Mobile Phones now became a basic need for people as it helps them facilitate their business and routine work of daily life. Since last few years the number of mobile users is increasing every minute and opening the door for new companies to enter into the market as the most prominent mobile service providers.
When a company starts mobile services for vast range of mobile users; it comes with two options as postpaid services and prepaid services. Both the services are different in many ways from each other. Both of these kinds have their own beauty and drawbacks in terms of advantages and disadvantages respectively. In this article we would know the major differences and features of Postpaid Mobile Services and Prepaid Mobile Services as well.
Billing Process
If you have chosen a Postpaid Mobile Services; it means you are billed at the end of your billing cycle (A billing cycle is tenure of one month time) for all your services used during one billing cycle. When you receive your bill, you are given a certain time as due date and the service provider expects you to pay the bill by the due date. In case you are failed to do so they might disconnect your services until you make the due payment.
But in case of Prepaid Mobile Services, the scene is totally different. With a Prepaid Mobile Service you are required to pay in advance or you have to purchase various range of talk time. Once you purchase or pay them for their services, you are given a certain amount of talk value and use minutes as per the scheme you are opted for. Also, you have to refill your prepaid account once it gets exhausted.
Services and Networks
In various cases, services offered to postpaid customers and prepaid customers are different. For instance, some postpaid connection may not offer displaying minute by minute billing update on your mobile screen that makes you unaware about your daily calling expense. While some prepaid connection may not offer GPRS and other Value Added Services to entertain the user's communication practices and daftar onexox postpaid vise-versa.
A few times back there were a large numbers of complaints that the networks of postpaid and prepaid services are different and prepaid connections are supposed to have better network than the postpaid. But this is quite rare today and one should check whether the service provider runs both the postpaid and prepaid services in the same network or not...??
Costs
There is a general myth among the people that the costs of prepaid services are lesser than the cost of calling via postpaid. But the fact is different and in many cases the cost of calling from a prepaid connection may higher than what it may in case of postpaid if you are making too many and too long calls. On the contrary as being a postpaid customer you are bounded to pay the rentals and other service charges, no matters whether you have used a single minute of service or not.
Here one should check out their calling practices before they opt for postpaid and Prepaid Mobile Services.