Can the Marbl Virgin Mobile Cell Phone do Pay-as-you-go?

My Mom’s virgin mobile cell phone broke and she got the marbl but it is un-opened. She wants to know if it is pay-as-you-go. I have the Cyclops Virgin Mobile Phone and its is but we don’t know about the Marbl and it doesn’t say it is. Is the Marbl Pay-as-you-go?

Answer by xxx_Emotional Punk_xxx
all virgin mobile cell phones are pay as you go.

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I am going to be in China for some time. All the US companies have horrible tariff for using your domestic cell globally. Does anyone know how much a pay as you go phone and minutes cost in China? I am trying to not get scammed once I get there.

Thanks

Answer by Scott
Of course don’t use your American phone if you’re staying in China for some time. You can get a cheap phone and phone tariff in China pretty cheap.

But, if your phone isn’t locked (by your provider), you may maybe maybe switch out the SIM card and use it. If you got the phone free as part of a contract, it probably is locked, but if you have a really nice phone, it might be worth checking into it with the store you bought it from. The “lock” is just software on the phone that prevents you from using it with additional providers. If you can get it removed, you can use it in China with a Chinese SIM card.

But if you just want to hold a phone here (I live in China), the cheapest new one will cost about 200rmb ($ 29), but there are used or refurbished phones available for as cheap as 100rmb ($ 14.50) or less. You would have to search around to find them (and have a Chinese-speaking helper), but you can walk into any cell phone store and buy one for 200. Say “zui pianyi,” which earnings “cheapest” and the hand should get you that model.

Everyone uses “pay-as-you-go” and the phone cards are available all over to refill your phone. China Mobile (the most well loved provider) charges 0.6rmb ($ 0.09) a small (both calling and receiving), which is 166 minutes on a 100rmb card. To send text messages, though, the rate is even lower, which causes Chinese public to use them reasonably frequently. It costs 0.1rmb ($ 0.01) to send a text message (free to receive), so 100rmb would get you 1000 text messages.

Calling back home from your mobile phone will be reasonably expensive, so I usually just go to a “phone bar” and pay cash up front for it. If calling home is vital to you, the later link has some excellent information about it:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=3266

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