I've been using Page plus for a while now. Their system has some bugs, but once you get used to dealing with it, it's hard to find cheaper. I pay $25 for 400 minute or texts and that lasts 4 months, so $75 a year for me. My daughter pays $12 for 250 minutes + 250 texts + 10MB and that lasts a month. Good Verizon network and quite a few different pay as you go plans. Color me happy.

Went to one of the cheap prepaid wireless providers and never looked back. Instead of paying verizon $35 a month I'm paying these guys $6 or $7 a month. Caveat, I don't use a lot of minutes, but my wife does and her prepaid cost is $30 a month. Yeah the customer service sucks, but if you just need a phone and not all the whiz bang stuff, you don't need to get raped by vzw.