Prepaid Mobiles

I’m going to college in the fall, and I’m moving from Buffalo to NYC, so I’ll obviously need a reliable cell phone. I don’t currently have a working cell phone because my family’s budget is really tight right now and we couldn’t afford out plan with AT&T. But I really need a phone for school in the fall, but since I won’t have time to get a job, my parents are going to have to pay for my phone. My mom has been looking at different pay-as-you-go services, and they’re all either too expensive or they don’t give you nearly enough minutes per month. But I looked at Cricket Mobile, and they have a plan for unlimited talk and texting for $2 a day, or $30 a month. Since my mom would have to pay for both my phone and my sister’s phone, it would be $60 a month. Is this the cheapest plan we’ll be able to find? Is cricket pretty reliable? Where else could we get a cheap, reasonable, and reliable cell phone plan? Thanks!
Wait, I did the math wrong. It would be $60 per phone for unlimited talk and text, and $120 a month for me and my sister. Sorry…
And we don’t need a plan with unlimited everything. Just a plan with a reasonable amount of minutes and at least some texting.

My dad has a prepaid phone with T-Mobile. But on the phone(my blackberry) it says AT@T..how can I make it into a prepaid phone? Can I still use the internet?

Like, T-Mobile, AT&T, SPrint, etc… ?

With Amp’d going out of business… I am left with going to another service and I was wondering what are the chances that my Motorola Hollywood (Motorola 815/816) CDMA phone will be accepted with another cell phone service provider.

with alltels prepaid phone service when they say unlimited mobile to mobile is that to ANY cell phone or just to alltel phones?

I’ve got this phone I need to sell and my client says that it won’t work here because of the frequency or something. Are there any websites you know of that list the service areas for this type of phone? All accessories are included on it…I couldn’t sell it on eBay…so I’m trying to sell it around here if I just knew where it would work or how to make it work around here. Change the SIM card? What wireless providers would work with it…I’ve already googled a bunch of keywords, but…ugh…no luck!

Would you be interested in joining a membership that you can call to get any internet information, from home, car, work, school, from any phone, cell phone, mobile, or email? How much would you be willing to pay per month for it? Would you rather pay per use, per call? How would $5 per month sound to make 5 calls per month and we’ll lookup anything for you provided you promise to use handsfree device when driving or pullover. We give you directions from Yahoo maps, turn by turn info, or weather, locations or nearby addresses, or attractions, we even verify news headlines so you know for sure if your child’s school was affected by the breaking news story or if it was really your block that has the water main break, we settle disputes with historic facts that we can lookup for you, give you any world info you request from the tips of our fingers to your ears, friendly, accurate, helpful service that goes the extra mile. Would you join it? $15 for unlimited calls per/mth. Sound Good?