I ALWAYS come to DU for advice, and I need some now. Tired of my nephews and

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62. TRACFONE. Or NET10. They are prepaid, work great, and are cheeeeeeeep!

I've used Tracfone for years. www.tracfone.com. The same company also owns net10.

I buy a phone (Each of the prepaid cos. sell only certain phones.). You can buy the phone at Walmart or Target or Amazon, or thru the company's website.

They usu. come with a few minutes for you to get up and running.

I buy a one-year card. It has a certain # of minutes. The minutes I don't use roll over to when it comes time to buy another card (or you can buy airtime online, and it'll download miraculously to your phone).

I spend less than $200 for the WHOLE year.

Also...some of the Tracfones are called "double minute" or "triple minute" phoes. You buy one of those, and however many minutes you buy....that number will double or triple when loaded on your phone. For the life of the phone! I bought 400 minutes for the year. 1200 minutes downloaded into my phone! I have an LG touch phone. It works as well as expensive smart phones. The phone cost me about $40 to $50.

I used to have a cheap Motorola flip Tracfone (it cost about $20). It worked great. I could get reception everywhere...even places where people with iPhones couldn't get reception. With my cheap little Motorola.