[Bossman]

Get tmobile on ebay. You spend $100 and you automatically become "gold rewards" and get 1 year expiration. Any additional topup, even the $10, extends it for another year. As posted above, you should be able to get one on ebay, with about $150 domestic minutes, for about $10 or so. Tmobile also charges the the same $0.10 for both local and international SMS (I have mine mainly for international sms). HecK! you can even get a basic quadband phone (Moto V195) from the tmobile prepaid page for $40. So, the prices around here are not that bad after all. My 3 siblings in the UK that visit here regular each have a tmobile prepaid sims that they use whenever they are here. They have had it for years, and the 1 year validity after topup has made it very easy for them to keep the sims alive.