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

[Jamastiene]

76. I use an AT&T Go Phone.

I put $100 a year into the account and that's it. If I don't use it all, as long as I put more in by the end of that one year, the minutes roll over. If I use it all and need more before that, I just add some more. You don't have to pay anything monthly and you can get a decent cell phone for about $40. Or, at least, that is what my phone cost. Mine is a Z221 made by AT&T. I was happy to leave AT&T for my land-line, because they kept creeping up the price every month. But, for the cell phone, so far, I have had no trouble with them. The phone itself cost $39.99 and I love it. Phone calls are $0.30 a minute between 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM. Between 7:00 PM and 7:00 AM, it is $0.10 a minute...and it is 10 cents a minute on weekends too. Data rates are reasonable too. I can't remember the exact details on the data rates, but it is not bad for checking the weather and just loading web pages every once in a while, which is all I really use the internet for on it. I do most of my internet stuff on the computer and use the phone mostly for emergencies and for checking the weather radar during storms.

That flexibility and no hassles idea works for me, anyhow. YMMV