Okay, so now that I know that cell phone plans can qualify as a utility bill, I need to find one. It needs to be the most inexpensive one. I need only one line. So far, I think a personal plan for my business is less expensive, since business plans cost more when it’s only one line; they all seem to want us to have 10 lines. I don’t need a lot of bells and whistles. It just needs to be a working line.
Anyone have a good plan they can recommend? Do you think Labor Day will bring any bargains in this department?
First, we would consider the reception you will get in the shared office area from a carrier and then go for price of the plan.
An inexpensive plan would be the prepaid plans like the Walmart Straight Talk Bronze Plan for $35 +tax with 10GB of data. Walmart Straight Talk in some areas is ran on the Verizon system (usually east coast). Their Straight Talk Gold plan is $55 +tax has unlimited data and 30GB Hot Spot Data. (Brother-in-law has in Georgia and son has in California). This service works better with better phones (using a cheap low grade phone with it usually degrades service a bit).
I need post paid, not prepaid. I don’t care about reception, as I use Google Voice and just need a line for the utility bill that Amazon demands. I am also going to put it on an eSIM for my phone, so my phone will have two lines. If one doesn’t work, the other will. For the most part, I believe both will work if they are the standard post-paid lines.
Oh, and I don’t have a busy shared office. If I’m at my coworking space, they have a private phone room. However, I rarely get business calls. It’s not that type of business.
I’ve been very happy with Consumer Cellular. Good reception, reliable service, but most importantly, inexpensive. Not quite sure where a single line comes in; we have two lines and it’s under $50/month for the two. And we’re not on the cheapest plan.
Okay, just looked; single line with 1GB data is $20. And they give a discount for AARP members.
And you can get a phone for only $49, if you’re okay with a pink Barbie phone.
That might have some advantages since it would be less likely to be picked up ‘accidentally’ by someone else.
My wife is notorious for leaving hers sitting someplace.
The first time I called her line they answered but no voice so all I said was “I’m going to call the cell provider and turn that phone into a brick so when I call back you can talk or I can have security walk around listening for a ring”
When I called back a guy actually answered. “Oh, I just found this sitting here” and he was two rooms away from where she had left it. I was not real pleasant when I got it from him…
A Consumer Cellular mobile phone bill can be used as a utility bill for Amazon account verification
. Amazon’s Seller Central guidelines specifically list “mobile phone” as an accepted type of utility bill for individual and business sellers. This applies to both Amazon Seller accounts and Amazon Pay merchants.
Requirements for submission
To be accepted by Amazon, your Consumer Cellular bill must meet the following criteria:
Match your account information: The name and address on the bill must exactly match the name and address you provided during your Amazon registration.
Be recent: The bill must be dated within the last 90 days (for some verifications) or 180 days (for others).
Be authentic and legible:
Submit a scanned copy or a photo of the full, unaltered document. Screenshots are not accepted.
The document must be high-resolution, clear, and readable, with all corners visible.
It cannot be password-protected.
Important considerations
Check the dropdown menu: When you are submitting your documents, the available options for “Proof of Address” will appear in a dropdown menu. Amazon advises that your options may include “mobile phone bill”.
Beware of conflicting information: Some third-party seller blogs or older forum posts may mistakenly claim that mobile phone bills are not accepted. However, the official Amazon Seller Central help pages clearly include them as an option.
Thank you, @Picks_by_Nisha and @Lost_My_Marbles. Maybe I will use Consumer Cellular after all. It is very inexpensive and I can use it with an eSIM (according to my web search).
Do you have home internet? Your internet provider may have very, very competitive rates if you have their service. I get $30 per month per line with unlimited data. Data slows after something like 20GB each month but so be it. They piggyback on ATT network so it’s very reliable, at least in my area. Bundling might even get you a teaser rate for a year so that can save a lot of money, at least for that initial year.
I have a client who does this. Not because they want their own IP (That helps but they aren’t in ecommerce) but because the REGUS wifi is soooooo freaking slow, unless you pay for “15mb high speed!”
He went with T-mobile stand alone internet, he is very happy with it. 4-5 people use it at the same time along with VoIP phones
I get my Internet service from Xfinity.
I get my mobile service from Xfinity Wireless and qualify for a plan that uses Verizon’s network. I have two lines which share 1GB of data per month, rarely exceed the 1GB and last month’s bill was $24.60 including taxes and fees.
for leaving hers sitting someplace.