h2o wireless. airvoice wireless.

I currently pay $11.04 a month for my cell phone service with Page Plus Cellular. It's a $12 plan (with an 8% discount at pageplusdirect.com), and gives me 250 minutes, 250 texts, and 10 MB of data. I usually use under 30 minutes/texts per month. My data usage varies, but so far, the 10 MB has generally been sufficient. When I went on a road trip, I switched to a higher plan for that particular month, which also worked out well.

Now I've found a different plan that would meet my needs at an even cheaper price. H2O Wireless has a $10 pay-as-you-go plan that provides up to 200 minutes and/or texts, or 100 MB data, or a combination thereof, and lasts for 90 days.

Supposing I were to use about 100 minutes/texts over 90 days, that would leave me 50 MB of data over those 90 days, which would be about 16 MB per month.
So rather than getting up to 10 MB per month, I could get 16 MB, and at about 1/3 the price.

Their coverage area looks good. Apparently they don't have 4G LTE speed, but that's not currently a concern to me.


Airvoice Wireless is another contender, also with a good coverage area. They have a $10 plan which provides up to 250 minutes, 500 texts, 150 MB data, or a combination there-of for 30 days. So I wouldn't save much money with them, but I'd get 15 times as much data.

The only drawback with both of those is that my current phone is CDMA and wouldn't work on their GSM networks. I like my phone enough that I don't want to switch. And paying to buy a new phone would negate the other savings anyway. Also, since 10 MB of data is currently enough for me, getting more wouldn't really be of much use.


These are other prepaid wireless providers I've come across:

att - gophone - more expensive than Cricket
verizon - good coverage area but more expensive
t-mobile - coverage area not so good
expo mobile - coverage area not so good
metroPCS - coverage area not so good
net10 - nothing that seemed noteworthy
red pocket mobile - coverage area not so good
simple mobile - coverage area not so good
telcel america - coverage area not so good (might depend on phone?). But has international calling features.
ultra mobile - coverage area not so good. But has international calling features.
virgin mobile - coverage area not so good
smarttalk - good coverage area
boost mobile