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As usual, the devil is in the details. For instance, with some prepaid wireless plans, your minutes are only good for a limited time, usually 30 to 90 days. If you don't use them before they expire, they are simply subtracted from your account anyway.
Nosal hits one of the saving graces of the expiring minutes practice. If you add more money to your account, all of your minutes expire at the new date, not your old one. So if you have 500 minutes that expire in two days, you can top up and extend the expiration to a new date. Tynan then finds the further inefficiency in this: what if you just want the phone for emergency purposes? Wouldnât it make sense to have a special program for these users?