Cell phone bill question

[bookishwench]

My cell phone basically functions as, shockingly, a phone. It doesn't connect to the Internet, it doesn't open or send email, it doesn't do text messaging, it doesn't have music, and while it does have a camera, the pictures it takes are basically blurs. Usually, this doesn't bother me, but I'm beginning to realize there may be some safety issues involved in my rather Amish phone. For example, if the campus is closed during the day due to weather issues, the info is sent out via text message (though eventually the classroom phones also display it). Hence, I'm vaguely considering an upgrade, but I admit to being completely clueless as to what "normal" people pay for a cell phone bill. Currently, I'm at about $34. What would be typical?

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Thanks!

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[nightshade1972.livejournal.com]

Call quality is one of the reasons my father initially chose Verizon, as well as their geographic coverage. At the time he signed up, he was still working and he was also traveling significantly for business, so he didn't want to choose a cheaper provider if they didn't have the coverage he needed--it would have been very bad form to be on the phone with a business client only for the call to get dropped in the middle of nowhere! I have no complaints about the call quality, and the only time we *know* we'll have an issue with dropped calls is if we really are literally out in the middle of nowhere. There's a town in TX called Eagle Pass. If you look at the US map of Verizon's coverage, and you see how the whole damn country is a nice bright red except for a few scattered tiny white spots? Eagle Pass is one of those white spots. Assuming you don't travel a lot, that shouldn't be a problem for you.

:-)