Cellular Plans with Unlimited Everything Getting Cheaper

These days, TV is full of advertisements for various cellular rates, plans, and so on offered by various companies. About five years ago, Sprint made a huge breakthrough in the cell phone industry with the first-ever unlimited voice minutes plan. This unlimited plan allows the user to make and/or receive calls anytime, day or night… without any restriction for a single rate flat fee. This flat fee, in the beginning, was around $200 per phone line each month.

While the initial response by other providers was slow, today most major service providers now offer some form of package that gives customers unlimited minutes. Slowly, providers have started expanding the idea of ‘unlimited’ to the quickly growing text and data market as well, first ‘limiting’ the unlimted part to users within the provider’s network, and eventually opening it up to any new or refurbished cell phones.

Early in 2009, Sprint broke new ground again offering their unlimited everything plan. This allowed the user to make and receive unlimited calls, texts messages, and picture messages for one flat rate; this rate was originally $149 and has since fallen to $69 per month per line. For those of us that had the unlimited voice plans it was time to throw away our used cell phones and sign up for a new plan.

During the past few months, the cell phone industry has changed once more. Many cell phones have made their way to the landfill since people are watching for prices to fall again on the unlimited voice & data plans. If you choose a refurbished cellular phones, go into a local retail store or shop online, you may find their prepaid unlimited plan for around $60 per month. If you want to stick with an unlimited plan on a contract, you can find some for as little as $49 per month and the unlimited everything plans for around $99 per month.

As is typical with new products and services, the overbearing cost of owning and using a cell phone is slowly coming down and stabilizing as the number of cellular service customers continues to increase. Some day it may even be that it will be unnecessary for service providers to perform the credit checks that currently keep so many people from becoming customers, lowering the overall cost further. Due to the removal of this limitation and partially thanks to the competitive nature of business, service providers will soon likely offer nothing but unlimited everything plans for less than $50 a month.

If you have a used or even a refurbished phone, stop by your local cell phone retailer and inquire about the unlimited options available to you. Many times, the retailers want you to go to unlimited plans; after all they are paid on commission of plans sold.