There are a lot of different prepaid mobile offers on the US market, and it’s important to compare so that you can choose the one that suits you best and that will save you the most money. The various operators differ a lot in that respect.

Bear in mind that with prepaid mobiles, you will pay a certain sum in advance to charge your credit and will then use that credit for calls and other services. The sums that you can recharge your credit with us ally range from between 10$ and 100$.

One important thing to watch is the duration of your credit. If you don’t top up your credit regularly, the credit will expire. The time this can take is variable, from as short as a single month to up to a year, and it’s one of the things that you should watch put for, especially if you don’t use your prepaid mobile a lot.

You will still be able to make calls if without credit, but you’ll still need to add money to your prepaid mobile account eventually or your phone line will eventually be cancelled, and you will have to pay to get it reactivated.

Before getting that prepaid mobile, you should of course also make sure that your the carrier of choice has a good coverage in the area where you live, as well as in other places in the country where you tend to hang out.

As for the actual prepaid mobile providers, Virgin Mobile is probably the best overall operator, and its customer service is also quite good. Pay-as-you-go cards are very convenient. For $20, you can get 200 talk time minutes, which is much cheaper than several competitors. Unused credit only rolls over for 30 days though, and only if you top up some more.

T-Mobile is one of the few operators offering nice handsets together with prepaid mobile contracts, so if you would like a new multimedia phone rather than a basic device, this is the best carrier. If you top your pay as you go credit up in chunks of 100$, they will last a whole year.

TracFone is renowned for the good call quality on its network, and for relatively decent pricing, at 20 cents a minute for prepaid mobile calls. As there is no difference between recharging your prepaid mobile account with big or small amounts, this carrier is good if you want to top up small amounts.

MetroPCS also offers good service and rates, but its prepaid mobile service is only available in 33 states. This includes the most populous ones, so there is a good chance that this carrier will be available to you, though. Avoid it if you travel a lot out of state though, as their roaming and long distance rates are quite steep for prepaid mobiles.

If your calls are usually grouped on few days, such as on weekends, you should look at a Cingular prepaid mobile plan. A $100 credit is valid for a year, and you are then charged $1 every day that you use your phone, plus $0.10 a minute.