Walmart Family Cell Plans

[bzkds]

I just switched our home phone to Callcentric from Verizon. Our bill went from $49/month to $13/month. And I pulled my son off of Verizon Wireless and put him on Ting.. they use the Sprint network, but we have been VERY happy so far. They only charge in increments by what you actually use (mins/txt/data) and if you use less the next month, they only charge you for the lower amount. I like it because I can also shut off the texting (or whatever) if he gets to a limit I determine (because I don't want his bill to go higher).

Another option is to use Google Voice. I don't think you can port a landline number yet, but you can get a free number though them or port a cell number to them.

Here is an article that explains a lot, which helped me decide what to do to lower our costs - we were at $300+ a month for 6 cell phones and our home line!

http://mreverydaydollar.com/a-review-of-ting-disrupting-the-mobile-phone-market/

 

[TeamBlack]

Does anyone know of a basic cell phone, talk only, no data, no texting nothing extra. This is for an emergency home phone.

I have T-Mobile pre-paid plan. On pre-paid plans, they're not allowed to charge you all of those BS "line fee's and excise taxes" that they are allowed to charge people on a phone plan.
It's a straight 1000 minutes or for $100.00. That's 10 cents a minutes or 10 cents a text.
You have a year to use the minutes.

So basically you can have an emergency phone for $100.00 a year and you get 1000 minutes to use if you want to use it.