>> AT&T's rollover does not give you more effective minutes. It's the
>> same average number of minutes each month. If you purchase a plan
>> too large for you then you end up racking up massive numbers of
>> rollover minutes,
>
> A couple of years ago I bought the lowest plan I could from
> Cingular--450 minute family plan, offered only to corporate discount
> partners. After discount and taxes, it came in right at about
> $47/month for the two of us.
>
> I gave that up at the end of December, at the end of my two years. I
> had 3000 or so rollover minutes.
>
> And of course, by the time my two years was up, they didn't have
> anything under a 700 minute plan for more money--just like Verizon and
> Sprint.
>
> I could have stayed on that plan, but the 3000 rollover minutes showed
> me that I had no need to pay $50/month ongoing.
>
> So it wasn't that I bought a plan too large for me--it was the lowest
> plan offered. I should have been on prepaid from the beginning...

Your experience mirrors mine very closely. I'm on the T-mobile prepaid
gold now.