It started as a Christmas gift idea. My mother is from the generation that thinks a cell phone is only for an emergency and then also forgets to keep it charged. (Don’t get me started on that.) When you do the math on her calling plan -$30.00- and the number of calls she makes a month – I would say three five minute calls would be tops- that comes to something like 1.90 per minute to place a call, plus whole months where she doesn’t even use the phone. There had to be something more economical.

During the holidays I came across the cell phone section at Best Buy and they had all these slick-looking pay-as-you-go cell phone displays and a light went off in my brain. Sure the brochure said some calls would be .25 a minute for the first three minutes, but even if my mother made 5 five minutes calls all at twenty-five cents a minute, the cost each month dropped from $30.00 to $6.25. All she would have to do was use the phone at least once a month to keep the number active, and keep the $%%$ phone charged.

Now the catch.

More on Pre-Paid Cell Phone Plans Here.

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