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Replacing Land Line with Basic Cell Phone?

I want to have a cell phone for my home, no texting, just a basic cell phone. Any ideas? I had Triple Play with Comcast and after my contract expired my monthly rate went up about 70% so I dropped phone service. Now I'm trying to find a very basic, cheap cell phone plan to replace my land line.

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September 1, 20110 found this helpful

Do not get a trac phone if you can help it. I have had bad experiences with those. You will be happy you have a cell phone, you can fill them up with cards as you go or get a reasonable plan. They have them at most stores, all kinds of phones, and there are phones with cameras, etc. I love them. We stopped with the regular land lines a long time ago and have never once looked back.

 
September 1, 20110 found this helpful

Depending on where you're at try MetroPCS. I've been using them for a few years now with no issues at all.

 
September 1, 20110 found this helpful

www.cellreception.com/.../ (put in your state)
where are you located? Some systems work better in certain parts of the country than others! I have t-mobile; had them since 1998 back then they were voicestream. I have been off contract for several years and price has stayed the same!

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Cricket is a cell service out here that works pretty good and they are month - month and I don't think any contract!

 

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September 1, 20110 found this helpful

Verizon has a plan to add a house phone to your cell phone plan for $10. It's part of the "add a line" deal. You can add another cell user or a house phone. But you need to get decent service in your area of course. It's basically another cell phone but you can keep your land line number and the phones are like regular land line phones.

 
September 1, 20110 found this helpful

Depends upon what services are near you. Straight Talk ($45/mo unlimited) is fairly basic and it does include everything, just in case at some point in the future you do text or do internet...but you should really look at the coverage maps, because ST works in my daughter's area, but not in mine.

 
September 3, 20110 found this helpful

I can totally recommend Consumer Cellular! Their phones are extremely reasonable (or even free). My plan is 700 anywhere anytime minutes for around $35 a month complete with taxes, etc.

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Their customer service - either phone or e-mail is the best I've ever seen. And the best part - absolutely NO contracts!

 

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October 4, 20110 found this helpful

The first thing you need to do is make sure there is adequate reception in your area. I say this because we want to do the same thing but where we live reception is hit or miss, mostly miss. So we are waiting till we move (which we have been planning for several years now anyway).

Also, there may be only one company that has good reception in your area. Check that out with your neighbors.

If you are lucky enough to live in an area where you have good reception I'd say go for it. I know people (that dont' live in my area) that have done that and are very happy with it.

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Good luck.

 
October 4, 20110 found this helpful

I'm probably one of the few people who doesn't have a cell phone. We used Vonage for awhile through our computer but quickly realized if we lost power we also lost our phone.

For one week after April 27th, 2011 all of Alabama had no power for 5 days.
All my neighbors cell phones were useless because of all the cell towers were damaged.

They also had no way to recharge their Cell Phones and the lines at all the gas stations, if they were even opened were very, very long. In many cases it was hard to even recharge their phones while they wasted gas, running their cars.

Our house line was still working and basically our house became the call center for the entire neighborhood.

 
December 29, 20110 found this helpful

You also can go to Consumer Cellular and it is cheap. You can get 300 minutes a month and long distance for 20.00 a month. It is through aarp, but you don't have to be a senior citizen either to get that rate.

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It is new this year. Check it out on www.ConsumerCellular.com. I just use mine for emergencies so it works for me.

 

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