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Have you ever been upset for the cell phone bills when they exceeded your budget? With many new functions of cell phone available nowadays, it is easy for people to pay much unnecessary money for their cell phones. But if you have a careful plan about it, you don’t have to be shocked by your monthly cell phone bills. Here are some ways to save money on cell phone bills, and when you follow these guides, you will surely save a good amount of money.

1. Make use of the bundles that the cell phone service providers offer.

Many young people are extremely fond of texting messages, so they can choose such service like paying $5 for 100 messages monthly, or some more generous bundle of $8 for 500 messages. So you’d better consider how many messages do you send monthly and choose the most economical bundle. Except for bundles for message, there are bundles for the call service and Internet service too. Some people call a lot, so they can choose the call bundles; some people like surf the web through cell phones, they can choose the Internet bundle. Using these special services the providers offer is much cheaper than not.

2. Use the same plan as most-call friends

Many cell phone service providers offer cheaper calls for a fixed group. For example, you and your most-call friends are of the same network, now you can apply to be a group and then when you call each other, the charge is lower than you call other people who are not in your group.

3. Make your service providers to one.

If you make your cell phone, Internet and home phone to one, probably they have some favorable services for you, for example, you prepay a certain amount of money for your cell phone, and they might provide you free Internet service for a period of time, or if you prepaid your Internet service for one year, probably the service provider discount your cell phone bills.

4. Cancel unnecessary services

Sometimes you might have subscribed for some services that you don’t really need. Check your service list and find out the services that you don’t want and then cancel them. That is a lot of money too.

5. Be aware of the time period

Some cell phone providers divide the service time into heavy hours and idle hours. Phone calls during idle hours are cheaper than that in heavy hours. So if the call is not urgent, make it during the idle hours.

6. Use the Internet to cut down your cell phone bills.

Some Internet service providers offer much cheaper service than the cell phone service. Making calls through the Internet costs less, for example, the Skype. If you make long distance calls or overseas calls frequently, you are suggested to use the Internet.