How many cents per minute with this T301g phone?

I am going to think about getting this phone, but how many cents per minute?

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Hi,
Good question. The answer depends on how many minutes per month and how much you’re willing to spend.

Option #1 10 cents per minute. $100 per year
The T301g is a double minutes for life phone, so when you buy an airtime card the number of minutes on it doubles.

So a 400 minute one-year card cost $99.99 and gives you 800 minutes. On top of that there is almost always a bonus code that adds 200 minutes (sometimes even 250 minutes) to those 800 minutes. So that comes to a total of 1000 minutes. This works out to 10 cents per minute. If you don’t use more that 1000 minutes a year, then the phone only costs you $100 a year or about $8.33 per month.

Of course, if you use more, you can always buy more minutes at this low rate.

Option #2 17 cent per minutes, $80 per year
If you use less than 500 minutes a year (i.e. just for emergencies etc.) then you can buy a single $20 60 minute airtime card every 90 days. The 60 minutes on each card doubles to 120 when activated on the phone.

So you’ll end up buying four cards in a year which will give you 480 minutes. You will spend $80 (plus sales tax) for the cards, that works out to about 17 cents per minute. However, your monthly cost is now less than $7 per month!


Samsung T301G cell phone phone costs about $20 and sometimes you can get a refurbished one that also include a $20 airtime card, so you’re really getting the phone for free. Shipping is also usually free.

Hope this helps!