New phone plane

[K9karen]

I have a family plan with Verizon and John and I have Droids. Yeah, I know, I'm a fool. I pay way too much but I cut our monthly minutes recently. Sorry, this old broad does a lot of texting, especially if I can't reach someone by phone and I think it's important. I have oodles of free apps. I love my Sudoku app. I use it everyday or when I'm waiting for an appointment. I've been sucked up. I know. I need to set my priorities. BTW the sweet guy at the Verizon store gave me coupons so our phones where a total of $50. Can't beat that. I lucked out. I need unlimited long distance. I have lots of PT friends and others in almost every city.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I didn't have a cell phone either but I decided that for emergencies that I should have some kind of a cell phone. I ended up ordering a prepaid tracphone from HSN. I've had it for several weeks now and I only made a brief call to my mom to test it out. It came with 1200 minutes after I activated it and they're good until sometime in Aug. of 2012. I bet I won't even use up all of my minutes by then. Each time I need to buy minutes I'll also get triple the minutes for life. Too bad prepaid minutes have an expiration date. When I make any long distance calls on my land line, I use a prepaid card and these minutes never expire and I can always recharge the card again.

[pomtzu]

I didn't have a cell phone either but I decided that for emergencies that I should have some kind of a cell phone. I ended up ordering a prepaid tracphone from HSN. I've had it for several weeks now and I only made a brief call to my mom to test it out. It came with 1200 minutes after I activated it and they're good until sometime in Aug. of 2012. I bet I won't even use up all of my minutes by then. Each time I need to buy minutes I'll also get triple the minutes for life. Too bad prepaid minutes have an expiration date. When I make any long distance calls on my land line, I use a prepaid card and these minutes never expire and I can always recharge the card again.

Your minutes shouldn't expire. I had Tracfone for years before I went on my son's Verizon plan (for only $10 per month ). With TF I had a double minutes for the life of the phone, and if you go on line, you'll see that they have automatic plans, where you don't have to remember to buy more minutes. They bill you per month and automatically add one month to the expire date and add the minutes - then the same the following month - and on and on. What minutes you don't use are carried over. I was on the basic plan - 50 minutes for 30 days for $10. So with the double minutes I got 100. They actually screwed up tho - one month they extended the date but didn't add the minutes. I called them and they over-corrected the problem. After that I was getting double double minutes - 200 of them every month. When I got rid of TF and went on my son's plan, I had over 2300 minutes that I had accumulated. Nope - I don't use my cell much either......

[Hellow]

I use something similar to a Tracfone - Straight Talk, which is actually a more advanced service of Tracfone. It works like a real cell phone plan, but it's prepaid. No contract or anything like that. I love it, $45 a month for unlimited talk, text, and data. The biggest drawback is that you're restricted to the phones that they will allow you to use, but they have smartphones like my Nokia E71.