Monthly Plans:  

Unlimited Plans

Net10 Unlimited, priced at $79.98 monthly, offers most of the features of the unlimited offerings of our TopTenREVIEWS award winners but at a somewhat higher price. Still, it’s a good plan and, when combined with some of Net10’s other features, will meet the needs of many consumers. The plan includes unlimited voice calls, including domestic long distance, and unlimited text messaging (SMS). Multimedia messages (MMS) are $.10 each and the mobile web is a potentially pricey $.10 per minute.

Other Monthly Plans

Net10 offers three limited use monthly plans which it calls Easy Minutes. Unlike Net10’s usage based options, these plans renew automatically each month so you have to register a credit or card or checking or savings account with the company to enable automatic billing. The basic level could be a very good choice if you use your mobile phone rarely. It’s just $15 per month for 150 minutes. The other Easy Minutes plans are $25 for 250 minutes and $40 for 400 minutes.

Text messages cost $.05 each to send or receive. The company makes pricing of MMS messages more complicated than it should be though they are essentially $.35 each. To calculate the cost, they charge 2.5 minutes of airtime, so $.25, plus mobile web access time at $.10 per minute. The typical MMS message shouldn’t take more than a minute to send, hence our $.35 conclusion.