Get the Best Prepaid Cell Phone Service For Yourself and Keep More Money in your pocket.

As I was doing research about the best prepaid cell phone plans available, I came across a number of articles about prepaid cell phone service with outdated facts. Although some things may have been accurate 5 years ago, with the prepaid cell service market expanding rapidly and pricing wars that have broken out, consumers in 2010 have more money saving cell service choices than ever.

If you have been held back choosing prepaid due to any of these myths, this article will clear things up, you should be well on your way to picking the best prepaid cell phone plan relevant to your needs.

Who else wants to enjoy great cell phone connections and keep more money in your pocket?

Myth 1- Prepaid cell phone service is only economical for people who use their cell phone very little. Otherwise, as the logic behind the myth goes, the high per minute cost will make it impossibly expensive when compared to a normal contract-based cell phone.

Fact - This was true in the early days of prepaid wireless cell phone service. Today, the per minute cost of prepaid cell phone service have fallen to as low as 5 cents a minute. With the national roll-out of the TracFone/Walmart Straight Talk service, consumers can get on a plan for $45 for unlimited talk, text and data. As a comparison, the average contract cell phone user pays $78 a month for 1,000 minutes of usage. So yes, prepaid cell service usage is also economical for people who use their cell phones a lot.

Myth 2 - Prepaid cell service minutes expire after a certain period of time if you do not use them.

Fact - The best prepaid cell phone service plans allow you to keep and rollover unused minutes and service days. With TracFone and Net10, all minutes and service days added to the phones will rollover, as long as you maintain your service. The minutes will only expire if you let the service end without recharging it periodically. You do have to either recharge it periodically like very 3 months, or else pick low cost monthly billed plan. Then all your minutes will stay active. Just like a regular contract-based phone, if service ends, the minutes will no longer carry forward either.

My friend Rob is on the $15 monthly billed Net10 plan and his prepaid wireless cell phone has accumulated a nice number of unused minutes over the last 2 years. These minutes will never expire unless he cancels the plan and walks away from the phone.

Myth 3 - There are all kinds of expensive surcharges associated with prepaid wireless like roaming fees and daily access fees.

Fact - Roaming fees are not specific to prepaid plans, some contract-based cellular plans also charge that. Beyond that, major prepaid cell services like TracFone and Net10 do not have any roaming fees associated with calls. It is the same rate for a local, long distance or roaming call.

Daily access fee is a category of fees charged only by certain type of prepaid plans. In some cases, it may make sense because for a daily access fee like $4, Verizon prepaid cell service lets you make unlimited calls for that entire day. Depending on your usage pattern, that could be cheaper than trying to pay 10 cents for each minute used. Again, it varies from prepaid service to service. Services that have daily access fee options will usually provide an alternative non-daily access fee option. Other services like TracFone or Net10 do not charge daily access fees in any of their plans.

If you travel a lot and need roaming, or if you think daily access fees will not fit your usage patterns, the best prepaid cell service plans for you should not include these fees. Lucky for consumers these days, there are plenty of choices out there for prepaid plans. There you have it, 3 Prepaid Cell Phone service myths exposed. Don't let misinformation hold you back from enjoying great service and more savings.