Sprint Common Cents Mobile and my 2 cents...
As I have been watching my favorite TV show Las Vegas, I have been seeing commercials for this new cell phone company called Common Cents Mobile. I wasn’t sure what this new company was, but in the commercial there was people singing something about counting minutes down. I currently have a cell phone contract with Verizon Wireless and have had nothing but horrible customer service and a horrible experience. My cell phone contract is ending this month, so I decided to take a deeper look into this prepaid cellular company Common Cents Mobile.
After looking up some details about Common Cents Mobile, I found some very interesting details about the company. The most surprising detail was that Common Cents Mobile is owned by Sprint Mobile. Sprint Mobile already has Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile under their belts as pre-paid wireless companies. As a carrier to this mobile company, Wal-Mart has decided to become a provider for Sprint’s new company.
The newest part that Common Cents Mobile provides is the price of $.07 a minute where Boost Mobile offers $.10 a minute and Virgin Mobile offers $25 for 300 minutes. (Averages about $.08 a minute) The money saver part that Sprint Mobile has incorporated with the new pre-paid company is that Common Cents Mobile rounds minutes used down to 0. Therefore, if you were to be on the phone for 15 minutes and 55 seconds, you will only be charged for the 15 minutes.
Another major detail of Common Cents Mobile is that they do not require any contract to be signed or any year restrictions. This means if you want to change any part of your plan, you have the chance to do it without having to worry about a company charging you extras like Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Cricket, and even Sprint. This is another great part of Sprint’s genius plan with starting Common Cents Mobile. Also Common Cents Mobile doesn’t require background checks, activation fees, roaming charges, and they don’t have any long distance charges.
A downfall of Common Cents Mobile is the lack of choices for phones. As thus far, there are only three phones that are available, but are very affordable in price. These phones include the LG 101 which is priced at $19.77, the Samsung M340 priced at $39.77, and Kyocera S2300 priced at $69.77.
Common Cents mobile offers pre-paid calling cards that are good for 30 days, 60 days, or 1 year. The 30 day calling card is priced at $20 and includes 565 minutes, whereas the 60 day calling card is priced at $30 and includes 848 minutes. The last calling card plan is only offered on CommonCentsMobile.com, but offers consumers activation for 1 year time. Common Cents Mobile also has unlimited messaging that can be added for $20 per month and the mobile data rate is priced at $1 per megabyte each day.
Another downfall of Common Cents Mobile is the national coverage throughout the United States. The map below is the cellular reception map for the United States:
After taking in all these considerations, I have decided that I am going to do some research into another wireless cell phone company due to the lack of wireless reception around where I live. Before deciding whether Common Cents Mobile is the cellular company for you, make sure you analyze this review and take everything into consideration.
“The 30 day calling card is priced at $20 and includes 565 minutes”
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
If you would have taken the 3 – 5 seconds it would have took to actually read the the card you would have discovered that it says “up to 565 minutes”. Now I’m not really sure what “up to” means and I don’t know why they can’t be just straightforward like every other prepaid cell phone company and just tell you exactly how many minutes you are paying for.
Sounds like more of the same Sprint bullshit we’ve all come to know and hate.
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They say Up to 565 minutes because by using text messages or data you will decrease your available talk time.– hum .. that is just Common Cents!
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