PrePaid Cell Phone Plans...

[Werewolf]

... any recommendations?

Not a huge fan of cell phones but I do recognize their usefulness in emergency or on the road car failure situations or I'm gonna be late kind'a stuff.

On the rare occassion I carry my wife's phone it just doesn't get used. Last year I kind'a needed one once and really needed one once. 10 or 12 minutes tops.

I'm not going to add a phone to the wife's plan for $10/month. Just not worth it.

Are there prepaids out there where I could buy the phone and say 100 minutes that won't expire for a year?

I've been to best buy but the sheer volume of choices in phones, plans etc is overwhelming.

What shuuuuuld I DO?

Take yur best shot's and have fun (re: What should I do?) but also please make some prepaid cell phone recommendations too.

[charby]

Cancel your home phone, spend the $10 and join your wife's plan.

[Werewolf]

Cancel your home phone, spend the $10 and join your wife's plan.

Reasonable recommendation but:

I have thought of that but I get a break on the landline because it is part of a bundle. Might save a little but not enough to justify cancelling as I still believe that landlines have some utility.

[go_bang]

With T-mobile's prepaid plans as soon as you spend $100 in minutes for the phone you get 50% more minutes with each future refill and the refills are good for a year.  My wife has had a phone on their prepaod plan for several years now.  We have had no complaints with the service.

[Fjolnirsson]

I've had great service through Net10. Not sure how much it would be for a year, as I do use my phone a bit more than that. But, I like the option of buying minutes online or at any Walmart.

[Harold Tuttle]

i run 2 virgin 9.99 mobile phones

I pay 15 bucks every 45 days each