• guyrocket
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      24 months ago

      Really. Can you get a burner phone for anything close to $3/mo?

      • @[email protected]
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        54 months ago

        There was a service that only charged if the phone was used that day. A family member of mine would turn on their phone once a month, check messages, make a few calls, and then turn the phone off until the next month. I think they were paying about $2 a month.

        • guyrocket
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          14 months ago

          This is interesting. Do you know the company name and/or have a link?

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            Not a clue. They got it from inside of one of the big box stores or grocery stores, so I guess from one of those little kiosks they sometimes have.

      • @[email protected]
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        44 months ago

        That exact price with a new phone? No.

        Like $10 a month or less by reusing phone hardware with new Sim cards to use occasionally for sms verifications? Yes.

        • key
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          54 months ago

          You don’t get the visceral experience of snapping the phone in half that way.

          • DebatableRaccoon
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            24 months ago

            Not exactly an endorsement. I had unlimited calls, texts and 20GB of 4G data for less than 10 dollars for a few years until the recent price hike every company decided they wanted a slice of. Even then, it came out at about 11 bucks. North American phone packages are a joke with all the oligopoly BS going on.