Data - text - talk

[oregonrambler1]

Has anyone had experience with the unlimited data / text / talk pay-as-you-go phone from WalMart? I was just wondering how good the service was and if it's a pain in the you-know-what to have a pay-as-you-go phone.

[Birdie]

I haven't had the Wal Mart brand. However, there are places that my AT&T wouldn't work traveling to and through AK this summer and i bought a Trac Fone at K-Mart. It is a pay for minutes and you have so many service days and minutes. Can talk and text. I didn't get the data super duper plan...just the cheap one. That has really be very good in addition to the AT&T phone. I normally always have service now. The AT&T is normally always available, but I did run into the some no signal areas in Montana this Spring. I like it and will keep it as a second phone as long as I am traveling.

[retiredhappy]

On my trip to South Dakota Carole with her Walmart phone had better service than I did with my Sprint. Her phone was using AT%T towers. Check which towers those various phones use. Some of them use both AT&T and Verizon towers and some only use AT&T or Sprint. Most of the phones don't offer data but I believe, you can buy data cards separately. Most parks these days seem to have pretty good WiFi compared to what it was years ago.

[oregonrambler1]

Thank you for the info. Walmart has two plans now that are data / text / talk, one is $30.00/month for a 'timed' plan, the other is unlimited for $45.00 / month (after 2G download you might get slower download speeds but I'm not planning on downloading movies or anything like that, just want to access the internet). I often have to leave my laptop at home for our son because it is the 'business' computer so I just want internet access while I'm on the road, WiFi at campgrounds and such, no help. We're leaving in the morning for a rally on the coast but I think I'm going to look into this in depth when we get home. I'm also thinking that our current cell phone, which isn't 'texting' friendly, I can turn into a 100 minute/month pay card (for like $10.00) so I basically can have two cell phones for what we are paying now for one and add data to boot!