[BC] Cell phones

[George Kowal]

Cowboy wrote:
> On Friday 30 May 2008 09:11 pm, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
>   
>>  "...as a condition of continued employment...," the Email memo says, 
>>     
>
>  No problem.
>  You give me one, paid for, and I'll carry it around.
>   
Some employers pay a set monthly expense, say $50 a month to cover your 
cell phone expenses.
With others you may have to sit down once a month and figure out which 
calls are business vs. personal and expense the business calls that way.

If I where in the market for new cell phone service, I would probably go 
with Sprint SERO, which is a special cut rate plan where for $30 a month 
you get 500 minutes and unlimited data, texting and web access. SERO 
stands for Sprint Exclusive Referral Offer, which means that someone who 
works for Sprint gives you there email address which you enter when you 
sign up for the service. Free phone included with the usual 2 year deal. 
If you need a referral email there are several Sprint reps who post 
online to the related newsgroups. 
http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/sprint/epc/epclanding.asp

Actually it looks like savings at sprintemi.com
will work as a valid email address to get you in on that, others say you 
can use the CEO's email address too, dan at sprint.com.
Looks like unlimited text messaging ends tonight at midnight 5/31/08.

There's a forum thread about SERO that's 693 pages long, yikes, at 
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/680568/?start=0

Whichever provider you choose, you need to at least check their coverage 
maps online to see if they cover your locations. You normally get a few 
weeks to try any service to see if the coverage actually works where if 
it does not you can return everything without being held to the 
contract. Other details to check are what's included in the plan such as 
when free minutes or free nights and weekends start. Some plans start as 
early as 6pm, others 7pm, others 9pm, etc.and include weekends, meaning 
all calls during those times are essentially free, not banging into your 
total monthly minutes total.

George Kowal  CBNT