Teens and Cell phones
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Teens and Cell phones
| Mon, 11-26-2007 - 7:44pm |
My 16yr old wants a cell phone and I was thinking about pre-paid. Net10 sounded good to me. www.no-evil.net Anyone have a pre-paid or Net10. I thought it would be a good way to have her experience paying bills. Any thoughts?

I found that the prepaid phones are so expensive per minute that it's not really worth it unless you are one of those people (like my elderly mother) who only wants a phone for emergencies--most 16 yr olds want a phone to be able to call their friends.
We put our DDs on our family plan, which is only another $10 or so a month.
We also added the kids to our plan.
Personally I find plans are less expensive per minute, include more options like texting, free weekends/evenings etc. and often come with free phones and free phone upgrades after a certain time frame.
We have been fighting the battle of the cell phone, too.