Budget Mobile Budget LifelineBudget Mobile Lifeline Scamming government for providing phone service Bossier City Louisiana

I wanted to clarify (my second response) LIFE WIRELESS is a legitimate wonderful alternative to Budget Wireless....I am in my 2nd month with this phone and it works great.  They offer 2 plans in California.

1. First Plan

1250 Talk/Text  Talk: 1 minute=1 minute :-)/Text: 3 texts =1 minute 250 MBs of Free data & 250 Free MMs

2. Second Plan

Unlimited Talk & Text ... NO Data...NO MMS (Picture Messaging)

Also this phone service does not allow you to received voice blasts (electronic messages sent out to groups of people)

Budget gets paid for providing the phone service.

I have not always been a low income person who qualified for these type of phones.

Many people that do are disabled and can be very critical for them to have a working phone in times of emergency.  They deserve to have phones that work.

YES IT IS A RIPOFF if someone is getting PAID for services they do NOT provide and are giving out defective merchandise.  These companies are getting paid for each person they give a phone to.  When the phone won't work and they can't cancel with these companies...they continue with the scam.

I also reported this because many people complain that those receiving free phones are scamming the system and getting more than 1 phone.  The truth is some people do this because they have a broken phone that they can't get anyone to replace & the company refuses to delete them as someone they are providing service to.

The truth is that people who sign others up get paid per phone.  Many of them LIE about what will be provided.  They enter false information and then someone ends up with a phone that doesn't work and they cannot get the issue resolved.

After 60 days in Calfornia a person is able to switch to a different company.  I switched to Life Wireless which is backed by AT&T.  I received a BLU phone. This is the 3rd company I have dealt with to try to have a working phone. 

The first company (Assurance) lied about the phone I would be recieving.  I found out and cancelled service the same day.  I spent 45 minutes talking to their company, including a supervisor who assured me everything was cancelled and I could go with another company.  6 weeks later a tiny plastic flip phone came in the mail anyway.

When I found out I could choose a new company, I looked for a company that had quality phones (that wouldn't break after 1 month).  A few of those promised me all kinds of things.  I looked them up to confirm.  Most of them were lying.  One of the clues was that they refused to give me any contact information to be able to find them after I checked out the company and what they were promising.

Then I saw the Life booth.  The gentleman had laminated copies outlining the phone information and contracts. He also was willing to give me his email info so I could find out where he was set up at after I researched it.

I have commented about this other places and received responses from people who said the junk phone is just sitting in a drawer somewhere now out of service.  Meanwhile the company is still collecting $$ for providing them service.  That is a RIPOFF.

I created this report primarily to HELP other people who are low income and NEED a reliable phone so that wouldn't have to go through what I did. 

Your gonna complain and file a ripoff report over a FREE phone and FREE service? Ive heard it all now.