{"id":28,"date":"2012-05-30T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zofxare.com\/zofxare\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/prepaid-cell-phones\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T02:06:00","slug":"prepaid-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zofxare.com\/zofxare\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/prepaid-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepaid Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first cell phone when I was in college. Having a cell phone was a good idea considering I had an hour drive each way and a slightly unreliable car. My first cell phone was a big, clunky Motorola flip phone with service through Frontier Cellular. It was also analog instead of digital like today&#8217;s cell phones. Frontier Cellular was bought out a few times and eventually became Verizon Wireless. Over the years, I&#8217;ve upgraded my cell phone a few times. My current phone, Samsung Stratosphere, is my first smartphone. I really don&#8217;t use it for much other than checking email and occasional Google searching. I only use about 1GB of my 4GB monthly data plan, so I should probably try to use it more often. I just prefer a larger screen, so I use my laptop for web activities.<br \/>\nThese days, there are a ton of options to consider when you are signing up for cell phone service. There are a lot of different carriers with varying plans, including prepaid plans. Each carrier has it&#8217;s own line of cell phones too. Even prepaid plans offer only certain phones. <a href=\"http:\/\/prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T-Mobile prepaid cell phones<\/a> can be an entirely different selection than the prepaid phones offered by Tracfone.<br \/>\nPrepaid phones are actually a pretty good idea if you don&#8217;t use your cell phone much. Prepaid phones are even available as smartphones. Data usage just comes out of your minutes. <br \/>.<br \/>\nPrepaid plans also let you carry unused minutes over from month to month. My mother has a Tracfone that she uses to carry in the car with her. About four times a year she buys a 60 minute, 90 day card for $20.00 and adds it to her phone, so that it remains active. She has a ton of minutes from being lightly used and carried over from month to month for years. Her total cell phone bill for one year is about $80.00. Most people have a monthly cell phone bill that costs way more than that, whether they use it or not. <br \/>\nIf you have a cell phone that isn&#8217;t used much every month, a prepaid cell phone plan might be worth looking into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first cell phone when I was in college. Having a cell phone was a good idea considering I had an hour drive each way and a slightly unreliable car. 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