Some use them for business, some pleasure, some both.

For those of you that use them, how many minutes a month on average do you actually use?

I have no idea. My wife got me the cellphone and she gets and pays the bill for it.

prolly 5-10 minutes per day (primarily work).

I use it at home though in lieue of a landline phone........because I use dialup and am always on CBid.

I'm not sure. I have free night minutes and I work nights.

Funny thing I just read at work:

We have a suggestion box at work. Some little socialist asked why the government doesn't pay for our minutes! Forget the fact that screeners aren't even allowed to carry cell phones (let alone use them). This person thinks the government should be paying for ALL of our minutes! He/She was nice enough to offer to buy the phone 🙂

I have to use my cell at work and the govt does not reimburse my minutes. But then, working nights keeps me from paying for the minutes to begin with. Some peoples children...

What is your line of work, Drath?

I work for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

1500+ mins per month

1500 ti 2000

We shut off our last home phone about six years ago. We use our cell phones exclusively, sharing minutes on one plan. We have Cingular "rollover minutes", and have so many thousands of minutes piled up it doesn't matter, each month our total unused minutes go up.

We talk to each other, as well as any Cingular phone customer (all our family) free, no minutes count. I can talk to anyone in my family, including children and grandchildren (in any State) all day without it counting a single minute. Since this accounts for the huge percentage of our calls, we've never come close to using our minutes.

By using our cell phones instead of a home phone, we're never gone, never miss a call. We use a cable modem (broadband) for the internet.

Tuck

unlimited text messaging cut down A LARGE amount of my minutes as most of my phone calls unless they are to a girl im dating or trying to date are a minute or less.

you home?

yep

Wana bbq ill bring the food?

yep... I got beer.

Aight c u in a minute.

45 seconds tops even with a southern drawl.

I can't even begin to guess at how minutes I use a month. Between cell and direct connect, probably about 10,000.

I use my cell pretty much exclusively. I disconnected my home phone and use BB internet. Skype serves me well for calls if my phone breaks.

SMS messages take the place of calls, and are almost free. I pay about $8 per month for unlimited emails from my cell phone.

I buy long distance calling cards that will call anywhere in the world for less than 4 cents per minute.

My roaming charges are quite high though, as I use my phone while abroad. I average about $3500 USD per month in phone bills. Incoming calls are free.

My only phone is my mobile, which work pays for.

Unlimited calling - long distance - SMS - web - eveything - it's great.

For my fiance, we signed up for a Cingular plan...around $60 for way more than she could ever use...including SMS.

^ Damn Adroomi you talk WAYYYYYYYY too much!

yep....I oughta put Adroomi intouch with my father in law........he LOVES gabbin on the phone.

I could think better ways to spend $ 42,000 a year . . .

It's the roaming charges that kick your butt. It's a business expense. If it was out of MY pocket, I'd use smoke signals instead.......

Cell and Home phone.. both write offs... $60 a month for cell, $52.00 a month for two lines.. one dedicated fax, the other unlimited local and long distance...

used to run Verizon wireless for 3 yrs, they didn't honor the 2 yrs free upgrade on the phone after 3 yrs service the battery went dead, so I took it in for a replacement.. they didn't service that brand of phone any longer I would have to upgrade and sign up another 2 yr contract.. F*ck them.. when they asked me what I would like to do.. I told them to canx my lines (3) and shove their phones up their a**'s!

Went with Cingular and have been very pleased ever since.. roll over bank is up to 1200 something going into my second month on this contract.. most all my family is on cingular so we talk free... 7pm to 7am free nights and weekends and that is running their lowest nationwide plan!

Hog

We have a family plan for the three cell phones that we have with unlimited minutes. We use about 3500-4000 min a month. In AK we kinda get bent over on the price, I think that we pay around 200 a month. BTW Draathar, my GF works for the TSA as well.

Stay Safe

ken

i buy 660 minutes for $100.00 prepaid. if i don't use them up by the end of the 12 months they are gone.

last year i had to make long distant calls just to use up the last 200 minutes.

that would make it 400 per year.