Has anyone signed up for Straight Talk prepaid wireless phone service offered by Wal Mart?
There are two levels of service. Option 1 costs $30 for 1000 minutes, 1000 messages and 30MB of data with a life of 30 days. Option 2 costs $45 for unlimited minutes and messages and data with a life of 30 days. No contract so you choose your level of service each month. They use the Verizon network. You can subscribe to automatic renewal every 30 days.
I have the minimum Verizon Family Share plan (1400 minutes) with 3 phones which includes me, DH, and my sister (unemployed). Sister and I have texting for $5 each per month. Sister and I each use about 1,000 minutes per month including all the free minutes between Verizon users and evenings/weekends. DH uses about 500. We have no home phone. The monthly cost is $110 plus $23 in taxes and fees.
Purchasing 3 Straight Talk $30 plans would save about $35 a month and provide the required amount of minutes and plenty of texts and data.
It would take about 9 months to amortize the phones if we bought relatively nice ones.
This seems like a great plan. What am I missing?
There are two levels of service. Option 1 costs $30 for 1000 minutes, 1000 messages and 30MB of data with a life of 30 days. Option 2 costs $45 for unlimited minutes and messages and data with a life of 30 days. No contract so you choose your level of service each month. They use the Verizon network. You can subscribe to automatic renewal every 30 days.
I have the minimum Verizon Family Share plan (1400 minutes) with 3 phones which includes me, DH, and my sister (unemployed). Sister and I have texting for $5 each per month. Sister and I each use about 1,000 minutes per month including all the free minutes between Verizon users and evenings/weekends. DH uses about 500. We have no home phone. The monthly cost is $110 plus $23 in taxes and fees.
Purchasing 3 Straight Talk $30 plans would save about $35 a month and provide the required amount of minutes and plenty of texts and data.
It would take about 9 months to amortize the phones if we bought relatively nice ones.
This seems like a great plan. What am I missing?