To offer alternatives….

If you’re looking at going down the budget prepaid route and Verizon has been working well for you, I’d really recommend trying Visible. $30 a month for the base plan with unlimited talk, text and data. They recently added spam call blocking and it seems to work alright.

You could also go with AT&T prepaid. They have an “annual” plan where you pay for the entire year up front and it equates to $25 a month or $300 a year. That’s for unlimited talk and text with 8 gigs of data. Bonus is having access to their spam call and text blocking if that’s an issue for you. AT&T’s spam blocking works better than Visible in my experience.