Cheap Cell Phone with NO DEPOSIT

I have recently done a little shopping around for a cell phone. I work at night and while I am gone my husband spends a bit of time on the phone dealing with the owners of different sites that he moderates.

We currently have a trac phone. We got it several years ago because we rarely use the phone and a trac phone worked out to be cheaper than any of the other options out there.

Including the price of the phone and the cards bought to add minutes to the phone, our yearly cell phone spending was about $100. After that year we started buying double minute cards that were good for a year. So, for one year the face value of the cards would double. It really wasn’t a bad deal at the time. We didn’t use the phone much and were paying much less than we would have for a cell phone plan.

Recently my husband has increased his cell phone usage. When I am at work at night he is moderating different websites and often uses the phone to communicate with the owners of the sites. The frequency we were buying cards for the trac phone had increased significantly to the point that I thought it would be cheaper to go ahead and get a phone with a nights and weekends plan.

So, the search was on. I researched a lot of companies on the internet looking for the best deal. I had found quite a few but where we live the availability of a good cell phone company is almost nonexistent. I say almost only because maybe i missed something on my searches.

It seems cell phone service is more expensive where we live than the quotes I could come up with in different parts of the country. Then there is the deposit that most of the companies require. I have seen advertised where some cell phone companies have prepaid plans where you can pay in advance and still take part in the plans they offer with no deposit. However, this does not seem to be an option in my part of the country.

So, I tried searching for prepaid cell phones. The same type i’d been using for years, but looking for something with a plan. Trac fone offers various plans, but the price range for what i was looking for would’ve ran about the same i was already paying. They offer no sort of nights and weekends plan. At least not where I live.

I really didn’t think I’d find a prepaid phone with this type of plan. I figured I’d either have to suck up the costs of buying a couple of cards a month or give in and pay the deposit with one of the cell phone companies in town.

Much to my surprise and delight, I found what I was looking for. Virgin Mobile actually has nights and weekends plans at a pretty decent price. For about $35 a month we get 200 or 300 anytime minutes and 1000 nights and weekends starting at 7pm. I have seen advertised where many companies actually charge you to start your nights and weekends at 7pm. So, this really sounded like a good deal. A thousand minutes on a trac fone, even buying minutes in large quantities at the cheapest rates, would cost me about a hundred dollars.

So, we bought the phone. I expected it to be much like a trac fone. And, in many ways it is. But I was amazed at the features with this phone that trac fone does not offer. Real music ring tones and downloadable graphics. I have to say that I was pretty impressed. The phone we bought was a little light weight flip phone at a pretty decent price. I believe it was around $15. Not a bad deal at all compared to many I have seen advertised with prices this low only being available if you enter into a contract.

I was worried that we might get a lot of dropped calls, which was a problem in the past in the part of town that we live. But so far we have not had a single dropped call.

With all of the cell phone companies out there charging outrageous prices and requiring steep deposits, I think Virgin Mobile is a pretty good deal.