Seems like a nice thought, but the sort of thing that would make them have to reprice their services if it took off as a practice.
Maybe a little like asking to take the remainder of the all-you-can-eat buffet as take out to drop off at the local homeless shelter.
Does Net10 allow a person with an older IPhone 4 use their service? WOuld it need “unlocked” from AT&T?
Best advice I can give you is to go to Walmart and get a StraightTalk phone. That’s the best and most practical cell phone service I know of. Thirty bucks a month for a thousand minutes, or forty-five bucks for unlimited voice, text, and data. I do unlimited, and don’t have to worry any more about minutes, or contracts, or any of that nonsense. It’s on the Verizon network, so the coverage is good.
Minutes turn into hours.
See if a friend has a TracFone and see if you can get service in your house. With it, I buy the minutes and service days as one, but once the service days run out I keep the acct active for $6.45/mo. and my minutes keep rolling over.
I can connect my t-mobile phone to a wireless router and get service through the internet. It is far superior to the service I get in my living room without it.
I’m in the same boat. I have several thousand minutes, probably never use ‘em all, but it’s only $15 a month Net10 plan and a $28 Motorola phone.
Service days cost money, too. Your phone is on the network and able to receive calls/texts, etc.
For future reference:
I have Tracfone, which also owns Net10 (IIRC).
I found that I can add 90 days of service with 60 minutes for $20 and then get a special offer of a year of service as an add-on for about $50. Thus, I am adding on 60 minutes plus 15 months of service for an average of about $6/month.
The above seems to be only available via the Tracfone website. I don’t know whether the Net10 website has a similar offer.
I use my phone very little, so this works out better than a landline. And, I don’t have to hassle with adding more service time or minutes or contracts for 15 months.
I had a radically different concern than yours so had a radically different option that I chose. I am an expatiate living in Canada and USA cell rates for international were killing me.
Solution! Took some wrangling with AT&T but my USA cell number (under contract) is now billed as a gaming device, which effectively deactivates it, and I have s Canadian cell with unlimited CA and USA calling for $30 flat rate add on. USA cell rates are a ripoff by comparison.