The Best $16.66 per Month Cell Phone
So I know what you are thinking. You can not get a cell phone for less than $40 a month plus taxes and you have to sign a one year or two year contract. That is no longer true. You can get a phone for as little as 6.66 per month–here is an article on the Best Emergency Phone. Which could also be called the best $6.66 per month cell phone.
Net10 Samsung R451c Qwerty Keyboard
What makes the Best $16.66 per month Phone?
In my Opinion the most important points would be who has
- The most minutes to use for $16.66 per month.
- No Contract to sign.
- No Credit Check Required.
- Usable every day
- Available Nationally
With that in mind I have evaluated T-Mobile Prepaid, Tracfone, Net10, Go phone and Verizon Prepaid. All of these companies have national or nearly national plans.
The Options.
T-Mobile, Go Phone, Verizon, all have pretty much the same options. If you purchase a $100 card you can have access for a year. They have $1 per day plans that give unlimited calling to their own network and after you pay your $1 you get 10 cent minutes. They also have 25 cents per minute plans with no daily charge (Way too expensive). T-Mobile has a straight 10 cents a minute plan as long as you put in $100 first. There are better options
$16.66 per Month is $200 per Year
The $200 per year phone plan from Tracfone.com gives you 3,000 minutes and One year of service for $16.66 per month if you pay {for a year|$200} {to start the plan|in advance}.
6.6 cents per minute. No limits on your calling, no long distance charges, no roaming charges and yet your phone will roam onto several cell networks.
If you use all 3,000 minutes before your year is up you can purchase more for the same price (you will have to spend $200 to get the 6.6 cent rate.) If you do not use all of your minutes they Roll Over as long as you keep your service active.
You are in control of your minutes. You buy them and use them as fast or as slow as you want. You will always know how many minutes you have left because it shows right on the screen of your phone.
If you average 250 minutes a month your minutes will last for 12 months. You can use 400 on month and 100 the next.
As recently as 2005 you would pay at least 20 cents a minute for prepaid minutes in the US.
Tracfone has the best $16.66 per month Plan
You can only purchase the $200 one year 3,000 Tracfone plan online at Tracfone.com. To get 3,000 minutes you have to have DMFL on your phone before your add the $200 card.
Get $3 off on any Tracfone phone of $19.99 or more with coupon code 23444
Motorola W385 and Samsung R451c
Runner up in the $16.66 per Month Phone Contest
In my opinion runner up goes to Net10.com. You can purchase phone cards for $30 anytime from Net10 that give you ten cent minutes. No $1 per day monthly fee just add a $30 phone card and you get 10 cent minutes.
Net10 up will give you 166 minute per month compared to Tracfone’s 250 minutes per month for $16.66.
You will only have to spend $30 for two months with Net10 and you will have to invest $200 to get the Tracfone deal. If you were getting a Contract phone the $200 would be about 3 or 4 months service charge.
Summary
The Best $16.66 250 minutes per month deal is only available at the Tracfone Website. Buy the $200 1500 minute refill with DMFL already installed on your phone and get 3000 minutes.
Remember with Tracfone you get more minutes per dollar if you buy bigger cards. The $20 Card gets you 16.6 cent minutes $30 = 12.5 cent minutes $40 = 10 cent minutes $80 = 8.8 cent minutes $200 = 6.6 cent minutes. These are all figured as if you have DMFL.
With Net10 cards $30 = 10 cent minutes $45 = 10 cent minutes $60 = 10 cent minutes $100 = 10 cent minutes $400 = 8 cent minutes.
Rick the Prepaid Guy
Net10 and Tracfone Samsung R451c Qwerty Keyboard
March 17th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
This is what I do for $ 0.05 a minute. It requires a bit more work/thinking than the average cell plan but for five cents a minute with no contract it is worth it; for me at least. So this is how it works: net10 has deals every once in a while for there LG300 refurbished phone where they give you a 300 minute/60 day service card with the phone. Note, that whenever you activate/upgrade a net10 phone they also give you 300min and 60 days of service. Thus if you buy a phone while this deal is on, you get 600 min for 120 days. ($0.05/min). So what I did when i first conceived this was I bought 2 phones. Then a few months later I bought another one (not because I needed it, but because someday in the future when the minutes ran out, I wanted to make sure I got the .05/min. deal. The downside to this is that you have to “upgrade” your phone.(switch your service to one of the other phones you bought) This requires you to re-enter in your contacts manually. So that’s about it. I also use a google voice number and give that # out to people which routes the calls to my net10 phone. So, for .05/min you have to catch net10 when they have deals that include a minute/service card with the phone. So when those deals do open up, I stock up on phones.
March 20th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Excellent post!
For me, prepaid rules. I did a bit of research and discovered NET10 was the best for my purposes. I don’t use a lot of minutes — maybe 200 or so a month — and I’m not a mad texter or websurfer either, but 10¢ a minute for calls and 3¢ for texts is crazy good. And no fees per day or other bs.
I got a very nice Samsung phone with a slide-out qwerty keyboard and no one knows it’s prepaid. Costs me a big $30 a month for all my stuff.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:06 am
Aha!! I hear what you say about Net10 which I’m on, but what about the 300 free minutes you get when you buy the phone? That little bonus more than compensates for the cost of buying the phone.
April 4th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
As a 10 year tracfone user. I consider your statements “will only cost 6.6 cents each plus your per month price is below $17 monthly.” on the $200 card a bit miss leading. Should that really be an “or” at 6.6 cents a minute and $17amonth it’s a $400 card. Sorry it just bugged me. Keep up the good work, for low minute users tracfone is indeed the best option.
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July 23rd, 2010 at 5:25 pm
I did explain you had to spend the money to get the rate, I was breaking it down so people can compare it to the Verizon or AT&T rates of $45 to $100 per month.
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:29 pm
I totally agree. The 300 minutes makes Net10 phones almost free or less than free
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