How you go about getting free mobile phone airtime will depend largely on which phone network your handset is on. Many providers, including Virgin, T-Mobile, Verizon and AllTel offer schemes which allow their customers to gain airtime as part of wider promotional campaigns. Take Virgin, for example, who offer a friends scheme which can earn you $20 of free mobile airtime when you introduce a friend to the network on a pay-as-you-go deal. You can induct up to eight friends a year to Virgin Mobile, earning you a princely $160 of free pay-as-you-go credit over the course of a twelve month period.
Similarly, T-Mobile offers its customers a 'favorite friends' program which goes under the name of 'Fav-5'. You can register up to five contacts under this popular scheme, all of whom you can ring and text without using up your airtime allocation for the month. This deal is also available for pay-as-you-go customers with a certain amount of calling credit on their sim card - not just those who are on long-term credit contracts. Also offered by T-Mobile is the $100 airtime scheme, which gives you 1000 free minutes over a year-long time period. Included in this program is free national roaming over the T-Mobile USA Network.
Whenever you're signing up for a program which promises you a certain amount of free airtime, be sure to look at the terms and conditions. In some cases, customers on a range of networks have been promised free airtime, only to find out that this expires and is no longer usable after a set length of time. If you can't decipher whether or not this is the case from the small print, ring up your network provider and enquire about how long their 'free' airtime lasts for: Forever or for as little as a week.
Similarly, T-Mobile offers its customers a 'favorite friends' program which goes under the name of 'Fav-5'. You can register up to five contacts under this popular scheme, all of whom you can ring and text without using up your airtime allocation for the month. This deal is also available for pay-as-you-go customers with a certain amount of calling credit on their sim card - not just those who are on long-term credit contracts. Also offered by T-Mobile is the $100 airtime scheme, which gives you 1000 free minutes over a year-long time period. Included in this program is free national roaming over the T-Mobile USA Network.
Whenever you're signing up for a program which promises you a certain amount of free airtime, be sure to look at the terms and conditions. In some cases, customers on a range of networks have been promised free airtime, only to find out that this expires and is no longer usable after a set length of time. If you can't decipher whether or not this is the case from the small print, ring up your network provider and enquire about how long their 'free' airtime lasts for: Forever or for as little as a week.
