Monday, November 19, 2007

Watch your account to avoid costly fees !

Today, contracts for wireless services are developed by the operator . Consumer pay a fixed monthly fee to subscribe to an offered service plan. The plan may includes a number of minutes of voice calls and SMS / MMS, and a number of data bandwidth. Calls made at peak or off-peak time, from different locations (home or roaming areas), and to various destinations (family members, in the network of mobile numbers, etc.) are all calculated differently in the plan. If you exceed the limits of use of this plan, you will have to pay more. Due to these additional fees, many subscribers tend to choose plans that are somewhat more expensive than what they need to ensure that they do not exceed the limit. The unused portion of the service plan is wasted at the end of each month or billing cycle. That would mean a lot of extra profit for the operator and the subscribers throw that money needlessly

Some wireless network operators in the United States provide solutions to the problem of wasted minutes. Cingular lets you to transfer unused minutes from one month to another. Sprint proposes a different solution: a flexible service plans, you will be automatically upgraded to the next higher plan if your usage exceeds the limit.

You can do better! Let's beat the system and don't throw your money away by monitoring the use of your account regularly and adjust your usage habits accordingly. Well, if you are short of peak time minutes left near the end of month/billing cycle, you can make less important calls during off-peak hours, or even postpone to the next billing cycle. In a more aggressive planning, you may also reduce your month-to-month fluctuations of usage. This would allows you to choose an affodable plan that closely matches your need. The key to good planning is to research for accurate and real-time data on the use of your account at any time. I will show you how to do this in my next posts!

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