Who has the cheapest cell phone....

[Green Tea]

For whatever reason, I can not just get rid of my land line. The only people that call me are "Rachel from card services" and famous politicians trying to convince my answering machine to vote for their friends. Really....I don't know why I can't just cancel. Its about $35 a month just for the privilege of Rachel and John McCain calling me, and my long distance is with another company. I make no long distance calls but its about $3.50 a month in taxes.

My idea is to get a cheap cell phone and transfer the number to that. If I get a real call, I can just return it. And I get to keep my number which for whatever reason, I'd like to do.

I have Sprint for cell phones and no where on the website does it say how much a non data, not smart line would be. That is one possibility .

I have brought Ooma home, Magic Jack...I could not port my number to either. So I think its got to be a cell phone service.

 

[scrapquitler]

For whatever reason, I can not just get rid of my land line. The only people that call me are "Rachel from card services" and famous politicians trying to convince my answering machine to vote for their friends. Really....I don't know why I can't just cancel. Its about $35 a month just for the privilege of Rachel and John McCain calling me, and my long distance is with another company. I make no long distance calls but its about $3.50 a month in taxes.

My idea is to get a cheap cell phone and transfer the number to that. If I get a real call, I can just return it. And I get to keep my number which for whatever reason, I'd like to do.

I have Sprint for cell phones and no where on the website does it say how much a non data, not smart line would be. That is one possibility .

I have brought Ooma home, Magic Jack...I could not port my number to either. So I think its got to be a cell phone service.

the extra lines on my Verizon family plan are $9.99 per month for dumb phones(my mom and my DD have LG Octanes or some other phone that has a slide out key board), but there's about $5 of taxes on to pof that. I'm guessing that most of the other cell providers have something similar.

You might actually be better off getting a trackphone, Net 10, or a similar no-contract non-smartphone that you buy a top up card for. Then you would only pay for the actual minutes that you use. I'm not sure if you can port your number to those or not.

 

[mafibisha]

My idea is to get a cheap cell phone and transfer the number to that. If I get a real call, I can just return it. And I get to keep my number which for whatever reason, I'd like to do. I have Sprint for cell phones and no where on the website does it say how much a non data, not smart line would be. That is one possibility .

I have brought Ooma home, Magic Jack...I could not port my number to either. So I think its got to be a cell phone service.

You might actually be better off getting a trackphone, Net 10, or a similar no-contract non-smartphone that you buy a top up card for. Then you would only pay for the actual minutes that you use. I'm not sure if you can port your number to those or not.

I want to do this too! Anyone out there do it successfully, and if so, how??

 

[usnuzuloose]

I love my land line. I have a track phone. I am not happy with them. I took it to Las Vegas and found out that I had to get a new phone number there to use it. And if you go beyond the date of putting minutes on it you have to get a new sim card and then call them and have to get it redone to turn it back on. Not worth my time with them.

 

[hsmamato2]

pageplus cellular is really cheap,and solid- great coverage- easy rates- once you get a phone..... you can get monthly service (I pay 29.95 ) or just a pay as you go card which lasts a year, gives you 2000 talk minutes,and costs 80.00.

 

[tzeitel]

I have the cheapest Tracfone service and toddlers have a fancier phones than I do - but it works for me I have the $35 plan and got the little flip phone (does not even have a camera). The only people that call me are DH and my mom so I do not need anything complicated. I do have unlimited calls and texts.

DH has a Galaxy S3 with all the works (calls, texts, internet) through Tracfone and his plan is $60 I believe.

 

[Rowdymom81]

You'll need to check but I don't think you can port a landline number to a cell.

 

[cruisers5]

My husband and I have tracphones - he purchased them from Shop NBC, got a "somewhat" smart phone, double minutes for lifetime and a bonus 1000 minutes when we bought the phones. We don't use them that often, more or less for emergencies when we're out, or the quick phone call home of "do we need any milk or bread" when we're at the store. We were both able to port over our old cell phone numbers (AT&T) to the tracphones. At the house we have magic jack (my kids live in another country so wanted that for the long distance service), and I was able to port over our home phone number with magic jack. I had asked Time Warner about bundling all our services and they told me they couldn't port over our phone number, so I wouldn't do it, but Magic Jack was able to.

 

[RitaE]

You can port the telephone number to the Free Google Voice service, but you have to temporarily port it to a disposable cell phone number first.

There are numerous tutorials out on the web how to do this. Google "Port Landline to Google Voice" and pick one. I bought a $30 PagePlus phone to do mine off of EBAY and then I sold the phone for $30 when I was done. I see most people using T-mobile when they do it

So my process went like this:

Port Landline # to PagePlus (took about 3 days)
Port PagePlus to GoogleVoice (took one day)

Then I bought an ObiHai device and set it up and home and hooked my home phone handsets into it.


Now I don't pay anything for the home phone service.

Here is a good tutorial

http://www.obihai.com/porttutorial.html

 

[Green Tea]

The Tracfone looks to be an option. BUT, Wal-Mart was out of TracFones and I wanted to get started NOW.

No idea if the local phone company will even let me port the number. I think they HAVE to, but whether they will remains to be seen.

 

[plummer925]

I have ported a land-line to a tracfone. Law says you have to be able to do it now!

 

[Green Tea]

I am in the midst of trying to port the land line to the TracFone. So far the phone company keeps rejecting the request. I would file a complaint with the FCC but I understand the government is closed today........

Ironically, the only people who call the land line are members of congress trying to get me to vote for them or their friends.

 

[S. C.]

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[JeffreyY]

We have vonage for our landline it is 9.99 a month + taxes. I think that is less then any cell phone and you can keep your phone #. And I can send calls to my cell phone if I want to or if my Internet goes out the calls go to my cell.

 

[abolanwoski]

The Tracfone looks to be an option. BUT, Wal-Mart was out of TracFones and I wanted to get started NOW.

No idea if the local phone company will even let me port the number. I think they HAVE to, but whether they will remains to be seen.

If you want a Tracfone, Amazon has great deals on dumb phone with triple minutes for life (each card is tripled when you add it to the phone so 400 mins becomes 1200 mins with one year expiration of points). You can also buy top off cards on ebay for pretty cheap and they work. We got a phone on amazon, 400 min card on ebay, found a code online for free 250 mins and ended up spending less than 120.00 for 1450 minutes good for a year and a new phone. So less than 10 per month. Now that's cheap!