Given the increasing use of "two factor authorization" which sends a "good for five minutes" password via sms text to your phone, plus lots of other reasons to have a textable cell phone that's NOT my or my wife's "real" one [a], I figured I'd get a Tracfone or similar prepaid cheapie.
More and more areas are adding specialized cellco taxes and "911 fees" and non tax taxes, etc. which they're extending to the pre-paid accounts (up to now they've usually forgotten about them...) which will quickly eat up the balances.
Since 99 pct of our use would be texting, which is distance and location insensitive, the "home area" doesn't matter. And while a "where is this area code" might sometimes be an issue if we use it for calling, that's something we can deal with.
Any one know of any publicly available list that keeps track of all these fees?
Thanks muchly
[a] Giving it to, say, the IRS would be annoying but not critical. But there are plenty of others where they'd be data mining/sharing and would text out other times and garbage... So we do NOT want to rutinely give out our real phones._____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key snipped-for-privacy@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]