Trying to find a phone plan that’s paid by the minute, not by the month. I want a phone that only charges me when and if I use it – no recurring monthly fee whatsoever, and no ‘inactivity’ fees either.
I don’t use my phone much at all. Even if it costs $5 per minute, that would still be cheaper for me than even the cheapest monthly plans. And I don’t need any data connection at all, ever. Just voice calls and texts.
Such a thing used to be possible, but after searching and searching, I can’t find any such thing now. Do they no longer exist?


Your best bet might be something like tracfone that you top up with cards you can get pretty much everywhere
No idea what the cost on them is these days and I haven’t looked into any of their fine print in probably 20 years, but I’m pretty sure they offer a one year plan
Tracfone has apparently been bought out by Verizon and only exists as a subsidiary of Verizon now … and at least for right now, Tracfone’s entire website is down, replaced with ‘maintenance pages’.