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October 12, 2012

Use Google to Shrink Your Phone Bill

JR Raphael, Computerworld


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Part of the way I get my bill so low is by using a low-minutes plan and utilizing free Google services for the majority of my voice calls. To be clear, you don't have to go the low-minutes route in order for prepaid to pay off, but cutting back on your minutes is obviously one way to make your bill even lower. The prepaid plan I use -- one of T-Mobile's Monthly 4G offerings -- costs $30 a month for 100 minutes and then 10 cents a minute for any minutes beyond that.

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