Earn cell minutes by watching ads

With the cost of mobile phone calls dropping, Virgin Mobile USA has a plan to let people talk for no money at all.
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[TV James]

too expensive

One 30 second ad for 1 minute of talk time? Should be at least 3 or 4 minutes. How much time is wasted connecting and disconnecting?

What does Virgin (Sprint, right?) round to when connecting and disconnecting cell calls?

[paulsecic]

SCAM

Just that.q

[TV James]

too expensive

One 30 second ad for 1 minute of talk time? Should be at least 3 or 4 minutes. How much time is wasted connecting and disconnecting?

What does Virgin (Sprint, right?) round to when connecting and disconnecting cell calls?

[paulsecic]

SCAM

Just that.q

[amigabill]

No Thanks

Sorry dudes, but I believe my time is more valuable than that. So I'd be expected to watch a 30 second advertizement and then take a quiz on it? How much total of my time is involved here? I just don't believe that 1 minute of talking on the phone is enough to even begin to motivate me to spend this much time with your advertizers.

[amigabill]

No Thanks

Sorry dudes, but I believe my time is more valuable than that. So I'd be expected to watch a 30 second advertizement and then take a quiz on it? How much total of my time is involved here? I just don't believe that 1 minute of talking on the phone is enough to even begin to motivate me to spend this much time with your advertizers.

[Roman12]

Not really worth anyone's time...

Maybe if they raise it to 5 free minutes, then it would be more reasonable... You can't have a meaningful 1 minute long conversation anyway, plus the first 20 seconds is connecting and ringing anyway...
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[Roman12]

Not really worth anyone's time...

Maybe if they raise it to 5 free minutes, then it would be more reasonable... You can't have a meaningful 1 minute long conversation anyway, plus the first 20 seconds is connecting and ringing anyway...
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