At last there is a viable alternative to paying about $40 every month for a mobile phone basic fee. Net10phones has a low monthly cost of fifeen dollars – plus No Contract! Net10 also has a great inventory of heavily discounted Cell phones, starting $19.99. To see Net10phones, click HERE .

The top guns in this market; AT&T, Verizon, Blackberry all have similar cell phone plans that charge the user a minimum monthly fee of around $40 – which includes a certain amount of usage, and then charge other sums for calls at different times and with different fee structures (see chart below).

However now it is possible to find pay as you go plans like that which Net10 has. There is also a monthly charge, but in the example of Net10, it starts at $15/month which is for 150 minutes of air time. So that calculates out at a per minute rate of 10c – and that is the cost no matter how many minutes you use.

But 150 minutes a month is not many- only about 5 minutes a day – but it is easy to add on time either online, via a toll free number or at a large selection of large retail stores like Walmart, Target and Kmart. For information of all stores, click on one of the links at the top of the page.

To keep your service active, you must buy a minimum of $15/month (150 mins). If, for some reason, you do not use the minimum requirement of time, any unused time willroll over, so you don’t lose them.

Coverage is all all over the US, with some very small exceptions- like rural Alaska – just like every Wireless phone plan.

To see a total map of coverage,  click on one of the links in the first paragraph.

Net 10 sells a large selection of discounted mobile units from the Net10 website with many top of the line companies such as Samsung, Motorola, Nokia and LG starting from $19.99, plus any unit you get form Net10 comes with 300 free minutes  of call time- in other words 2 months.

Any problems with a cell or the service can be answered anytime, either online or by calling their toll free number.

Here is a fast look at how the Net10 plan compares to AT&T and Verizon.