Best Cell Phone Plan [Contract v. Non-Contract]

Depends how many minutes you need and whether you need much or any data or not.

Nowadays when people are completely new to prepaid, I tell them to check out Page Plus and go from there since PP has good/great plans for most people. Someone might want more data or a family plan would save them a few bucks or whatever and thus a different carrier might be better, but PP's plans is a good starting place to look at to get an idea if nothing else.

Also, you can use most any Verizon-branded phone on it you want other than 4g and maybe iPhone (I forget at the moment). It's pretty nice to have a kickass phone with wi-fi and whatever else yet not having to pay extra just to be able to use a smartphone.

There's other carriers with good deals too, but, like I said, I'd start there to get an idea.

After Verizon tried screwing me over while under contract and me not having many options to stop them, I pretty much swore off contracts after that. Screw contracts.

One thing to watch out for on prepaids is whether they can roam or not. There might be a cheap Sprint prepaid, but if the coverage sucks, you also might not even be able to make a call when out of area because it can't roam. Just something to keep in mind.