On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 09:04:22 -0400, TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Barry Margolin:
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Another reasonable plan is Alltel,
> which I do not think has any expiry time on its prepaid minutes,
> although it is bit more expensive per call. PAT]
I have that. It is something like $.35/min. incoming and outgoing. There is a nasty monthly charge if you don't use it at all for a month, but nothing if you use even one minute. Since I use it for alarms from a public radio station transmitter site, it is almost perfect. The only catch is that there is no roaming. The local area is quite large, so that is not often a problem.