Posted by: yekloyatri December 27, 2007
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Dear Fearzone,
Looking at the situation you have few but limited options. Please be wise to pick them as it best suits you.
a. Since you just received your credit card its most likely that it will take another 5-6 months for you to get your credit score up and if you have a credit card with $1000 you wont have to put a deposit since the credit card is a major factor in increasing your credit score. So it will definitely take time. Don't get any cell phone rite now. Wait for another 5-6 months and then apply again with Cingular. You would get one with zero deposit.
b. As someone has mentioned above, yes you can deposit that $500 its not a bad idea, Take it like a saving that you would use after a year. They would refund your $500 after one year or two years(please check this if you are going to sign the contract with them) and i think its not a bad idea. But be prepared to put down at least $700-800 up front since ($500 deposit + $36 activation fee + $40 first month bill + $100 (depending on the phone you like if you dont wanna get free phone )).
c. There is another way to get around this issue. Some phone companies such as verizon would create your account without social security number. You can mention that you don't to use your social security and they will run a background check on you. Now i dont know how much that would cost and how much amount they might ask you. And i am also not sure weather AT&T would do that. But there is nothing wrong on checking with them.
d. You can consider sprint, lets say if AT & T is asking you $500 then most likely sprint will ask you for $250 this is the case as they want more costumer. Call their costumer service and ask them about the roaming charges or go to www.sprint.com and search as roaming charges you would see all of them listed there. Sprint is a Reston,VA based company which is tumbling around due to lack of proper guidance since they are switching their CEO's quite often. And their service is not as good as AT &T and verizon.
e.Another option is prepaid and this is a very good option. If you plan to go by option "a" as listed above then for that 5-6 months you can get a prepaid phone for backup. It should cost your $50 a month with cingular. And you can buy a really cheap A T & T phone from www.ebay.com This will save you lot of money and you wont have to invest $500 since you are pay in advance.
I hope this helps you to predict on what you really want to get?
Best Wishes,
YekloYatri
Looking at the situation you have few but limited options. Please be wise to pick them as it best suits you.
a. Since you just received your credit card its most likely that it will take another 5-6 months for you to get your credit score up and if you have a credit card with $1000 you wont have to put a deposit since the credit card is a major factor in increasing your credit score. So it will definitely take time. Don't get any cell phone rite now. Wait for another 5-6 months and then apply again with Cingular. You would get one with zero deposit.
b. As someone has mentioned above, yes you can deposit that $500 its not a bad idea, Take it like a saving that you would use after a year. They would refund your $500 after one year or two years(please check this if you are going to sign the contract with them) and i think its not a bad idea. But be prepared to put down at least $700-800 up front since ($500 deposit + $36 activation fee + $40 first month bill + $100 (depending on the phone you like if you dont wanna get free phone )).
c. There is another way to get around this issue. Some phone companies such as verizon would create your account without social security number. You can mention that you don't to use your social security and they will run a background check on you. Now i dont know how much that would cost and how much amount they might ask you. And i am also not sure weather AT&T would do that. But there is nothing wrong on checking with them.
d. You can consider sprint, lets say if AT & T is asking you $500 then most likely sprint will ask you for $250 this is the case as they want more costumer. Call their costumer service and ask them about the roaming charges or go to www.sprint.com and search as roaming charges you would see all of them listed there. Sprint is a Reston,VA based company which is tumbling around due to lack of proper guidance since they are switching their CEO's quite often. And their service is not as good as AT &T and verizon.
e.Another option is prepaid and this is a very good option. If you plan to go by option "a" as listed above then for that 5-6 months you can get a prepaid phone for backup. It should cost your $50 a month with cingular. And you can buy a really cheap A T & T phone from www.ebay.com This will save you lot of money and you wont have to invest $500 since you are pay in advance.
I hope this helps you to predict on what you really want to get?
Best Wishes,
YekloYatri