At 10 May 2008 14:25:47 -0400 Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:


> Of course, contract/postpaid plans that contain buckets of
> minutes--minutes that go to waste--and which lock you into paying no
> matter what happens in your life, are for suckers.


In your opinion, perhaps, but I find them a necessary evil. In my case, I
want unlimited data for web browsing, e-mail, etc, for both my phone and my
wife's, which no carrier offers on a prepaid plan. Therefore, my low-end T-
Mo family plan and two $6 web add-ons are the cheapest way to accomplish
the task, despite the 700-800 minutes of our 1000 minute bucket left on the
table each month! (We use more than 200 minutes- more like 800-1000
between us, but the majority are to/from our five "favorite" numbers, and
not counted as billed minutes, but would be on a prepaid plan. Of course,
if that were the case, we'd make far fewer calls!)