I should start this off by saying I don’t use my cellphone as a landline replacement, I just use it on the go so people can get in touch with me, I can get in touch with them and I can send and receive texts. That’s it. I don’t use unlimited evenings/weekends nor a data plan nor in-networking calling nor anything else. That’s why this works.

Anyways, I think that monthly plans are insanely expensive but I don’t think I can live without being connected via cell phone, so a happy medium is prepaid. It’s better because it’s cheaper and you get

1. Free Call Display
2. Voice Mail
3. No System Access Fee
4. Credit carries over till the next month

for (at least for me) $23 a month including tax. Even with my old $20 base plan, it ended up costing at least $32 per month. So I can save $9 a month and quit any time (for free!).

Sure you can’t yap forever, but if you sign up with Rogers and get their Evenings/Weekends plan with Auto Saver, your cost is 4 cents a minute at night and on weekends! That’s more than enough time per month for me, plus I hardly use my phone during the day time anyways.

So if all you’re doing is to use your phone sporadically, then my advice would be to go with prepaid rather than a monthly plan. Even better is if you can get someone’s old cellphone and not have to pay anything more than the sim card and activation.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: cellphones, rogers