Children and Prepaid Cell Phones

In case you haven’t noticed today’s’ teens seem to be in almost constant contact with the friends. They are either talking on the cell phone, sending text messages, email or instant messages all the time. Even though many cell phone providers offer family plans it can still get expensive especially if they over their limits.

This is why many parents are now opting to have a prepaid cell phone for their children, especially teenagers. This way they can’t go over their allotted minutes and leave you with a big surprise on your cell phone bill.

Prepaid cell phones are a good choice for children because:
*No long-term contract
*No deposit required
*Get a different phone easily
*Easy to add more time to
*No surprises on your cell phone bill

These are good reasons to get a prepaid cell phone for your children, because it can be cost effective in many ways. Aside from being able to help them budget their phone time, it can also save you a bundle if your child should lose or break the cell phone. 

Unless you have one of those handset insurance plans on your traditional cell phone service you could be out several hundred dollars if you have to replace a cell phone because it got lost, stolen or damaged in some way. With a prepaid cell phone this isn’t an issue. You just go right out and buy a new phone without all the hassles!

Teenagers especially like the prepaid cell phones because they can easily go buy more minutes if they need to. One prepaid cell phone provider “Boost Mobile” caters to the younger generation and promote their product to the 14-25 age group. They do this by developing products that would appeal to teens and treating them like valued customers.

This has proven to be a good marketing strategy for them as Boost Mobile is one of the fastest growing pay-as-you-go service providers in the US and they currently have over 4 million customers! Since they take such good care of their customers the word of mouth advertising pays off in spades for them. Maybe the other wireless service providers should take lessons from them.