Why I’m saving money on my cell phone bill?

Over the past two-three months I’ve been working at lowering my monthly cell phone bill. My strategy: Use another cell phone service carrier/provider. Basically, now I have two cell numbers that I use. One for all my work calls and the other for my personal ones.

My main service provider is Vodafone Albania, however, I am very dissatisfied with their tariffs and cannot help as it is provided by my employer for work related calls. In the past I would use the same number to make my personal calls as well, and then pay for them at the end of the month when the bill would come. However, I was paying about 6,000 Lek just on personal calls. That had to end.

What did I do ?
When Eagle Mobile came out I figured out their tariffs would be better, and in some regards there were. However, I did some calculations and figured out that if I were to use an Eagle Mobile number for all my calls toward the other carriers Vodafone Albania and AMC, then I would end up paying almost the same tariffs as I was already doing.

I figured that since majority of my monthly cell phone calls were being made to a select number of people, that if I could convince them to buy themselves another cell number, we could all use the Riniring tariffs amongst ourselves. That’s what we did.

Just today I was looking at my December cell phone bill from Vodafone and when I added up all my personal calls it came up to about 2,000 Lek. Yes now I’m paying 4,000 Lek less on my Vodafone bill. Meanwhile, I’m paying only 800 Lek monthly for all my Eagle Mobile calls. In all I’m saving about 3,200 Lek a month on all my personal calls and savings are expected to go a little higher as I’ve gotten another friend of mine to use Eagle Mobile for our calls together.

In closing
I don’t know if this works for everyone, but it is working for me. Oh, and by the way please don’t take this as any type of advertising for Eagle Mobile, since I think that they are not playing it fair either. But that is another post.

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3 Responses to Why I’m saving money on my cell phone bill?

  1. Jenny Bell says:

    Hi I have recently come back from Albania and came across so many stray cats and dogs living on the streets in the town Lezhe. I brought back a puppy to England that had been very badly neglected. He would have died quite soon if we hadn’t have saved him. I have searched high and low for an animal sanctuary in Albania and there appears to be none. It saddens me that there are so many stray cats and dogs with no homes and no food with multiple illnesses. Do you know of any organisation/ animal rescue shelter in Albania?

    Thank you
    Jenny Bell

  2. elvis says:

    Hi there Jenny,
    thanks for bringing this issue up. I would not be able to tell you if there is such a place at all. The best thing would be to have him adopted by a friend or acquaintance of yours. Otherwise, I don’t know of any better solutions.

    Regards,
    Elvis

  3. Jenny Bell says:

    The puppy that I rescued from Albania has made a full recovery here in England. Hes got a great home. Can I ask you how Albanians view cats and dogs? Do people leave them on hte streets to die or do any of them take them in to be their pets? I have never seen so many stray animals in any other country before. Something urgently needs to be done to help the stray animals
    Thanks
    Jenny Bell

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