Voicestream Wireless - Change Their Name
By Martin Smith, Sat Dec 10th
The Voicestream Wireless Corporation has long been a leader inthe world of wireless communications, including one way radioapplications such as paging and beeper services, as well as twoway radio communications like cellular and PCS. When Voicestreamplanned to become a leader in the cellular arena it becameT-Mobile which is one of the fastest growing cellular serviceproviders. They offer all digital voice messaging and high speedwireless data to about 10 million subscribers.
The Get More business strategy has been the cornerstone ofT-Mobile¡¯s (formerly Voicestream) success, which is manifestedin an ever growing customer base. The idea behind this strategyis more minutes, more features and more service than what isbeing offered by the competition, and at very competitive prices.
Currently considered the value leader among cell phoneproviders, T-Mobile Wireless/Voicestream Wireless offers some ofthe lowest per minute rates available today. T-Mobile/Voicestream cell phone plans are available for a basicmonthly fee as low as $30.00 a month. This includes 300 peakminutes and unlimited off peak minutes, with a 40 cents perminute charge for over limit minutes. T-Mobile Get More 300plan, at around $60.00 a month, includes 3000 total minutes peakand off peak, with 30 cents a minute for over limit minutes.Long distance calls are 20 cents a minute. Roaming checks in ata hefty 49 cents a minute. You may want to think about adifferent plan if you make a lot of long distance calls ortravel out of area.
T-Mobile¡¯s Family Time Plan includes two lines and then just$10.00 for each additional line. At jus under $100.00 a month,this plan allows 800 shared peak minutes and unlimited non-peakminutes. Roaming is still 49 cents a minute and over limit callsare 35 cents per minute.
Be cautious with roaming and over limitcalls, a 10 minute out of area call will cost you close to $5.00.
In between T-Mobile¡¯s (Voice stream) basic plan and Family Timeplans, is T-Mobile¡¯s Get More Plus plan for about $80.00. Thisplan gives you 1000 peak minutes, unlimited off peak minutes.Long distance and roaming charges are about the same as withother T-Mobile plans.
If you compare T-Mobile¡¯s Family Plan at $70.00 a month withNextel¡¯s Get More Connected 600 plan at $56.00 a month,T-Mobile¡¯s plan is actually cheaper when you take intoconsideration the minutes offered by each, the two lines fromT-Mobile and the fact that T-Mobile¡¯s additional lines are$10.00 cheaper then Nextel. All of this makes T-Mobile about$65.00 a month less than Nextel¡¯s plan. It is even slightlycheaper than Cingular¡¯s Family Talk $50.00 a month family plan.Again because of the cost of additional lines and the differencein allowable minutes.
Recently the pocket PC phone joined the T-Mobile family ofunique phones. With strong PC capabilities including a fullcolor touch screen, Microsoft Mobile 2003 OS, email, PocketWord, Excel, an Intel processor, 32mb Ram, and internationalphone for travel in over 130, this is an amazing phone. OtherT-Mobile phones by Nokia, Samsung and Motorola come in flip andstandard phone styles, and have a wide selection of featuressuch as camera phone, ring tone composer, MIDI or MP3 formatsbuilt in.
With these pricing plans it may be worth your while to look intoa T-Mobile plan for your family.
About the author:Martin Smith is a successful freelance writer providing adviceon purchasing a variety of Cell phone plans and more! Hisnumerous articles are a resource of interesting and relevantinformation. http://www.mobile-n-cell-phone.com
