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Page Plus Prepaid Cellular has pretty good coverage, a good selection of phones and buy-one-get-one and buy-one-get-two family offers. A 120-day expiration period for its airtime cards is great, too.

Let's start with the coverage . . .

Page Plus Cellullar Coverage

Page Plus relies on an extensive CDMA/EVDO,Verizon's I think, network to provide it's service. Which means it's pretty reliable.

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You check your own Page Plus Prepaid Cellular coverage here.

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Rates

Page Plus Prepaid Cellular airtime rates are both reasonable and relatively simple.

Standard Prepaid Plans

The Page Plus Cellular standard prepaid plans are a pure pay-as-you-go plan. You can buy airtime refills $10, $25, $50 and $80 increments to get 100, 416, 1000 and 2000 minutes respectively. Refills last 120 days except for the $80 card which is good for a year - a pretty good deal. There is also a 50 cent per month usage fee that is charged on the 25th day of the month. According to Page Plus, you usually won't have to worry about roaming, but in certain areas, you might and will be charged extra.

When I first reviewed their prepaid plans, I went through a few calculations to see what your total costs would be. I haven't updated those calcualations, but you can read them below and make the appropriate adjustments.

Taking all that into account lets see what you actually get with Page Plus airtime:

Page Plus Airtime Refills

The $10 refill has an airtime rate of 12 cents per minute. If you plan to just use $10 refill for the whole 120-day period, then if you subtract the $2.00 usage fee (50 cents per month for four month) you are left with $8.00 at 12 cents per minute which works out to 66 minutes. If you plan to use your cell phone only for emergencies or just very occasionally, then this is a great deal because you end up spending just $2.50 a month to maintain your service if you can really stretch that 10 bucks out to 120 days.
The $25 refill gets you a $2 bonus and has an airtime rate of 9 cents per minute. If you use just this refill card for the entire 120-day period, then subtracting the $2 back out, gives you 277 minutes to use for calling. This give you 69 minutes per month for a cost of just $6.25 a month.
The $50 refill gets you a $6 bonus and has an airtime rate of 8 cents per minute. Again, subtracting $2 to figure out how many minutes for the 120 period gives you 675 minutes. So you get roughly 168 minutes for $12.50 a month.
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The $80 refill gets you a just a $4 bonus but an airtime rate of just 6 cents per minute. This works out to 1366 minutes. So for about $20 a month you get about 340 minutes.

Text and Picture Messages

Standard text messages cost 8 cents each domestically.

International text messages cost 20 cents each to send and receive, which is actually pretty good - both in that it doesn't cost that much and that you can actually send international text messages, which isn't the case with all prepaid cell phone plans.

Picture messages cost 25 cents each plus a Data Rate of $1.20 per MB. Unless you're taking higher resolution pics with a Razr, cell phone pic file sizes tend to be pretty small so it shouldn't cost you too much. Still, it's cheaper to download them to your computer and then email them.

Roaming

Roaming is somewhat expensive at 59 cents per minute. You don't want to spend too much time on the phone at this rate.

International Calls

You can make international calls from your Page Plus Prepaid Cellular phone. Calls to Mexico, Canada and Guam cost 34 cents per minute with a slightly higher rate to cellphones in Mexico. Calls to other countries cost $1.50 a minute which is expensive.

Monthly Plans

Unlimited Plan

Unlimited voice, texts and 500 MB data (so it's not really all unlimited).

Unlimited Talk and Text Plan

The $39.95 monthly Unlimited plan gives your unlimited voice calls, text messages, and 20 MB data transfer for web and email. The only limitation of this plan is the low amount of data transfer provided. For example, according to Consumer Cellular's website, 20 MB should allow you to check the web 3-4 times per day for short periods.

1200 Plan

For 29.95 per month you get 1200 minutes, 3000 texts and 100 MB data. The curious thing is the higher data allowance which potentially makes this a better value that the unlimited talk and text plan.

12 Plan

You get 250 talk minutes and 250 texts/mms and 10 MB of data for just $12 a month - a pretty good deal for an inexpensive plan. You can go a little lower than that if you use their standard prepaid plans and buy airtime cards instead.

Phones

You can find Page Plus Cellular phones at select retailers or you can buy them online. Online, they offer a line of Kyocera phones that include one touchscreen (Rio E3100), a vertical QWERTY handset (Torinia S2300), QWERTY slider (G2GO M200) and one flip phone (Luno S2100). Prices ranges from $40 to $100. (Updated January 2012).

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