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You know, so many of us are stretched and we're trying to make our budgets last through

the month at a time that for many people incomes are down.

So one area I like you to look at is how to attack your monthly expenses and one that

a lot of us just pay because that's what we pay is what we pay for cell phone service.

So I want to give you a couple of choices on cell phone service that comes with unlimited

data from two different companies one geared towards an individual paying for his or her

own bill and the second for people that are joining together with others on a plan to

save money.

Let's start with the one for individuals.

There's a company that runs really cute TV ads called Mint Mobile.

For what's known as a reseller they bake capacity from the big three cell phone players

and then they sell their own branded service under the Mint Mobile name.

Mint Mobile is doing a deal right now on unlimited data plans where you got unlimited

talk, text and data for a flat $30 a month.

But there's some hoops you have to jump through.

So let's say you want to do this $30 a month plan.

You could be on one that's significantly higher with others if you're doing unlimited data.

What you do is you pay Mint Mobile for the first three months when you port your number

in.

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