If you watch television, you've probably come across a large number of cell phone advertisements that talk about the rates and plans available by the company. Roughly five years ago, Sprint made a huge breakthrough in the cell phone industry with the first-ever unlimited voice minutes plan. This unlimited plan allows the user to make and/or receive calls anytime, day or night… without any restriction for a single rate flat fee. This flat fee, in the beginning, was around $200 per phone line each month.

Over the past several years, other service providers began to adopt the unlimited voice plan into their service. After all, they saw it as a tremendous impact not just on phone usage but also on the company. In fact, providers are now offering unlimited texting between users. In the beginning, it was only for people who shared the account but now texting is available for any cell phone.

Again, the Sprint phone company led the way by dropping the unlimited voice plan and creating an unlimited everything plan. This means the Sprint user can make/receive unlimited calls, text and picture messages for flat rate. This flat rate used to be $149 but is currently $99 a month. Many of us who chose the unlimited voice plans realized it was time to throw out our used or refurbished cell phones and get on board with new plan.

During the past few months, the cell phone industry has changed once more. Many refurbished cell phones have made their way to the landfill since people are watching for prices to fall again on the unlimited voice plans. If you choose a refurbished cell phone, go into a local retail store, you may find their prepaid unlimited plan for around $60 per month. If you want to stick with an unlimited plan on a contact, you can find some for as little as $49 per month and the unlimited everything plans for around $99 per month.

Due to the cell phone competition and the boost in popularity for cell phone electronics, the industry is much more reasonably priced and necessary for life. My personal feelings to the whole matter is…I am waiting for the day that cell phone service no longer needs that credit history to hand out phones to their new customers. I see for the future where plans for unlimited everything will be a mere $49.99 a month.

If you're in the market for a used cell phone or perhaps a refurbished cell phone, go by your local used or refurbished Sprint phones store and find out what kinds of unlimited plans they have to offer. Most retailers want customers to go with an unlimited plan since the representatives are often paid on commission.