>>It's truly a sad industry where the most news come from creative billing; far less so on the services. I have the cheapest cell phone (a freebie LG from net10, without even the model name anywhere on it), a prepaid with just phone and messages, and even on that one the legal & financial takes more space in the manual than the features do. Which is why I'm just lucky I don't even need this one - I keep it for the few rare times when I do need it. I got about 2500 unused minutes accumulated on it.
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>...and if you're on NET10 you'll find that those 2500 minutes expire too.

Yes, if you stop paying. That's how I accumulated them - kept adding those $15 a month just to keep the number... nice number, every other digit is a 7, so I thought it'd be easier to memorize. But then I use it so rarely that I still didn't.