Hobby phone

malonely's Avatar
Okay, stupid question here. If you buy a hobby phone, one of those no contract phones you can get at Target or Walmart or a hundred other places, and that phone is an AT&T phone can you buy time from other no contract carriers to get service?

I think that is the whole idea of these phones but I would like to make sure. I have an AT&T phone but the way you can buy time for them seems to be so restrictive that I usually end up buying a chunk of time for one call since I don't hobby that often. I think I have used other carriers that have a more generous time distribution.