Mobile Phone Tips
Mobile call plans are different in the US and the cost can add up quickly unless you take some sensible precautions. Here are a few tips that have been passed on to us:
- Let your fingers do the talking. Texts and emails are the most economical way to stay in touch from your phone.
- Talk is cheap, but not if you dial international. If you must, use a call card. You can program the phone to dial the callcard number and enter your PIN automatically. You can get call cards for most countries with rates as low as 2c per minute (you will still have to pay for the local mobile call)
- Make sure you are covered. No US mobile network covers the whole country. T-Mobile covers 90% of the US population, click here to see the coverage map and make sure your destination is covered.
- You pay when somebody calls you. If it is an international call you are charged the local rate.
- Your account is considered inactive when you have no credit, you cannot receive calls or texts when you have no call credit.
- Tell people back home to send you text messages from T-Mobile's website. It's free for them to send, just click here.
- Anyone can send a short email to your phone, just like a text. Your email is yourphonenumber@tmomail.net. Tell them to keep it short and sweet, you only have 160 characters like a text.
- Use US Postal Service to send the phone back, they are cheaper than everyone else. Just put the phone, battery and charger in a small padded envelope with your name when you are finished with it and return it to us at the following address: Fonepool Inc, 447 Bayridge Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, 11209.
- We will process your refund when we receive the phone battery and charger in the post. The postage should cost around US$4 per phone.