Sharing the wealth.
Sharing the wealth.
Originally shared by Emmaly Wilson
Want to get a phone on Ting with $50 off? Use the link below.
Ting is a no-contract, non-prepaid cell phone carrier that charges you what you actually use instead of charging you for whatever silly plan you picked. You're going to want to take a peek at the plans page. So if you got a 1000 minute plan but only used 200 minutes, you're not paying for 1000 minutes. If you went over 1000, you're not paying overage fees; it just kicks you up to the next tier for the month. If you don't use it at all for a whole month, your tier will drop to the lowest tier, which is $0.
Also, USB tethering and WiFI hotspot powered by your phone is free, unlike all the other carriers that charge you extra for this.
And your plan minutes, data usage, and text messages are all shared across all phones on your account. Each phone costs $6. If you buy your mom a phone on your account and she only uses it a tiny bit, it effectively only costs you $6. The website lets you have up to 20 phones on your account and they encourage you to buy phones for your friends and family (it's not considered to be abuse of the system to do so).
The lowest your bill can possibly be is $6 per phone. So if you don't use your service at all in a month, you only pay $6 per phone on your account and no fees for minutes/data/messages. If you use a little bit of minutes, data, and messages (less than 100 of each) across all of your phones, your lowest fee for the month is $9 for the data/minutes/messages and $6 per phone. This means that if you buy your grandmother an emergency-only phone for her to leave in the car and she never, ever uses it, it only costs you $6 each month.
Ting is a Sprint MVNO run by Tucows (which runs OpenSRS). You might remember Tucows from the late '90s. This means that your Ting service works anywhere Sprint works.
The catch right now is that you can't bring your own phone and you have to buy one of theirs. They say that this is a Sprint-enforced rule but haven't gone into detail about it. Their phones aren't terribly expensive, so that is probably okay, especially if you're against having contracts. By the way, if you were a direct Sprint customer then you have to be in a 2-year contract even if you bring your own phone. On Ting you're not in a contract, period. If I hadn't already had a Sprint contract, I would have gone with Ting myself as I'm a huge fan of their plan structure and lack of contracts.
The link below is sponsored. If you remove the offer code on the checkout page, then my cut is removed. Feel free to do so if you don't want me to benefit from your purchase. If you didn't use the link but you want the $50 discount, use the offer code "VTIMR11" at checkout.
http://goo.gl/qsq3t
Originally shared by Emmaly Wilson
Want to get a phone on Ting with $50 off? Use the link below.
Ting is a no-contract, non-prepaid cell phone carrier that charges you what you actually use instead of charging you for whatever silly plan you picked. You're going to want to take a peek at the plans page. So if you got a 1000 minute plan but only used 200 minutes, you're not paying for 1000 minutes. If you went over 1000, you're not paying overage fees; it just kicks you up to the next tier for the month. If you don't use it at all for a whole month, your tier will drop to the lowest tier, which is $0.
Also, USB tethering and WiFI hotspot powered by your phone is free, unlike all the other carriers that charge you extra for this.
And your plan minutes, data usage, and text messages are all shared across all phones on your account. Each phone costs $6. If you buy your mom a phone on your account and she only uses it a tiny bit, it effectively only costs you $6. The website lets you have up to 20 phones on your account and they encourage you to buy phones for your friends and family (it's not considered to be abuse of the system to do so).
The lowest your bill can possibly be is $6 per phone. So if you don't use your service at all in a month, you only pay $6 per phone on your account and no fees for minutes/data/messages. If you use a little bit of minutes, data, and messages (less than 100 of each) across all of your phones, your lowest fee for the month is $9 for the data/minutes/messages and $6 per phone. This means that if you buy your grandmother an emergency-only phone for her to leave in the car and she never, ever uses it, it only costs you $6 each month.
Ting is a Sprint MVNO run by Tucows (which runs OpenSRS). You might remember Tucows from the late '90s. This means that your Ting service works anywhere Sprint works.
The catch right now is that you can't bring your own phone and you have to buy one of theirs. They say that this is a Sprint-enforced rule but haven't gone into detail about it. Their phones aren't terribly expensive, so that is probably okay, especially if you're against having contracts. By the way, if you were a direct Sprint customer then you have to be in a 2-year contract even if you bring your own phone. On Ting you're not in a contract, period. If I hadn't already had a Sprint contract, I would have gone with Ting myself as I'm a huge fan of their plan structure and lack of contracts.
The link below is sponsored. If you remove the offer code on the checkout page, then my cut is removed. Feel free to do so if you don't want me to benefit from your purchase. If you didn't use the link but you want the $50 discount, use the offer code "VTIMR11" at checkout.
http://goo.gl/qsq3t
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