Originally Posted by
Spld cyclist
Tonight I checked Net10, Boost Mobile, and Straight Talk, all of which require a data plan for a smart phone, and all are $40 or more minimum per month.
Then I found Consumer Cellular, which might be just the thing:
https://www.consumercellular.com/Cart/Plans Rated highly by Consumer Reports and PC Magazine, has coverage in my area, AND has the Moto G for $150 (though it's just the 8 GB version). For pricing, talk is separated from text/data. 200 min/month talk is $15 and 1,000 texts + 100 MB data per month is $5. (There are probably some taxes/fees on top of that). It allows you have no data at all, but I would want the texts, and $5 ain't much anyway....
Net10 is tracfone (either GSM or CDMA).
Consumer cellular appears to use ATT's network.
Is the G the LTE one? If you have LTE service for data (and use data), it's much faster.
Prices on Google for the G US GSM):
8gb $180
16gb $200
8gb LTE $220
It looks like you could buy the G elsewhere and use it in consumer cellular.
You could get away with 8gb. Anything reasonable you'd want to try/explore would work with that.