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Absolute cheapest cell phone service in US?

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jeffmin

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Hey,

My contract with Verizon is finally about to expire. I haven't actually used the phone for almost a year now since I primarily use my work-provided phone.

Does anyone know if there are really cheap ass providers (maybe even pre-paid?) that will let me roll over my phone number? If I can keep my phone number for some nominal fee like $5 a month or something, that would be sweet.

Thanks
 
i know that sprint has something like that.

i don't know if you have to subscribe for a certain amount of time before you go on that plan, though.

they called it a vacation plan, but you had to be on it more than a month. not exactly most people's vacation.
 
I second using it with VoIP. You can even setup your service with most providers to ring your cell phone at the same time your VoIP phone rings or after a certain number of rings on the VoIP phone. I do this with my Vonage service.
 
For me price wise:
MetroPCS>Tmobile>Cingular>Pre-paid>Nextel>Sprint>Verizon..............

I use Cingular
 
I did roughly the same thing. Was with cingular but my company provides blackberry so I ported my cingular number to Virgin mobile. I setup the auto topup which is 15.00 every 90 days. Plus what ever of that I do not use carries over. Also there is no per day access charge. 0.25 for the first 10 minutes a day then 0.10 for anything past the first 10 minutes. lets me keep my number for 60.00 a year plus still have the phone for a backup.
 
Alltel prepaid plan for 15 cents a minute. Use it for one call each month and it only costs you 15 cents. You do have to pay a one time initial fee of 35 bucks to activate it and put 20 bucks worth of minutes on it but after that you are golden. You will get charged $4 a month if you dont use the phone for at least one minute each month.
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Virgin Mobile, like 2canSAM said.
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I always hated Virgin Mobile. I thought the whole point of a cellphone was booty calls.
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He just wants to squat on the number for cheap. Your point is irrelevant.

Edit: am I too sleepy to realize that you just posted a weak joke?
 
i thought cell numbers were different and that you couldn't port a cell number to a landline and vice versa

i think voip would be considered the same as POTS for porting purposes
 
you can set up a leave on a cell phone for at least 3 months. i did it with Verizon before leaving for japan. it costs 15 bucks, one-time fee. then i dont pay anything per month.

see how long you can do it for...
 
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