Choosing The Best Mobile Phone Service?

It isn’t always easy to pick between all of the mobile phone services advertised these days. Which plan should you pick? Unlimited everything, 500 daytime minutes with free nights and weekends, e-mail access? A lot of it obviously depends on your personal preferences but there are a few dangers you need to be on the lookout for. Text messages are the number 1 culprit when it comes to outrageous phone bills. It sneaks up on people in different ways but this alone can drive your bill up to several hundred dollars if you aren’t careful. One way people fall into the text message trap is to purchase unlimited internet plans while not signing up for a texting plan as well.

Thinking about just using Yahoo messenger(mobile) or a similar IM service? This is not a service provided by your phone company and it all takes place on the Internet(which you paid for unlimited access to) so you are in the clear right? Wrong. The phone company can still charge you for those conversations as if they were text messages and they have suckered in a lot of people like this. There are a variety of other ways you can fall into the text messaging trap so if you are going to use it as all you should go ahead and purchase unlimited texting. Ditto goes for Internet access. If you are going to use it at all you are better off going for unlimited service. The bills can soar on Internet charges as well because phone companies can charge for every megabyte exceeding your monthly data transfer limit.

These limits are usually very low and a megabyte is not very much data at all. It is even easier to rack up huge bills now that 3g high speed connections are available. These are the two most dangerous tricks phone companies use to tack on large fees so do your best to avoid them. OK, so what about long distance? Free long distance on nights and weekends is usually a good plan for most people unless you absolutely have to make long distance calls during the daytime. No matter what plan you choose always make sure to read the contract thoroughly. The last thing you want to see is a $300 dollar phone bill show up in your mailbox.