Cell plan for low minutes use ?

[d4g4m]

I have the T-Mobile $3.00 a month for 30 minutes, plus .10 each additional minute plan. It's on a Samsung T139 flip phone. Paid $22 with sim card at Walmart. No problems, works fine. Used infrequently and I don't do texting so don't care that it's flip phone.

[goofy328]

The way I use Google Voice is merely as a way to obtain better sound quality than I can get through the regular phone network. I have GoPhone $45 for 4 GB 4G unlimited 2G. I forward my incoming calls to my Google Voice number. I use Hangouts Dailer to answer those calls on my Android. Google Voice calls take up 45 MB of data per hour.

VoIP is not cheap. But I can call anywhere in the world via Google Voice as long as I have access to Wi-Fi. In the states, I can make calls over Wi-Fi where AT&T reception is poor or non existent. For international calling, one does need to add money into their Google account. For example, Bahamas is 22 cents a minute. The only other way to call there on AT&T is post paid, which is something I refuse to do.

I've also used Google Voice over 2G. Still sounds great. As long as you have access to data, it will work.

I don't use VoIP to save money. I use it because AT&T and Verizon refuse to give us Wi-Fi calling on prepaid accounts and I hate Sprint and their MVNO.

[bpollen]

Originally Posted by jiminnm

I use a Tracfone for $7-8/month, which gets 180 minutes, 180 MB data and 180 texts every 3 months. It's an LG smart phone (which I bought cheap). It is wifi compatible which use doesn't affect the minutes purchased.

I have an LG smart phone with wi-fi. I turned off the wi-fit because I found that it DID use my minutes, even though I thought it wasn't supposed to.

[bpollen]

TracFone is pretty cheap. I don't use the cell phone much at all. I have a phone that Tracfone has designated as "triple minutes." There are also "double minutes" phones. This means that when you buy minutes and add them to your phone, your phone will triple the number of minutes, or double them, whatever your phone is designated as.

I don't do monthly plans. I buy airtime either online or via a card in a store, and I buy one for 365 days and a certain # of minutes. I buy the 365 days, 400 minutes airtime choice, which costs $99. BUT my phone TRIPLES the 400 minutes, so 1200 minutes gets added to my phone.

I now own those minutes. They won't go away, whether I use them or not. And I paid a flat $99 + tax for one year. Period. There are no limitations, except the number of minutes I have.

TracFone has a program where you can pay $50 to EXTEND you account active date by one year, without adding minutes. I had so many minutes rolled over from prior years, that I paid the $50 for the last two years, so I could use my rolled over minutes.

So I've paid about $4.25/month for cell phone use the last two years.

Before then, I paid $99/year ($8.25/month) for 1200 minutes/one year.

There is a good site online that compares the different phones available for Tracfone. http://tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com...e-reviews.html

I usually buy my minutes/extend my account deadline online at Tracfone's site. It's very easy and immediate. The minutes are downloaded to my phone almost immediately.