I use Cricket, and am very satisfiedI
Tracfone: $9 a month.
Check out straight talk that is sold at Walmart. It’s unlimited minutes and data. (all though they do throttle back the speed if you use too much I think)
We’ve had good luck with it... and it’s affordable.
How is it to be used ?
If it is hi ... yeah ... milk and eggs ? ... K .... I love you.
Then a pay as you go will last two months on a 20 buck card (we use trackphone)
Outside of that ... they're all about 50 bucks a month
- Consumer Cellular (Consumer Reports rated this well for cost and coverage)
- T-Mobile (Another less expensive option CR thought was okay)
Further down the list:
- StraightTalk (Walmart)
- Sprint (which we use-grandfathered on unlimited data)
Patriot Mobile. They don’t donate to liberals. They donate to conservative candidates or to the charity if your choice.
Had Sprint. Had Verizon. Both about 100/ month.
Then used my old Sprint phone for a Boost Mobile monthly pre-pay...$31/month...using Sprint network. 2 gig....unlimited talk/ text. And if i go over date limit, no overage charges.....just a reduction in speed, until the next cycle. Very happy with the people who work the store, too. No hard sell. Knowledgeable and honest. Save $70/month.
I understand they now have an unlimited data plan for $30/ month. Looking into it.
I use Verizon for $35, the one adavantage for verizon is signal strength. I can actually use it indoors.
If your son lives in a major metro area, nearly any service provider should do just fine. Just read the fine print of any agreement. If he lives outside of a metro area, then his options could be limited. I have AT&T only because I am a LOOONG time customer AND I received a new S7 with a new two-year contract. (This was an online-only deal for existing customers for $199.99 w/tax and applicable fees.)
AT&T is not bad. Not stellar, but not bad. I was, however, hissed off that the only way I found out about the online deal was to look at their website while logged into my account. Neither phone reps nor in-store reps made mention of the deal. They all attempted to foist their AT&T NEXT program on me. Total BS that is.
Just do your due dilligence before signing on the dotted line, so to speak.
I know google is like a four letter word around these parts but I use google fi
http://fi.google.com/
Can’t be beat in terms of cost and coverage (in my area) assuming he needs a data plan. the biggest downside is...well... its google :)
You get credits back if you don’t use your full gig and if you go over a gig, you pay by the megabyte (a penny each?) instead of big chunks/bands of data.
I have ATT gophone and one metro PCS. not sure where you’re at but because FR is full of peeps who hate the gubmint’ spying, there’s no registration, just make up a name. And my $65 plan with ATT gophone if I dont use the 5 GB per month, it rolls over. I have around 22 GB of data collected so far.
Husband has Verizon, with data & text - $120/mo
I have Boost mobile with data & text - $45/mo
There is no difference in coverage and he drops more calls than I do.
I used to have Virgin Mobile at same price, but Boost bought out Virgin Mobile, so I figured go ahead & switch.
Before all this had AT & T for 2 phones/$250. mo
Page Plus. Have used them for yeas and never a problem. The 29 dollar plan works for me.
Check Tracfone.
They are pre-pay and the unused minutes roll over. Monthly service fee is about $6/month depending on the plan you select.
QVC and HSN have occasional deals on Tracfone smartphones (LG or Motorola or Samjunk) with triple talk-text-data minutes for the life of the phone and one year of service.
I use Boost... have been for around 5 years now. I use a Samsung Galaxy S5. $40/month for unlimited everything. Never ran into any issues at all.
One way to save money is to get a group of friends and family on one plan. I put my mother on my plan with my 4 family members. We have Verizon, sharing 10 gigs of very high speed data among 5 people. Bring your own phone and the cost is $15/line plus $64 for the data. Thats less than $35/line. However that is the Everything plan which I am grandfathered in. The new plan costs $20 per line and $70 for 8 gigs of data and $90 for 16 gigs.
AT&T Go Phones work on H2O Wireless, and don’t need to be unlocked. Just change the AT&T sim for an H2O sim. H2O users AT&T cell towers. Pay as You Go Minute cards start at $10 (10 cents minute talk, 10 cents text and 10 cents a mega byte data) good for 90 days.
The also have various unlimited plans. We use H2O and really like it.
https://www.h2owirelessnow.com/mainControl.php?page=index
Verizon is expensive but i pay for the quality of their coverage and signal strength. Rarely have a coverage issue with them wherever i am. They just redid their data plans and I get a nice 16G package thats enough for the whole family at $90/month.
Unlimited text. Unlimited phone. Unlimited internet. The only limit is that if I go over so many minutes of internet, then my communication is downgraded from 4G to 3G. I get no surprises.
I pay no tax ... or if I do ... it's incorporated into my $30/month fee.