Verizon was screwing me even worse. $35/mo for a single phone with 100 minutes; my regular usage was about 50 minutes per month. The month my son was born, th

Verizon was screwing me even worse. $35/mo for a single phone with 100 minutes; my regular usage was about 50 minutes per month. The month my son was born, the bill came to something like $150 for about 300 minutes used. Net result: over the last year, I paid about $500 for less than a thousand minutes. I recently switched to Tracfone (affiliated with Net10, and targeted at even lower usage). So far I've been quite pleased with call quality, though I haven't left the neighborhood yet.