minutes within a specified period,you lose them.So if you didn’t use all your minutes ,let’s say this month,you can save them by adding extra minutes(buying extra minutes) before the current ones expire.

So there you go.Prepaid cell phones are a great way to avoid getting a monthy bill,but it has it’s disadvantages.