Best no contract cell phone?
Let me start by saying I hate cell phones. They are a necessary evil. Wife has an iPhone which we share since we are together almost all the time. At most once or twice a month we need an additiona...
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I used a Tracfone because it had the lowest cost, under $7 a month, for maintaining service. $20 for another 60 minutes and 90 days service. You can pay slightly more to cover a year at a time. Minutes don't expire, I've accumulated 3300 minutes over about 10 years.
There are other plans with lower per-minute costs, if what you want are low cost minutes rather than lowest cost of keeping the connection alive.
You do have to keep the phone on (if it disappears from the network for too long, service is discontinued) and you do have to keep up to date on buying time for it (another way to lose the number and the minutes).
I've had no hassle transferring the account forward to new instruments (I'm on the third one), but had to argue with a customer service guy a bit when he transferred forward fewer minutes than what my old phone showed. Tracfone is set up so that your phone is the final authority on accounting, sometimes their records of what you've used, forwarded from the carriers, get out of synch. Not an issue so long as you keep the same phone, keep the account alive.
There are other plans with lower per-minute costs, if what you want are low cost minutes rather than lowest cost of keeping the connection alive.
You do have to keep the phone on (if it disappears from the network for too long, service is discontinued) and you do have to keep up to date on buying time for it (another way to lose the number and the minutes).
I've had no hassle transferring the account forward to new instruments (I'm on the third one), but had to argue with a customer service guy a bit when he transferred forward fewer minutes than what my old phone showed. Tracfone is set up so that your phone is the final authority on accounting, sometimes their records of what you've used, forwarded from the carriers, get out of synch. Not an issue so long as you keep the same phone, keep the account alive.
