Does anyone know of a major name phone card supplier where the minutes don't expire over time if you don't use them? I want to toss a phone card into my EDC but more than a few I've seen say (in very small print) that they expire if not used within a year or so.

I can't think of any prepaid phone cards that do not expire. Depending on what you need, one alternative are phone cards that are associated to your home phone service or home long distance carrier. Those cards will never expire. You might have to pay slightly higher per minute charges, but there is no monthly charge to keep the card.

I keep a simm card for a mobile phone in my urban psk, that has 100 prepaid minutes on it. I know where I go (urban environments), I can always find an unlocked mobile.

Its not ment to be a guarantee phone call, but more of a nice feature.

I remembered seeing non-expiring cards from Verizon at Costco. Take a look at their website here. Sam's Club sells an AT&T version. Have to think other retailers sell them too.

Direct link to AT&T's site here where they sell them direct. Notice that they warn about same card bought from a retailer may have expiring minutes.

Dan

Edit: See I duplicated info posting simultaneously.

I carry an AT&T Prepaid Card in my wallet that I bought at a Sam's Club in 1998. I put 400 minutes on it then and used about 170 over the next year. It's sat in my wallet or car PSK since, and I just checked the balance when I saw this thread, and it's still active and still has 231 minutes left.

Interesting, cards directly bought from AT&T don't expire. I've seen "AT&T" cards sold retail but they all expired. I wonder if those weren't just third party companies that bought minutes from AT&T but still advertised their service as being provided by AT&T?

Anyway, handy info to know.

I have tried to use pre-paid cards and other services where you have a toll-free number and PIN from payphones in some areas where the payphone is 'owned' by a store or whatever - the payphone did not allow dialing 800 numbers. This was many years ago; have things changed so that private payphones will let all numbers be dialed?

I have used a AT&T card bought at Sam's club for close to 9 years. I started with 500 minutes on the card and am only about 1/3 of the way through it. Those minutes don't expire and I can add to them.

Try at&t I have a fye card that has'nt expired. My card is an at-t/fye card.


Lee

What would be really cool is prepaid cell phones with minutes that don't expire. I'd be all over that...

-john