One of the most worrisome parts of being a parent is when your kids are away from home. Many parents have opted to provide a way to communicate with their children when they’re away such as adding a line with their current service provider. However, sometimes this can lead to unexpected overages and unforeseen budgetary constraints.
This is where Tru SIM could come in quite useful. Because it’s completely pay as you go, there is no need to worry about overages. Tru SIM will work with any GSM enabled phone — including Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android devices, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone devices — which gives parents the ability to provide an older device to their children for use with the service instead of buying a brand new, expensive device that could be lost or even stolen.
The average individual’s cell phone bill is up by 31% since 2009, to $71 USD a month, reports J.D. Power & Associates. And for a family of four who all have smartphones, the tab can easily top $200 USD. Putting a budgetary limit on Tru SIM of, say, $60 USD can help you save at least $120 per year, maybe even more if you opt for a tighter budget for your child’s Tru account.
While many carriers offer blocking services to prevent overages, these services can cost $5 or even $10 per month, money that could be spent to purchase extra texting or airtime with your Tru account, whose pay as you go nature lends itself to a budget-friendly household.
And let’s not forget that college student who is studying abroad. Tru SIM has practical use in these areas, especially in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, where the rates are lower and the coverage is better. With a UK number, Tru SIM allows free incoming calls to the UK number, which gives parents more spending power while being able to keep in contact with their students. Adding a local number for the US or Australia (depending on the country in which the student is studying) will give the student an all-in-one solution to making and receiving phone calls for their home country and the country in which they are studying. And since it’s all pay as you go, overages are a thing of the past.
In fact, any kind of overseas travel would make Tru SIM a most useful companion. Vacations, holidays, and other getaways do include a certain amount of detachment from everyday life, but when keeping in touch with your friends and family back home, it always helps to have a low-cost, and viable solution with which to communicate.
Tru SIM also has practical uses for a long term phone solution, particularly among those who do not make or receive very many phone calls or send or receive a large number of texts. Rather than pay a monthly bill for a phone that is only rarely used, putting $15 USD on a Tru account per month can save money in the long run while still providing that much needed device for communication.
Tru SIM is the first step in enabling a fully global method of communication that is not dependent on Wi-Fi or having an overly expensive phone bill with a foreign carrier in another country. It allows its users the flexibility to pay only for what they use and not waste hard-earned money for what they don’t. This is a useful enabler of a nearly global method of communication that can be taken most anywhere and still keep you in touch with those who matter to you the most.
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