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In article <3AC75F1A.8F9B9487@prism.gatech.edu>,
EE Lab  <gt0445a@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>  Can anyone give me advise on a good cellphone & plan for the atlanta
>area. If you are having good experience with a particular provider
>please reply with a recommendation and prices. Thank you
>  Cornelius

You really have to decide what kind of usage you are going to have on the phone. Are you
planning to use it to replace your home/dorm phone? Then you need a plan with a lot of
minutes and good reception everywhere. Are you planning to use it while travelling
across the US? Then you want a plan that won't ream you when you are out of the base
area. Are you going to use it soley for emergencies? Then
a bare-bones plan or prepaid is the way to go. For me personally, I wanted the phone solely
for safety reasons and wanted the cheapest option I could find that would work over most of
the country. For that reason, I went with BellSouth's prepaid. $20 cards are good for 6
months, so that makes my cellphone cost only $40/year. The Motorola phone I got for it was
cheap, no bells and whistles, but reception is fine. I took it out to Texas with me
and was able to get reception there. I could have spent another $30 and gotten the Nokia
5130 which is a decent phone as well with a few more bells and whistles. 

For my plan, coverage over the entire Atlanta area is fine (no holes found so far), and $20
buys me about 60 minutes of calling time. 

Catherine

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