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Who Needs a Prepaid Phone?

3. If you don't talk much...

If you have a lot of leftover minutes each month on your current subscription plan and they don't roll over, you could be wasting money -- sometimes a lot of it. For example, Verizon offers a basic plan for $40 per month, giving subscribers 450 minutes -- or 7.5 hours -- of paid talk time per month. If you only use your cell phone for an hour or so each month, you can do better For as little as, say, $6 a month, as on Boost, prepaid plans can save you several hundred dollars per year. And here's the best part: Unused minutes usually rollover to the next month with prepaid plans.


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