Dropped my cell bill down to $34.01!

debbie in seattle

debbie in seattle

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My cell bill was getting crazy ~$75 to $80a month. $25 was for the buy a new cell phone plan. Went in on Friday (only $120 left on the payment plan) and paid it all off and asked the gal what plan they had to now keep me as a customer ( fully intended on walking if they had nothing to offer me). Got offered a pay as you go or pre pay plan for $30 a month. I get unlimited talk and text and 1gb of data per month (I averaged .01gb a month of data) So proud of myself. Hubby didn’t believe me, had to show him.
P.S. what prompted this was hubby bought me a new cell phone for Christmas).
 

I have my TracPhone and it does me fine. I rarely use it except to text or call my husband when he is at work. I wanted to get rid of it, but he said no...because of emergency and all. That, of course, is if I remember to bring it. And charge it. LOL
 
I’m pretty lucky I’m on a $30 a month phone plan for my mobile ..I can call and talk as long as I want, make calls to wherever I want to in Australia and it only costs me the $30 ..
 
Marie5656 said:
I have my TracPhone and it does me fine. I rarely use it except to text or call my husband when he is at work. I wanted to get rid of it, but he said no...because of emergency and all. That, of course, is if I remember to bring it. And charge it. LOL
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Same here...I just keep a Tracfone active for use when we are away from the house, in case we need to call one of the kids, or have a problem on the road. I have no need for texting, tweeting, or playing with some "Ap". It only costs $7 a month...which is about $6 more than it's worth, IMO. We have enough carry over minutes built up to talk for 35 hours.
 
I recently dropped my cell bills....

I switched to RedPocket for $10 / mo for 500 mins talk, 500 texts, and 500Mb of data.
I can add extra mins, texts or data at any time.
RedPocket 'carries' all 4 major carriers.

I also ported my home phone # to my old cell phone. It's on PagePlus pay-as-you-go, which is $10 for 4 months (with very low use).
PagePlus was recently sold to a conglomerate cell-service re-seller. Their customer service probably won't be great, but since it's not my only phone it's not the top priority.

I have WiFi at home, and that reduces my data use - cell data is turned off on the 'home #' phone.

HipG
 
I don't have a plan or a smart phone. My arrangement is to post pay for calls and unless the bill is over $10 it is carried over to the next month. On the third month the amount owing is deducted from my account. Most of the time I pay quarterly. This does not include any internet or the home phone which is with a separate provider.

This is a summary of my account last year covering about 9 months.

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debbie in seattle said:
My cell bill was getting crazy ~$75 to $80a month. $25 was for the buy a new cell phone plan. Went in on Friday (only $120 left on the payment plan) and paid it all off and asked the gal what plan they had to now keep me as a customer ( fully intended on walking if they had nothing to offer me). Got offered a pay as you go or pre pay plan for $30 a month. I get unlimited talk and text and 1gb of data per month (I averaged .01gb a month of data) So proud of myself. Hubby didn’t believe me, had to show him.
P.S. what prompted this was hubby bought me a new cell phone for Christmas).
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Just curious, but who is your provider?
 
I dropped my landline with ATT and moved the number to consumer cellular with unlimited minutes and some data which doesn't matter as I don't text. Cost is 28.00 a month.
 
Debbie, thank you so much for posting this. I've been using AT&T for years, and am paying about $60 a month! I use the cell phone very little, just a few text messages a day at the most, and practically no phone calls. I'm sure I'm overpaying, and will call them to see about switching to your kind of plan.
 
Sunny said:
Debbie, thank you so much for posting this. I've been using AT&T for years, and am paying about $60 a month! I use the cell phone very little, just a few text messages a day at the most, and practically no phone calls. I'm sure I'm overpaying, and will call them to see about switching to your kind of plan.
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Sunny- You’re welcome! So far so good. I will say we just returned from a 2week trip to Maui and I had to keep reminding myself to cool it with the no Wi-Fi when using my phone. No biggie, just need to change my habits. I did get a text telling me I only had so much mgb left on this month’s plan. Well worth it when I consider the money I am saving.
 

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