Prepaid Pay As You Go Plans

• "Prepaid Pay As You Go" plans let you pay a specified amount of money for service and add more at any time. With Boost Mobile, the Pay As You Go plan is $2 per day, while AT&T charges $1 per day when the phone is used and 10 cents per minute.
  
  

Prepaid Monthly Plans

• Prepaid monthly plans offer features and minutes just as postpaid plans do, but they must be paid in advance. Boost Mobile lets you pay $50 a month for unlimited calls and messages or $60 for unlimited service on a BlackBerry PDA device. Tracfone users can get 50 minutes of use for $9.99 per month.
  
  

Prepaid Feature Plans

• With Verizon, prepaid users get unlimited texting to other Verizon customers and 250 extra messages for $10 per month. AT&T prepaid customers get 1,000 messages per month for $9.99 or unlimited messaging for $19.99 per month.