So you think you need a cell phone? The first thing you need to do is to find out what cell phone company has the best coverage for where you live, or where you are traveling often. Then once you have the cell phone company picked out, you need to determine what cell phone plan to get. Sounds easy, right? Well get ready for some number crunching and agonizing as its not as easy as it sounds.

If youre getting a cell phone primarily for safety, good for you! Emergency use plans are the cheapest, but only if you never use it! You may consider 911 the only emergency call youd make, and that would happen perhaps once in three years. But you really need to think again. I had originally gotten a cell phone for safety and assumed Id make an emergency call never, or rarely. What I didnt realize was that Id be calling 911 not for myself but for car accidents Id see happen, for accident victims that didnt have their cell phone or lost it in the wreck, to call in drunk drivers, to call in aggressive stalking drivers and that doesnt even cover the family emergencies! My $15 a month emergency use only was used only for emergencies, but ended up costing over $60-$100 a month!

The cell phone plan base price covers only so many minutes of airtime, and after that you basically pay through the nose. So it is very important to figure out what you think youd use the phone for, figure out how many minutes a month that might be, and then get the next higher cell phone plan. It is cheaper to get too many minutes in your plan than not enough. I made that mistake too. I got a reasonable cell phone plan, thought I wasnt using it very much but got a big surprise when the bill came. To come out ahead you really have to keep track of every minute you spend on that cell phone. Otherwise youll have a heart attack when that cell phone plan bill shows up every month.

Thankfully cell phones these days have call timers and call limit timers so you can accurately keep track of your minutes and get a beep when a preset time such as 20 minutes has been reached. It doesnt seem fun and carefree, and you have to wonder how much those teenage girls spend a month on their cell phone plan, but unless youd like a $200 bill for one cell phone a month youll have to keep tabs on it!

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