The price of a cell phone is quite costly, no one will argue that point, but in most instances we do actually need them to accomplish all the things we do in the course of a day. We can’t imagine how our ancestors got along without that cell phone and matching tower that let’s us communicate with anyone and everyone from nearly anyplace, but paying the bills isn’t always fun.
If you’re ready to cut the costs on your cell phone bill and bring them down to size, sit down with your bill and evaluate what you have vs what you actually need and can live without.
To begin with, look for the services that you don’t use and have never used. We found that we’d signed up for roadside assistance to the tune of ten dollars per month.
We also had AAA as well as several people we could phone in the event of an emergency so the reason why we’d taken this service was a mystery to both of us. Sometimes they ask and you just say yes without thinking right?
Go down through the bill and find all of these services and determine what you can cut out and what you’d like to keep. If you’re paying for 600 text messages each month for the phone lines and find that you used just thirty in the past year, it’s quite likely that you’re not going to miss them if you cut them down.
We found several services that we could quite ably do without. We also found that our minutes for the plan were 1500 and that we’d never gone over 900 in the several years we’d had the phones, but that we had just fifty text messaged and consistently went over on the use of them.
We swapped out our cell minutes to the lower amount added fifty more text messages, saved about thirty dollars per month on the cell phone bill just for that change alone. Take care however when you change cell phone minute plans. In some cases the cell companies begin you on an entirely new plan and will consider this the beginning of your contract.
We did see this and phoned the cell phone company to ask about the change in our contract. We were told that it was part of the deal when we switched out the cell phone plan. That it had then become a new plan and was subject to the same things that any new plan was. Our response to that was the same as your own can be if you are faced with this kind of confusion.
We told them that each new plan and contract had thirty days grace to close that contract without a penalty and that since we had been loyal customers for many years, we did not appreciate not being told such an important detail and would be changing our “new” contract to another company since our thirty days were not yet up. Miraculously the change in contract was negated and our contract remained with just 8 months to complete it.
Get rid of minutes that you haven’t used in a year or more and get rid of services that you don’t and have not used and you’ll find that your cell phone bill loses the bloat that you’d rather not have to pay for.
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