Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 7 Apr 91 14:31:59 CDT From: TELECOM Moderator Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Cellular Phones for $29 Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 274, Message 8 of 8 Lines: 24 Has the bottom dropped out of the cellular phone market? I cannot imagine it has, yet consider these pending offers in Chicago from Ameritech and Cellular One: Cellular phones for $29 at the Ace Hardware chain. Or, should you want something a little more fancy, the Motorola bag phone, with an Ameritech label on the front of it for $49. Minimum commitment to Ameritech is six months. And what do you have to pay per month? For $29, you get 40 minutes of time to use day or night as you wish ... additional non-prime minutes are 4 (yes, four) cents each! Prime minutes are 40 cents each. Cellular One has the same offer, and in theirs you get the first thirty days of non-prime time free. All the non-prime usage you want at no charge. In both the Cellular One and Ameritech offers, the $29 also gets you two months of custom calling free. Those guys must really be scraping for new customers! PAT