AT&T Cell Phone Plans: Senior Plan for $29.99

Monthly Price:

$29.99 (available to consumers 65 and older)

Anytime Minutes:

200

Cost for Additional Anytime Minutes:

45 cents per minute

Night & Weekend Hours:

500 minutes on weekday nights after 9 p.m. and on weekends

Roaming & Long Distance:

No roaming or long-distance charges

Data & Messaging:

Not included

Rollover & Unity Minutes:

Not included

Note: AT&T Rollover minutes are unused anytime minutes that carry over from month to month for up to 12 wireless billing cycles. AT&T Unity minutes grant you unlimited calls to and from AT&T wireless, home and business customers (or more than 120 million phones, according to AT&T).

Included Standard Features:

Unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes

Three-way calling

Call forwarding

Caller ID

Call waiting

Basic voicemail

Extra Fees, Taxes & Requirements:

Two-year service contract required

One-time $36 activation fee

Regulatory cost recovery fee of up to $1.25 to help defray the cost incurred in complying with obligations and charges imposed by state and federal telecom regulations

Gross receipts surcharge

State and federal universal service charges

Taxes and other fees also apply (see here for details)

Published On:

Oct. 11, 2008