wonder which prepaid you are using ?
We have our son on Virgin Mobile right now....
but he's starting to eat up the minutes :)
It seemed the best at 90 day interval for adding funds.

"Patrick C" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> We use prepaid, buy 1000 minutes at a time for $100 and only pay sales tax
> on that (less we find refill card on EBay). We live in Illinois and our
> local sales taxes are 7%. The minutes last a year then are rollable if you
> don't use them. Of course we don't use that many minutes to begin with and
> the prepaid phone selection isn't that great. We have 2 non camera phones
> and a Sidekick II I only use for 10 days every 3 months ($10 a crack) when
> we go on vacation so we don't have to lug the laptop around.
>
> "P.Schuman" <pschuman_no_spam_me@interserv.com> wrote in message
> news:Vz45j.2844$Vq.1321@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...
> > My son is out looking at different cell plans so he can get a smartphone..
> > However, I've warned him - for budgeting purposes - that the real monthly
> > cost
> > is not just the detailed voice and/or data plan,
> > but it also includes the local TAXES.
> >
> > Looking at some of my old Sprint bills,
> > it looks like a $39 plan had about $7.50 added in taxes = 20%
> >
> > So - what do you see on your bill as far as actual plan cost vs added
> > taxes ?
> >
>