Here is the deal. I pay a little over 60 dollars a month for my cell phone service through Cingular. It isn’t what I need though. I need something that has a VAST amount more of text messages (a plan with 1000 texts or unlimited is preferable) and a minimal amount of minutes (like to have 200 but could settle for 100)…I would like to also be able to get a free or cheap phone when I sign up for my new service. I would like the ability to send pictures, even if it’s on a contingancy (pay per use) bases. I would like to have nationwide long distance but that’s pretty much a given now. Does anyone have a suggestion on what the absolute best deal (cheapest) I could get away with many or unlimited text and minimal minutes? I need to save at least 10 dollars a month off my current bill in order to justify paying cingular the buyout.
several services aren’t available in my area. i believe the ones that ARE are sprint, us cellular, cell-one, nextel, maybe alltel, cingular (kinda) i think that’s about it, but i’d be willing to get a long distance number so long as i wouldn’t be roaming here…

Tmobile has the best for price wise and amount… the only catch is… that they DO offer unlimited texting but only during several times of the year, it took me three months of having their service before I could finally upgrade to unlimited for only 10 bucks a month! I text all the time so I needed a ton of messages. I am currently on Verizon but just left Tmobile about a month ago because they didnt have service out in the boonies where I needed it. That is the ONLY bad thing about tmobile is that their coverage is usually limited to cities with a population more than 10,000 people.
Verizon has decent plans for price but I do feel their texting is a bit overpriced… for 20 bucks a month i only get 2500 messages. And DONT waste your money on V-Cast services for music or anything, just buy a data cable for less than 10 bucks and a 1 gb memory card from ebay for like 30 and have all the free music you want on your phone.
Their plans run from 30-200 dollars

These are the only two providers I would recommend other than Cingular