As a matter of fact, our cell-plan allows for 500 minutes of cellphone use, and we get nights and weekend free, and we still have never even approached 150 minutes for ALL usage during one month. My portion of the usage has always been between 0 and 20 minutes ... my wife has more friends than I do. People in my office know not to call my cellphone after work hours, but to call my landline, which has an answering machine. When I come home from work, my cellphone goes on the charger with the ringer turned off, and doesn't get looked at again until the next morning when I turn it back on and put it in my pocket.
It's an emergency phone only.
IF I were to get a cellphone, and it’s something I find myself thing about more and more, I’d want the simplest phone out there. Ideally the phone service would cost nothing until I made a call. And then it would be $5.00 per minute. Can’t find anything like that.
Then there’s the fact that you can never turn the phone off completely. You are always being tracked by the cell phone towers. How else can they find you if you get a call?