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Originally Posted by cschin4
Get a Virgin Mobile prepaid at Walmart. I highly recommend the SuperSlice. Both of my kids have one and it gets great reception. I am very pleased. And, I think you have to recharge about every 90 days. My sons got the 1000 Text messages/month for $9.99. And, the minutes are fairly cheap as well. The carrier is Sprint.
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I bought my 6 year old a prepaid phone for Virgin Mobile and it's a great deal. You need to re-charge every 90 days and I think the minimum is $20.00. I pay 18 cents per minute that she uses it. They also have other options but this works best for me.
In addition when you go to
Visit Virgin Mobile around the world they have "Sugar Mama" where you can log on and watch 5 short clips per day and earn 5 free minutes. I think they also do free advertising texts they send you and you can earn more free minutes. She has had her phone for 5 weeks and I have only spent $4.00 on usage. Once my contract with Verizon is up - I'm outta there too.
Before anyone thinks i'm crazy for giving my 6 year old a cell phone she walks 2 blocks from her school to her daycare lady and I require that she calls her before she leaves the school so they can time her to get there. She gets distracted easily and I worry about her stopping to play and freaking out her daycare lady. since she is so young we have programmed daycare, mom and dad into the phone and she can call us if she needs to. I am thinking it will be a plus for the summer when she is out playing with her friends as well. Sign of the times - better safe than sorry I guess.