{"id":285,"date":"2005-09-08T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/08\/switching-your-cell-phone-plan-to-save-money\/"},"modified":"2005-09-08T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T19:40:06","slug":"switching-your-cell-phone-plan-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/switching-your-cell-phone-plan-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching your cell phone plan to save money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going over your cell phone minutes for the month, call your provider and tell them you want to switch to a plan with more minutes <strong>for the current month<\/strong>. With T-Mobile, you have to call them on the telephone, you can&#8217;t just use their web site to change your plan.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, if you are using less minutes, switch to a less expensive plan for the current month. I&#8217;ve done this several times now with T-Mobile. Before moving, I had a 300 minute plan. When I was driving cross-country, I upped to the 1,000 minute plan. Now I&#8217;m back down to 600 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Getting hit with overages of $0.40\/minute is st00pid. <\/p>\n<p>In a few months, after I settle down with a lease on November 15th, I might join in with my sister&#8217;s plan, getting 1,000 minutes for $30\/month. I&#8217;ll wait to see how good T-Mobile service is in my new house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going over your cell phone minutes for the month, call your provider and tell them you want to switch to a plan with more minutes for the current month. With T-Mobile, you have to call them on the telephone, you can&#8217;t just use their web site to change your plan. Likewise, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}