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RE: No cheap cell providers in the US?
Menthix is right. Majority of the cellular service is contract and fixed monthly cost based (as long as you don't exceed the plan allowances). That is how we do it here, like it or not.
Prepaid or "pay as you go" service just hasn't caught on and the few options of that sort that exist aren't that great. Also, while two of the main US carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile) operate GSM networks, I am not aware of either offering such services or partnering with any service reseller offering them. If you go with Boost, for example, you will be on Sprint's iDEN network (not even CDMA), which they inherited from Nextel. Your phone selection will be from 4-5 clunky Motorola handsets, which are completely useless outside the US.
Another thing you should know is that you will be paying, whether in terms of plan minutes or money, for incoming calls as well as outgoing calls. This is in part a consequence of the fact that in the US, it has always cost the same to call a cell phone from a land line as it did to call another land line.
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