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Prepaid Plans
Prepaid plans let you purchase a set amount of usage, usually in minutes, that's good over a period of time. For example, a popular prepaid plan lets you buy 500 minutes good for up to 12 months. At the end of 12 months, you either lose any minutes you haven't used or need to buy another prepaid plan and can roll over remaining minutes.
Prepaid plans let you purchase a set amount of usage, usually in minutes, that's good over a period of time. For example, a popular prepaid plan lets you buy 500 minutes good for up to 12 months. At the end of 12 months, you either lose any minutes you haven't used or need to buy another prepaid plan and can roll over remaining minutes.
Prepaid plans are simple but have several disadvantages:
- They cannot use local numbers like monthly or annual postpaid plans.
- If your prepaid plan expires, you cannot get the same number again.
- If you need it during an emergency and you run out of airtime it might be inconvenient to add more airtime, for example, after a hurricane.
That said, prepaid remains a good option if you know exactly when, where, and how much airtime you need, have credit challenges, or will be handing the phone to someone you don't trust to use a reasonable amount of airtime. For almost all people, however, Pivotel monthly or annual plans are more affordable and more convenient
Monthly and Annual Postpaid Plans
Pivotel postpaid plans are either monthly or annual. They give a certain amount of value per month, and when call or text the amount is deducted from the included value, or added as a per-minute or per-text charge if you use more than the included value. This has several advantages.
- With Pivotel postpaid plans you can get a truly local number for your satellite phone. It works just like a cell phone number, letting you make and receive calls and text messages easily.
- Monthly plans are more flexible: They can be deactivated any time after the first month. You can keep your number for a small fee when your service is deactivated and use it again whenever you're ready.
- Monthly plans are more convenient: If you have an emergency, you never run out of minutes.
- Monthly plans are controlled: we can add alerts at your request when you use more than a certain amount of minutes to protect you from runaway usage using our Pulsar satellite management service.
- Monthly plans are generally more affordable, even for short-term usage. It's generally a better value to subscribe to a monthly plan for 3 or 6 or 12 months than it is to buy a 3- or 6- or 12-month prepaid plan.