Good cheap cell phone, pay as you go, ect?

Will52100

Will52100

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Me and Verizon have split, long story short they really PO'd me.

I mainly use a cell phone to call from the airport to come get me as I work overseas, and to keep in my truck, "come get me I'm broke down" or emergency. I personally detest cell phones, but they are handy.

While I was working in Singapore you could buy a decent cell phone and then buy a sim card with minuets on it, and the card was good for at least a year if you didn't use it up. That would be ideal for me stateside. Is there such an animal here?

Sorry, but looks like I'm behind the curve on cell phone tech.

Thanks
 
There are lots of pre-paid cell phones and cards you can purchase for minutes. Google is your friend.
 
I got tracphone for my daughter and think i will be moving to it myself. $100 a month a couple of cell phones when we use less than 100 minutes is to much.
 
I have a pay as you go with Virgin Mobile and have liked it fine. However, when it was time to get a new phone for the Wife AT&T was a better deal. It is nice if you can put $100 on it and have service for a year (so long as you don't use all your minutes). Cheap and does what I need them to do! We pay, in a year, what my bud in ny was paying in a month.
 
Thanks, I've looked into tracphone, haven't rulled them out yet but I'm liking how the Virgin Mobile sounds. Best part is they have them at Radio shack, can see if they have any etchant while I'm there and check them out too.
Thanks
 
I'm not sure about the States but here in Canadanavia we have a few Pay-as-you-go providers. Rogers, Bell Mobility, Kel-com. Minimum payments start at $10/month. I'm on the $20/month plan because it has better long distance rates. Basically, you pay for the time you use and your balance carries over to the next month as long as you make the minimum payment for the plan you chose. If you miss the minimum top up payment you lose the balance. What's nice is that even if you are no longer paying, you are still eligible to start up at anytime.... AND... 911 calls are free no matter how long the phone plan has not been in use. (though I think most are doing that, now). My phone was $60.
 
I've been carrying a tracfone for years -- $120 for a year of coverage with roughly 15 hours of talk time, good signal, and if you run low on minutes, the refills extend your expiration date by 3 months at a time.
 
One of the best quality phones I've owned was a tracfone, tough, long battery life, and still works after years of use.

Sometimes they offer a "double minutes" for the life of the phone. Buy 200 minutes, and they put 400 on the phone. With that deal, those minutes expire after 90 days.
Spend more up front, like mentioned, and you'll have it for a year.
 
Another you might want to look in to is Boost mobile. Used them quite a while ago and it was decent.
 
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