Switching from a prepaid card to a flat-rate card

Press Release: From the point of view of many, prepaid cards already belong to the mobile age. Nevertheless, their market share is still huge (millions of individual cards) and cannot be waved over. Is it still worth topping up your credit?

For many people, shopping for credit still has certain advantages, but this is often due to ignorance or reluctance to secure more favorable conditions for a flat rate. So to whom the prepaid is worth it and who should choose mobile tariff paid flat rate?

Relative freedom, but at a higher price

Prepaid cards are especially popular with several types of people. Seniors like them because they often don't use mobile services so much that they don't have enough credit. At the same time, they do not have to deal with more complex administrative tasks, such as concluding a flat-rate contract with an operator.

Parents of children also sometimes choose the variant of top-up credit on a prepaid card for their children. In this way, it is easier for them to control the amount that goes to the child's mobile phone from the family budget. Even outside the older and very young years, however, we can still find enough supporters of prepaid cards.

Subscriber anonymity

Concerns about the misuse of mobile users' personal data have been growing recently, and some people see subscriptions as an easy way to stay more anonymous. In addition, owners of prepaid cards do not need to be bound by a contract with the operator, which is usually concluded for 2 years.

All these apparent pluses also have a very dark side in the form of generally more expensive services. If you use your mobile phone for a variety of tasks on a daily basis, then gradually topping up credit can make a much bigger hole in your wallet than a regular monthly flat rate. Despite the fact that forgetting to top up your credit can get you into trouble in places where you absolutely need to call and don't have access to top up options.

Yes, operators try to notify you of a low credit level in advance with SMS messages, but one long conversation is enough and it will easily disappear. By the way, you can also use prepaid cards these days, of course call unlimited.

No benefits

From the user's point of view, the tariff should save money, and it does not have to be only about called minutes or sent SMS messages. Operators often offer favorable prices for new devices, whether mobile phones or even tablets, in the event of a flat rate. Owners of prepaid cards completely miss out on these favorable offers and usually do not even get other preferential services, for example in the form of cheaper data. Often, you will only receive a temporary discount with a prepaid card in connection with the reward for top-up credit.

It is a good deal?

You don't have to be literally glued to your mobile phone 24 hours a day to make good use of the flat rate. Because the packages start at today's very favorable prices (which sometimes do not even exceed the price of one recharged credit), you can get all the beneficial aspects of the flat rate without increasing the payment for the mobile phone. Even for seniors who are not fond of surfing the Internet on their mobile phone, the basic data package, which is part of practically every flat-rate tariff, can come in handy.

You don't have to worry about the complexity of the process of changing from prepaid to flat-rate. Just go to the store of a specific operator, call the customer line, or select a tariff online. When the customer decides choose Vodafone for example, then after the telephone agreement, he will receive a letter with the delivery, and after sending the delivery only an SMS about the activation of the required services.

In summary, even if you don't use your prepaid phone excessively, you may be paying a lot more for top-ups and getting a lot less benefits than you would with a postpaid plan.