Todd Allcock wrote:

> I think she's used 10 minutes in the last 12 months. (Thank you,
> T-Mobile, for a $10/year minimum refill policy!) ;-)

Well maybe Richard meant that if those family members had had cell
phones when they were between 20 and 50 years old!

My mother's also on T-Mobile prepaid and probably uses 20 minutes a
month. She went from $50 a month on AT&T to about $2/month on T-Mobile.
First she got conned into switching from AT&T TDMA to AT&T GSM, which
resulted in loss of coverage at the places she travels to the most as
well as higher prices, then Cingular took over and raised the prices
again. She was most concerned about having to learn to use a new handset
and re-enter her contacts, so I walked her through unlocking her Nokia
handset.

The downside is that she has no T-Mobile coverage at my house in
suburban Silicon Valley or at my sister's house in suburban Atlanta.