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Originally Posted by Blossom
Those on SNAP qualify for a dumb phone with 200 to 300 minutes free a month depending which carrier you go with. However it's just phone/texting no internet. The phones are cheap little things.
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Safelink provides my phone service, paid for by Medicare. Or Social Security, I forget which. For a long time that was a cheap folding phone, as you say, but about 2 years ago they began a bring your own phone plan, which does include data. I had a Nexus 5 so I signed up. I've recently replaced that with a Samsung Galaxy S5. The Nexus is a better phone but I needed better battery life.
Anyway I get 350 minutes a month, or some such. While I had the flip phone that rolled over and I've accumulated several thousand minutes. I don't bother anymore to keep track of that. Last time I looked there were over 8,000 minutes. I think I lost about half of those when I switched plans.
Now with the current plan there's no roll-over but I still have all my old rolled over minutes and since I never use my monthly minutes up I've never eaten into them. I have no idea how many texts I get a month but I've never sent or received more than 15 or 20 so it's not a concern. Last time I looked I've accumulated 5gb data although I'm not quite sure how. That keeps increasing so maybe data does roll over still. I have Wifi at home so most of the time I don't care.
I make full use of my phone, sometimes as a GPS and sometimes to check email when I'm away from Wifi or to look up news stories, etc. It cost me the price of the phone and that's all. And any phone that's AT&T compatible and unlocked will work. I think they also have Verizon support if I used my Verizon Moto E2, although I've never used that as a phone. I bought it on sale new from Amazon for, I think, about $35.
Barry