Chirp Is Better Than Texting
by Lynette
My husband and small cell phone keys are not compatible. They get him all worked up and frankly, it does me too. When we first experienced chirps (Walkie Talkie) oh about 3 years ago, we were very interested. My brother-in-law who’s a painter uses that extensively in his business to keep in touch with his builders and his family.
But alas, then we just didn’t have Walkie Talkie available where we lived. After patiently waiting for a long time, Sprint/Nextel still says the service in unavailable to us. But I got antsy. Our TracFones were way, way too old and did my research. We settled on Boost Mobile.
Boost Mobile is really targeted at younger, single people. But to us it made perfect sense. It is a pre-paid cell phone - we just aren’t prepared to go full monthly service. We don’t use cells that much since it’s not allowed at his work and I work from home and am home all day. So why spend $60 - $80 a month when we don’t have to?
After working everything out, the per minute calls were still lower compared to TracFone. You can even get wireless web for only $0.35 a day but the best part we like most is chirp! Walkie-Talkie is $1 a day only on the days we use it. So we figure, if we max it out that’s $60 a month for both of us - if we use it that much and we know we won’t.
It’s been a few months now. We really like the fact that my husband can talk to his brother, nieces and nephew for only $1 all day long. Walkie-talkie is so much more fun than text for us. And if we want to text? No problem, we only pay for outgoing texts. Incoming texts are free. That is sweet.
Overall we really like Boost Mobile. The only thing is, we had to call customer service to get our credit cards on file so it will auto-refill our minutes. Other than that it has been a good decision. Oh and no, we’ve hardly hit the max since we got it. I think we only spent $20 in about 3 months or so.
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