Originally Posted By: bmwtechguy
For limited use, CC may be a good deal for some folks,esp if coming from postpaid Verizon or At&t. No sense paying for something you are not using that's really overpriced. But for someone who actually uses their phone a moderate amount, I would consider H2O,or any number of others like Airvoice who have a paygo for limited use. If you put your $10 month on autopay, your balance just keeps rolling over indefinitely. In comparison, a $10/mo plan on CC just buys you an expensive flat rate per minute for calls and does not include even the first minute of calling. Cricket has been great for us with 5 phones with unlmtd call, text and 4gb data each phone for a total of $100/mo. All the above use At&t. For Verizon towers, page plus, total wireless, boom.us and expomobile have been really good and cheap to use. I have my father in law on puppy wireless (verizon flip phone) and he talks wide open for $80/year. He was paying about $50/mo for same thing from verizon directly!
Here's the nuts and bolts of what I'm looking at:
Our current AT&T plan: Unlimited Talk/Text with Mobil Share Value 300MB with rollover data shared with my wife. With my Corporate discount we're paying $79.64 per month.
Over the last six months we've averaged 759 Minutes Talk per month with a max of 1164 minutes.
Over the last six months we've averaged 2163 Texts per month with max of 2334.
Over the last six months we've never exceeded our 300MB data limit.
With Consumer Cellular including Taxes/Fees/Surcharges we're looking at approximately $45 per month:
- Talk 1,500 Minutes per month
- Text Unlimited
- 500MB Data
Notes:
- Consumer Cellular tells me the Taxes Fees and Surcharges are charged per bill, roughly $5.00 . On my AT&T bill, I'm charged Taxes Fees and Surcharges per line of service, roughly $5.00 per line.
- As a matter of fact, Consumer Cellular tells me they utilize the AT&T and T-Mobil networks.