Switch to prepaid?

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dczerniec

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I am using significantly fewer minutes than I am paying for currently and I am thinking about switching to a prepaid plan. I have a verizon family plan at $60/month for 700 minutes. I will be going to only one line when my contract expires and I need some advice on what would be best for me.

I use approximately 150 minutes per month and make/receive around 50 text messages. There are some days when I do not even use my cell phone, but I don't know that I want to pay a per day usage charge. The vast majority of my calls are from/to verizon wireless customers, but I am not committed to verizon. I'd like to upgrade to a phone with a full QWERTY keyboard for easier text messaging.

What's out there for me? What service would you recommend?
 
Verizon Wireless offers minute savers for long term customers.

Ask them if they have any other price plans available before switching to prepaid. Prepaid is actually more expensive than contract.

Verizon offers plans starting at $34.99 for new customers or current customers interested. But, they also offer a more extensive line of plans for customers who wish to save minutes (but that you have been a customer for more than a year).
 
I use the NET10 prepaid service and am very pleased with their coverage, customer service and ease of use (for recharge). I pay 10c a minute anytime and anywhere. I usually get the $30 card which gives me 300 minutes and 60 days of service. Unlike some of the other prepaids you do not pay daily use charges with NET10, and it's the same low rate for local, long distance and roaming.
 
I originally posted this question as a new thread, but I don’t think anybody saw it, so I’m asking it again here. I hope that by posting the same question twice I’m not in violation of forum etiquette. If so, I apologize in advance.

I am getting laid-off from my job because the company is going out of business. We all have Blackberries (mine is only six month old) with Verizon Wireless as our service provider. We are allowed to use our company cell phones for personal calls, and I don’t have a landline so, the number I have on my Blackberry Curve has been my only number for the last five years. My boss doesn’t care if we keep our Blackberries and/or phone numbers because he is going out of business anyway.

What I would love to do is go to a VZW store with my fianc
 
You can actually get your boss to allow you to have the contract...

He would need to sign it over and you would need to pass the credit requirements.

Porting to Metro may or may not work. This is because Metro PCS uses Verizon's phone numbers, generally. Some exceptions exist but Metro basically rents the numbers from Verizon. This means you would be porting metro to metro...then when you port back you are still porting a Verizon number to Verizon.
 
A little more information:

I talked to my boss, Steve, today about our Verizon contract. Steve told me that pretty much everybody else’s phone besides mine is about two years old, and that our contract with Verizon was up in December of 2008. So I guess that means that we are month-to-month now. The Blackberry Curve 8330 that I have was originally purchased new for the VP back in July, but she left the company shortly thereafter. My old phone was destroyed at work because somebody spilled coffee on it (the person didn’t tell me and it wasn’t cleaned it up right away). So Steve gave me the former VP’s Curve 8330 as replacement and he had Verizon swap the numbers around.

As far as Steve allowing me to have the contract, he seems to think that we won’t be able to do that. We have a competitor who, while they are not buying the entire company, they are buying some of our assets (some inventory, customer lists etc) and at least four, possibly five of my coworkers are going to work for them. The competitor is also a customer of Verizon and they intend to add the phones (and phone numbers) of the migrating employees to their Verizon contract. You may say that we’re wrong, but Steve and I are afraid that once those other phones go on the competitor’s Verizon account, my number will disappear forever. Also, I probably would not pass the Verizon credit check for a contract in my own name because my ex-girlfriend ruined my credit. Her antics included not paying the bill on her Cingular/AT&T phone (which was in my name) and then letting the contract lapse early. However the big whopper was that she let her car get repossessed and I was the co-signer on the loan. It appears to me that using the Verizon contract that my fianc
 
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