Prepaid Phone Plans for 2015 - Comments Page 2

Another vote for Republic Wireless's 10 per month plan.

What! Nobody likes Virgin USA? I do!Don't use my phone for much but it suits me just fine.Nothing fancy, just a phone to talk & text with. 25c/min/day for the 1st $2.50 worth then it's 10c/min.Text cost 15c/min. All that for $5.40/month (tax included). Coverage ain't perfect but as long as I don't stray too far into the "boonies", I have no problems what-so-ever!As long as I keep my account positive, unused bucks roll over. I'm happy!!

I have used a $10 flip phone with TracFone for years. I pay $99/yr, which comes with 450 minutes, which are doubled because I bought a double-for-life card with the phone. I always wait until they offer me at least 200 bonus minutes, so I wind up with 1000+ minutes. I NEVER run out of minutes and what I do not use carries over, so I have more minutes that I will ever use. Rarely do I find myself without a signal. So I average 27 cents a day on my plan and talk and text all I care to.

I used Tracfone for years. Pretty good but tech support for phone or billing was horrible. Bad connections and accents made it well, horrible. Found Consumer Cellular. Stateside tech support that is awesome, can bring your own phone (GSM) free activation and a superb rate plan you can change at will and 4G LTE to boot.

I vote for TracFone. I have a Samsung Centura smartphone and like it. I see them on the market for $40, and have triple minutes, text, and data.

I have a phone that serves me well for text and voice. However, I've been considering getting a tablet I can access the internet with as I am out and about or traveling, whether as an ebook reader, or watching video, or email or whatever. Straight talk sells a Data SIM card that would provide connectivity with a prepaid arrangement. Or there other options out there?

Before, I started using AT&T Wireless service, I used Net10. I had a flip-phone and also, purchased a 1 year minute service. The 1 year minute service was $100 a year. Boy, is that much cheaper, than what I pay for now.

Yes, I did get some "dropped" calls, but, no more than what I got with AT&T, in the area that I lived, at the time. I could text, but, I honestly, hate texting. It takes me too long, to text and I get several responses, wondering where I am. It took much longer to text, on a flip-phone, too!!!

I was very pleased, with Net10 and found that I could easily, find out how many minutes I had left and when my 1 year pre-paid was up, all online! I could also, pay for any more minutes I may need, online. Plus, I renewed my 1 year minute service, about 3 times, also, online.

I made the decision, to go to monthly payments, with AT&T, when a good deal was offered. I think, that Net10 is part of Tracfone, now ... But, when I started using Net10's service, it was it's own company and the prices were cheaper, than they are today.

I'm a Verizon Smartphone heavy user of data and text. I've researched all my options and Straight Talk (from Walmart) is who I'm switching to when my current contract expires. They allow you to bring your phone with you and they have contracts with all four major carriers. I'll be bringing my CDMA phone so Straight Talk will connect my phone to Verizon's towers. I'll have 4G LTE coverage but will NOT have roaming like I do now. Verizon has good primary coverage in the areas where I'm a regular user. Monthly cost for our two phones will be about $55 less per month.

I got a msg yesterday from Straight Talk: We now get 5gb of 4g data each month. Straight Talk is still the best deal around for a smart phone. Also for $60 per month Cricket gives you 10gb of data. That's a great deal for heavy data users.

I've used the AT&T Go Phone for about 4 years now. Last year I purchased a Samsung Galaxy 5 and added the Go Phone SIM card. Now I've got a smart phone that costs me $8.30 per month. I put $100 on the phone per year and any remaining money rolls over from the previous years. The cost is 10 cents per minute and 20 cents per text. I do not talk on the phone much. Most of my communications are by Facebook messenger, other messenger apps or email. I have to use WiFi to access the internet because AT&T will not let me access the data portion of the plan with a "smart phone". But I could put the SIM card back in the stupid-slow Pantech phone that came with the plan and wait all day for the internet to load.

My current search now is trying to find an inexpensive data-only SIM card plan that I could occasionally pop in my phone when I am away from WiFi, which is when I'm out in the woods and at that point, I usually don't even have phone service anyway. So what good would data do at that point?

The Boostmobile plan referred to in this article no longer exists for new customers(as of 1 Jul,2014). The new plans are very good but not the same as they have limited 3g/4g data though total data is indeed unlimited.

For 8 years now, I have used PagePlus Cellular, a "reseller" of Verizon's tower network. If your usage is very light, especially if you barely need any data, their "Standard Pay-As-You-Go" service costs just $30 for the ENTIRE YEAR ($10 every four months). The big advantage with this is that you only need to "refill" every 4 months and unused minutes always roll over, as long as you don't forget to refill on time. You can put in the minimum $10 which gets you a rate of 10-cents per talk minute and 5 cents for texts. If your need is not quite that light, refill with higher amounts, which also get better per/minute rates. I go for the highest ($80) which actually gets me 2000 talk minutes (that's 4-cents/min, though texts are still 5-cents) AND lets me go one full year before the next refill without losing the rollover balance.

Data (3G) is available but expensive on their prepaid (10 cents/Meg!) so if you need that, go instead for a monthly plan, either from them, or another company. For PagePlus prepaid, you need a Verizon-compatible phone (any, except for the Verizon prepaid type) that you no longer have registered at another carrier. (Don't close your old account entirely until Page Plus has ported in the phone number for you.) Athough you can setup and pay online, the best refill type ($80) can only be bought at a dealer location. Unfortunately, there are not many dealers (and the website's list seems out-of-date), so there might not be one near you. A lot of the above change however, since I hear that Tracphone bought PagePlus.