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Get Control Of Peak Minutes On Your Cell Phone Plan
_Many people have cell phone plans that only include a certain number of peak time minutes and then they have to pay charges such as 45-60 cents per minute, for every minute they go over. This can take a normally cheap monthly charge of $39.99 per month and turn it into a $300 cell phone bill.
Trust me, I have seen it happen, especially in times of family emergencies or job searching.
You can get control of your peak cell phone minutes, by not answering incoming calls during the daytime, however, many of these callers then leave a voice message, and calling to check your voicemail costs minutes too. Also, by shortening the greeting that callers have to listen to, you can save yourself minutes.
You need to keep it very short, so that hopefully, they will not tie up your cell phone for longer than a minute, in most cases.
I’ve called phones where the greeting is a voice that says, please listen to the music while we locate your party, so for several minutes, you are forced to listen to some song that is blaring in the phone, that you have never heard before, or dislike.
These people don’t realize that not only are they costing themselves cell phone minutes, but costing the caller, too. Try to be considerate of cell phone minute charges, and leave a short to the point greeting and messages.
Another option could be looking into a professional answering service to forward your home phone or cell phone to during periods when you are unable to answer your phone, or about to go over in peak time minutes. You can control when you take your calls and not waste the minimum one minute charge numerous times per day.
The professional answering service can gather messages for you and you can call from an office phone or your cell phone and still save minutes, since most cell phone calls charge a minimum of one minute, even when calling your voicemail for getting messages. This will also save on peak minutes when your children may be calling you for nonsense things that don’t warrant wasting minutes.
You may need to come up with a plan to maximize phone coverage during peak times with your professional answering service and also discuss peak minutes and the answering service with your children.
The kids will tend to call less, when they get a stranger picking up the phone, and it will help screen out emergency calls and important calls when you are busy doing other things.
Kids have a way of wasting a lot of cell phone minutes during peak time, without regard for the high cost. To children, everything seems important, but to a working parent with a limited number of peak minutes, it can become expensive.
You can get control over your peak minutes and actually save money by having a professional answering service to help with your daytime calls. Sometimes, this is still a more affordable way to go, and can save the expense of a home phone, as well.
Trust me, I have seen it happen, especially in times of family emergencies or job searching.
You can get control of your peak cell phone minutes, by not answering incoming calls during the daytime, however, many of these callers then leave a voice message, and calling to check your voicemail costs minutes too. Also, by shortening the greeting that callers have to listen to, you can save yourself minutes.
You need to keep it very short, so that hopefully, they will not tie up your cell phone for longer than a minute, in most cases.
I’ve called phones where the greeting is a voice that says, please listen to the music while we locate your party, so for several minutes, you are forced to listen to some song that is blaring in the phone, that you have never heard before, or dislike.
These people don’t realize that not only are they costing themselves cell phone minutes, but costing the caller, too. Try to be considerate of cell phone minute charges, and leave a short to the point greeting and messages.
Another option could be looking into a professional answering service to forward your home phone or cell phone to during periods when you are unable to answer your phone, or about to go over in peak time minutes. You can control when you take your calls and not waste the minimum one minute charge numerous times per day.
The professional answering service can gather messages for you and you can call from an office phone or your cell phone and still save minutes, since most cell phone calls charge a minimum of one minute, even when calling your voicemail for getting messages. This will also save on peak minutes when your children may be calling you for nonsense things that don’t warrant wasting minutes.
You may need to come up with a plan to maximize phone coverage during peak times with your professional answering service and also discuss peak minutes and the answering service with your children.
The kids will tend to call less, when they get a stranger picking up the phone, and it will help screen out emergency calls and important calls when you are busy doing other things.
Kids have a way of wasting a lot of cell phone minutes during peak time, without regard for the high cost. To children, everything seems important, but to a working parent with a limited number of peak minutes, it can become expensive.
You can get control over your peak minutes and actually save money by having a professional answering service to help with your daytime calls. Sometimes, this is still a more affordable way to go, and can save the expense of a home phone, as well.