I am finally running out of minutes on my "new" pre-pay cellphone, and decided to run the numbers. I wish I had kept better documentation of my usage, but from the looks of things, I am averaging about 250 minutes a month.
This is shocking to me because I thought I would average more like 100 minutes a month. With Tracfone's rates, that's somewhere between $23 to $25 a month for a phone bill.... That's also shocking to me because I was thinking more along the lines of $10 a month.
Well, I guess I can't complain. I mean, it's still pretty cheap for a cellphone.
But I would really like to get my cellphone bill even lower. So, what to do? Anybody have any suggestions?
I'm looking over Tracfone's promotions again, and while I can buy bulk minutes at a lower overall rate (about $0.09 a minute), I wonder if there isn't a better way out there? Short of talking less of course.
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i have $300 of free calls with my $49 a month cap plan, and i usually use about $200-$250 worth of it, which is about 380 minutes
what can i say? I like to talk!
the funny thing is, the person i call most is one of my closest friends, but we also work together. you'd think after being with someone for 8 hours a day, three days a week you'd have nothing left to say to each other, but we probably talk atleast once a day if not more, on the phone.
February 24th, 2009 at 01:01 pm 1235480468
There are discount unlimited calling plans in the US as well.... One starts out with unlimited calling for $40USD a month. But I don't use the phone enough to justify that.
Actually, I would use a lot less if it wasn't for my best friend calling once in a while. But when we start talking, the time and the minutes start to fly. Haha. That's why I ended up using more than twice the amount of minutes as anticipated. But I don't mind. Good friends are worth it.