@austinhuang wrote:
@ladybearbc wrote:
No.....it was prepaid. I just had to dial the #100 and it showed up on my bill
You do pay your plan prices beforehand, but you pay for your long distance afterwards.
Say your billing cycle is April 1 ~ May 1. You pay for the plan price before April 1, but then you made a long distance call on April 10, so you pay that on/after May 1. That's postpaid.
For prepaid: You pay your plan prices, and if you reached your usage included in the plan, you just can't use it anymore (Unless you buy addon, manually, essentially paying before using extra stuff). PM is prepaid.
@austinhuang @ladybearbc some prepaid providers have a "pay as you go" set up, where you load credit and then it deducts from it as you make calls, use data, send texts, etc. It sounds like that's the type of plan @ladybearbc was using previoulsy, and that's why calls to #100 could be billed to her account.
Public Mobile is different, there are NO pay as you go or pay per use charges--you literally must pre-purchase anything before you can use it. For long distance, that means pre-purchasing a block of minutes as noted by previous responses in this thread. They do not expire, and will stay on your account until fully utilized.
If the country(s) you wish to call is not on the list of 18 countries covered by the 400 min long distance package, you will need to make other arrangements such as purchasing a calling card from your local convenience/grocery/drug store.
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