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Mobile Phone Contracts, Made Cheaper With Prepaid!

By Floyd Smithfield

Instead of looking at prepaid mobile options, most users of mobile phones nowadays buy a cell phone that is tied into a long term contract from a major operator, attracted by the handset subsidy. This leads to being tied to an often sub-standard price agreement. If this has happened to you, you can still save money by combining a prepaid cell plan with your existing plan.

There are lots of tricks that you can use to your advantage by getting a prepaid mobile and using it in conjunction with your existing cell phone. Just read on. You will learn how to identify the main areas where you can save money on your calls.

Also, if you go for a prepaid mobile plan to complement your existing one you should consider dual SIM card cell phones, which you can use with both phone lines at the same time. There are several dual SIM handsets on the market, and they range from cheap and basic ones to advanced multimedia devices.

If you don't want to invest in a new phone, you can either get an extra old handset and carry two phones around, one for your prepaid mobile SIM and the other one for the contract, or search the Internet for a SIM duplication device. These cheap and little pieces of circuitry fit two SIMs into the slot of your existing phone and allow you to transform it into a dual SIM phone in no time!

Concerning the uses of a prepaid mobile paired with a contract, the biggest savings are to be made with long distance and international calls. If you often make these calls, you will be astounded at the savings that you will be able to make by getting a dedicated pay as you go card for these calls, and also at the convenience of having it in a phone instead of having to dial a clumsy set of extra numbers, as with traditional long distance cards.

If you place your calls mainly at certain times of the day, you should consider a dedicated card, such as an off-peak or a weekend card. These offer great calling rates during specific times of the day or of the week, and you could use your main contract during the day and your prepaid mobile at other times.

Another common and fantastic kind of options for prepaid mobiles are text-heavy plans. These are mainly marketed at young people, but there is no reason why anyone else could not benefit from them. They offer text messages at up to a tenth of normal contract plans, and often include unlimited use of an instant messaging program such as MSN Messenger.

If you find browsing the internet while on the move useful, you will be pleased to learn that using the internet on your phone with a prepaid mobile number can be cheaper than doing the same over the biggest enterprise contracts. With the right pay as you go card, reading emails or looking at an interactive map will be cheaper than on your contract.

Many prepaid mobile plans combine the features mentioned above, plus others. If you shop around and take advantage of the Internet's fantastic ability of helping you compare services, such as prepaid mobile tariffs, you will find the right one for you, wherever you live in the world.

This may also be a good time to check when your contract will be expiring, as at that point you will be able to move your main phone number to a prepaid mobile service that may be more to your liking, thus saving money on all calls and other cell phone services that you use!

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