Cheapest Cell Phone Plans
US Cellular, while not very well advertised, has a great promotional plan on their National coverage area. They have exceptional signal even in rural areas. The promotional plan is the National 1000. For a single line you get 1000 anytime minutes, unlimited incoming calls, texts and picture messages. You also get unlimited Nights and Weekends with your nights starting at seven at night and ending at seven in the morning, as well as unlimited Mobile to Mobile.
US Cellular also has amazing customer service while still being one of the most cheapest cell phone plans around. They start with a thirty day guarantee. Within thirty days a customer can change their mind about which phone they chose, or completely cancel service for any reason. Activation fees waved and the customer will only be billed for the minutes used within that thirty days. Secondly, account holders are allowed up to four FREE battery swaps a month. FOR FREE! If your battery dies and you are stuck without a charger, no problem! Just come into a US Cellular store and they will give you a battery in exchange for your old one! US Cellular backs up your contacts FOR FREE. No hidden fees for downloading the application like with Verizon.
You can also have your phone auto backup while you are asleep so you never have to worry about manually backing up your contacts. If your phone is lost, all your contacts will be loaded to your new phone or to your computer. It’s easy. US Cellular doesn’t just stop there, they offer free overage protection. When you hit 75% of your allotted minutes US Cellular sends you a text message letting you know. It also sends you a text when you hit 100%. Remember all incoming texts are free so you don’t even have to worry about being charged for the text they send you. If you opt to get a text plan but decide not to get the unlimited text plan, you can get free overage protection for your texts as well.
Last but definitely not least US Cellular will never completely lock you in to a plan. You can change your price plan or features whenever you want and without extending your contract. You can go to a more expensive plan or to a cheaper one and they will do it without trying to talk you out of it and without you being stuck with the company for another two years.
To review, US Cellular offers great reception for a reasonable price but it’s the extras that really give you a better value over the competitors. A new battery for a phone averages fifty dollars, with US Cellular they flat out give you a battery if you need it. Other companies tack on additional fees and extend your contract for things that should just be customer service issues. In short, if you don’t have US Cellular, you better be asking yourself why.
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T-Mobile Cell Phone Family Plans
Until some time ago calling our sons and daughter wasn’t really cheap. A short cellphone call would cost over one dollar easily. But since we started using the T-Mobile cell phone family plans it isn’t a problem anymore. Now we can talk without thinking about costs. Talking now is as cheap as free!
We benefit from unlimited Night & Weekend Minutes, so when my son goes out with his friend I can call him to know if he arrived well and when hes coming home. The change in the phone bill is notable. Nearly half the expenses than before. I recommend this plan to every family who is interested in saving money in calls. But not only do I spend less money but also does my son and daughter. When they spoke hours on the phone with their friends it was a problem for us who paid the bills. But the family plan is not only for the family but also they can talk to their friends every night for free after 9pm.
Also T-Mobile offers a Nationwide Digital Roaming when we call another T-Mobile phone in the whole USA. The good thing of this is that you don’t have to pay expensive roaming costs for the call. These things made an important difference. But the biggest change was with the free Nationwide Long Distance for life calls that come included in the family plan. My wife has to travel around the country a lot because of her job and when the kids miss her they want to talk to her. This plan makes it possible to talk for a low price from your home to wherever the other family phone is in a 2000 miles radius. But now. what if my son was also away in some other place and we wanted to talk all together? T-Mobile offers a three-way-call. What does this mean? Well this means that three phones can talk together. So my wife, my son and I can share at the same time what were doing and how much we miss each other. Why miss this opportunity to do all this things for a low price? I really must say, this plan is great.
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Sprint Cell Phone Family Plans
I’m really happy with Sprint’s family plans. I had AT&T for years and finally, after my iPhone was unable to get 3G service for the hundredth time, I switched the entire family over to Sprint. I was sad to lose my iPhone (they’re such cool cell phones!), but happy to get a phone that actually worked. We all kept our numbers and the kids were happy to get new phones.
One thing that I really like about Sprint is that they have more than one family plan! It’s nice to be able to take into account everyone’s usage patterns when making a decision on which plan to get. I use a smart phone, my husband uses a blackberry, my daughter is a phone-a-holic (she’s 15) and my son never uses his cell phone (we got it for him for emergencies), putting all of this on one plan didn’t look to be an easy task.
But, I did my research on the various plans on the web and then went into a Sprint store. The salesman could not have been nicer. He asked about all four of our usage patterns and what we primarily use our phones for. He understood pretty quickly that my daughter, my husband and I are all pretty heavy phone users, but that my son is a minor user at best. The salesman recommended that for now we don’t include my son on the family plan, but rather get him a prepaid phone loaded with minutes — the minutes cost more to use, but we won’t be charged a monthly fee. When he starts to use the phone more, we can switch him over to the family plan.
We checked into different cell phone family plans my husband, daughter and myself and he recommended the “Everything Data Family – with Any Mobile, Anytime” plan. This plan has free unlimited data (perfect for me and my husband) and unlimited mobile to mobile calls, unlimited calls after 7 and unlimited texting (perfect for my daughter). I think that the unlimited mobile to mobile calls is wonderful (whoever thought of it must have a teenage) – because of this we were able to get a 1500 minute plan for the three of us.
With Sprint, we’re spending around $160 a month (plus $100 initial outlay for my son’s phone), so, not only does my phone work now, but I saved us a ton of money over AT&T! In addition, now that we have unlimited texting and unlimited mobile to mobile calls, it’s nice to know that I won’t be opening up any surprisingly exorbitant phone bills from my daughter! Sprint has made a former-AT&T customer very happy!
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