Sherman wrote:
I'm curious about the TOTAL cost of a prepaid cell phone for someone
on a very limited budget.

Something else to beware of: someone posted to another newsgroup just
yesterday that TracFone is losing coverage in major markets. I can
believe it, because Cingular is gradually phasing out TDMA in favor of
GSM, and a lot of the prepay phones (ALL those using the Cingular
network) are TDMA.

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