[Melas]

Steer clear. Straight Talk makes agreements with major carriers for bandwidth. Back in May, Verizon declined to renew its agreement, leaving many Straight Talk users with phones, but no service. Currently, AT&T, and T-Mobile are still leasing to to ST, but there is no guarantee for the ST user, that those agreements will last. ST also cuts you off after just two gigs of data, whereas most unlimited (cough) plans don't throttle you back until 5 gigs or more.

[steve86]

Straight Talk is another Tracfone company along with Net10. Tens of millions of people use these, including most of the Obamaphone users. The lease agreements will get “straightened” out, they always do. I’ve averaged about $9.50/month with Tracfone and Net 10 over the past several years and no service territory problems. I see that Straighttalk offers Android phones now. The data limits would not be an issue for non smartphone customers like me.