Do You Pay a Flat Monthly Cellphone Bill Pay-as-You-Go?


Everybody knows monthly cellphone bills are a disaster, and according to the New York Times, you'd probably be saving money on a pay-as-you-go plan.

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A consumer group called the Utility Consumers' Action Network wants you to know exactly what you're paying per minute. Why should you care? Because where pay-as-you-go plans often cost as little as $0.05/minute, if you try to get the per-minute cost of your monthly plan, you may be paying five times as much. UCAN's survey data suggests that:

Fifty-one percent of customers in the survey paid 25 cents a minute or less, and 49 percent paid 26 cents a minute or more.

The article isn't necessarily claiming that pay-as-you-go plans are always the best route, but depending on how you use your phone, pay-as-you-go could save many people serious cash—an appealing thought these days.

So we're wondering: Are you on a monthly plan or a pay-as-you-go plan with your phone? If you do pay that monthly bill, do you have any idea what your per-minute cost is? (We can say that we have no idea, and that our bill has never done much to clarify.) Let's hear your thoughts in the comments.