If you're looking for a cell phone service plan without the long-term contract or upfront credit check, Common Cents Mobile may be an inexpensive alternative to not only a long-term contract plan but to other prepaid cell phone plans.

Common Cents has only one plan. Their plan is the seven cents round down plan. Just as the name indicates, the service costs seven cents per minute. All you have to do is add airtime to your phone and you can talk at the seven cents per minute rate.

Maintaining Cell Phone Service

One downside to the Common Cents no contract cell phone plan is that you must add $20 worth of airtime to your phone every month regardless of whether or not you have existing airtime. Therefore, you should do a little calculating before signing up for the Common Cents plan. If you don't think you will use $20 worth of seven cents a minute calls in any given month, then maybe this isn't the plan for you.