It's been 6 months since I
got my PAYG SIM card from T-Mobile. While I haven't come close to keeping the $100/1000 minutes till Monday, January 8, 2007, I've done my bare minimum of 6 months. Considering the fact that my usage has actually gone up a bit it's still pretty good. If I average out the usage it's about $16.67 vs. my original estimate of $8.33. All things considered I don't think I could find a cheaper mobile phone service without having a contract. It's also quite surprising how easily one can get by with a nice old Nokia 6610 when they realize having the latest and greatest phone with all sorts of data options isn't really that important
.
UPDATE: T-Mobile to Go is no longer all that... Beginning 8/15/06 T-Mobile will start charging $.05 per SMS received.