How high are your cell phone bills? Do you go over minutes?

I use a prepaid cell phone. the calling card is for 120 minutes for $30 a month. I hardly ever use a phone though, so it seems to last me a while. If you do not use your minutes up in one month, they are still good the next month. I never go over my minutes to use but I do run out of minutes sometimes.

How can they do away with that with out telling you? Do you have a contract with them? If you do then it appears that they breached their end of the agreement.

I dont have a cell phone, but me husband does. The bills that I have to pay is around the 55 dollars, CAD, which is not much. he doesnt call very often.

I never go over my cell phone minutes if anything I will go over my allowed number of text messages but lately I have been cutting back on those as well so that hasnt been a problem. Plus I have Cingular so I have a large amount of roll over minutes so its practically impossible for me to go over.

I have a prepaid cell phone for that exact reason. I usually try to spend around $30-40 a month. And only a few people have my cell number.

yeaaa i goo over minutes for sure with my girls but its not that costly ... :_ or is it .. :P

I think it is terrible that they did not tell you that they were dropping the plan. A good customer service oriented company would have sent some kind of notice to you before the plan was being dropped so that you will know. It is probably in the fine and small print in the contract that you signed, but I think they should still send notices of the change so you would know what to expect.

i have pre paid cell phone.

i have a cell phone whit recharging card....i dont have bills to pay...

I had no idea that a cell phone company could change your plan without any notification- That sounds so illegal. How would you know and be able to change the way you use the phone? I would have fought this tooth and nail. I'm checking with verizon to see if they can do this- I would think they have to give you notification prior to changing the plan. Can you cancel the plans and switch to another now? Without paying the cancellation fee? You agree to certain terms for the 2 years (or how ever many you sign up for).. If they change those terms you should be able to cancel without any fees. Thanks for the heads up!

Dropping service or changing plan unilaterally. Do try to lodge a complaint with the Better Business Bureau in your location. Your phone company may settle because of the negative publicity. They probably have something in the fine print that allows them do do this. There are a number of other malpractices that cell phone companies have been accused of; these are: 1. Charging for dropped calls. If a call is less than 30 seconds, it is considered a dropped call. This happens because of line and interconnectivity issues. 2. You ring somebody and they do not even pick up the phone, and you get billed for the minute. Cellphone companies call this air-time and claim that you are using the infrastructure, so you should be charged. 3. Watch out for those "Roaming bills" They can sting. 4. Data charges - if you use your cellphone for data calls, watch the data charges. They are out to get the consumer, and because it is a new and booming industry, the regulators have not caught up with the operators. So almost anything goes. The subscriber needs to be vigilant. You could consider asking them for Internet monitoring, so you can log into their web-site and monitor the unbilled calls on a periodic basis, and not just wait for the bill to arrive.

Lol my parents have had many of big bills in the past lol they no longer have cell fones

I do not think that it is right at all especially if it was a written agreement.

yeh they charge too much...if u take 2 phones of same provider then the charge between them them will be lesss

no.. i dont charge much more.. and because i dont have mobile. only..i have..to.. get through mylot..only..

My bills are usually around $47 (after they charge the FCC taxes). I get 600 minutes a month and free calls from 7PM to 7AM. I have never gone over my 600 minutes though; even though they're only 40 cents a minute after that. I really don't use my cell phone very much, but I do need it, for when I go out. You never know when you'll need to make that important phone call. Plus, I'm afraid of what I'll catch on a public phone. No, it's not right for them to do that to you, without writing to you first. My cell phone company has always communicated with me (T-Mobile).

I'm in India using HUTCH a GSM Service. I've been using it since 2001, when it was introduced. My phone bills have been averaging at Rs. 600-700 every month. Though i have HUTCH 2 HUTCH 600mins Calls free i tend to exceed them most of the time coz i call my friends very often in case ofa problem wid my PC and also call ppl wid a different GSM service.

u cant say anything about this because some ppl do fraud also the company sometime charges high but not this much but a bill of$500 is too high

No that isn't right! I think they should tell you. Those jerks sound like they're only out for the extra buck by not notifying you. This is one of many reasons why I use a pre-pay cellphone. I'm using as much as I put on it, and I can check to see how much money is left on my phone.

thay are really abusive!