OT: Any experience with Verizon INPulse or other prepaid cellular?

Cherry2000 · Jan 17, 2009

For a while before we got our Verizon phones my hubby & I used Net10. I don't know how well it works throughout the country, but in our area it worked really well and it only cost 10 cents per minute. HTH

bethann21 · Jan 17, 2009

Verizon's prepaid has worked very well for me. I don't use my phone a lot, otherwise it would be too expensive. My plan is 10 cents a minute plus 99 cents per day on the days you use it. I have great reception, and travel into rural areas a lot. You can even link your debit/credit card up and make a free call to the billing center and add minutes when you have to. I highly recommend it.

AtomicWoman · Jan 18, 2009

Thanks for the responses so far! I'm still thinking about switching, but the only problem is that both my husband and I have cell phones, so even if I were just calling him, it would cost $1.98 per day of use (each of us would be charged $0.99). We have a Verizon Family Plan right now, and when I ran the numbers, looking at average days of use and non-IN minutes, there wasn't a heck of a lot of difference between the INPulse and Family Plan charges. I'm still looking at all the alternatives. AT&T has a family plan with shared fewer minutes that costs $20 less than the cheapest Verizon plan. But sometimes AT&T is not great, reception-wise, around here. I wish there was a Family Plan that only had like 200 minutes, but so far I've only been able to find that on individual plans. And when I add up the cost of 2 individual plans, it's actually more than we're paying for Verizon's cheapest Family Plan right now.

Well, thanks again!

BTW, has anyone checked out http://www.billshrink.com/, where you can compare both cell phone plans and credit cards? I tried to check it last night, but it was undergoing maintenance. I found the site on the Wall Street Journal website.