(03-03-2018, 01:45 PM)RoamingKat Wrote: How do I get a good deal on just talk and text?
Over time I ended up with 3 cheap setups. I keep them because I live out in BFE, and plan on boondocking where cell is limited. All three of these worked at the RTR site.
Verizon 3g
If you pay
$15/mo on a grandfathered verizon phone you'll get unlimited talk, unlimited text , and unlimited (3G) data. As seen on Jim's thread on CRVL. I usually only pay $5/mo so I just get data. I run my sticks/bricks network on this one, believe it or not. I cancelled my DSL that was only minimally faster and cost $70/mo.
AT&T MVNO Airvoice
I have a
$10/mo Airvoice account. It will use .10/min, .10/text, .066 per MB and rollover unused funds. I have over $100 in my account because I don't consume it all.
Caveat: I use google voice for texting. It goes over data and so is much cheaper than SMS proper.
T-mobile grandfathered prepaid
.10min, .10/text, no data. The winner here is that you can keep it alive for
$10/yr since the expiration is 365 days. I have over $100 on this one, too, and growing since I don't make $10 worth of calls in a year.
I use this in a $60 dual-sim android phone with 700MB/mo of free Freedompop data (AT&T "MVNO") in the other slot for data. Again, Google Voice for texting.