I’ve blogged before about replacing my expensive SprintPCS plan with something more reasonable. It looks like I’ve found “reasonable.” The company is called Net10 and the plan is pretty unique. Net10 is a prepaid service, an MVNO that uses T-Mobile and Cingular‘s GSM network. The service costs 10 cents a minute, period: no daily charges, no other fees other than the usual taxes. Plus, minutes don’t have to expire in 30 or 60 days. You can buy minutes which don’t expire for a whole year, making service cost as low as $12.50 a month.
I did an analysis of my calling habits and figured out I could save money with pay-for-use. We’ll see. I ordered a reconditioned Motorola phone for $40 which should get here any day now. With it comes 300 free minutes (that alone’s worth 30 bucks). Thus, it’s an amazing value.
Oh, and my favorite thing about Net10? No contract! If I don’t like them I’m not on the hook (no pun intended).
I’m going to use both services side by side for a while to evaluate them. I’ll let y’all know how it works.