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You can probably beat that annual cost if you roll your own with tracfone. Depends on how much you use your phone.

I've used tracfone for many years. It's cheap service but we don't use cell services hardly at all, but we always want the availability of a phone. I got a couple of iPhones from them, service connects to the new phone pretty much automatically if you follow directions. I find the service fine for my needs.

Make sure you have a minutes refill card available when you go to activate a tracfone. Go check out their web page, it's probably all the interaction you'll ever need from them, or want.

If you're not comfortable keeping track of minutes and adding service days when you need to I'd suggest you look at Consumer Cellular (https://www.consumercellular.com). If I lose the love for tracfone that would be my next move.

Edit to add a PS: My monthly cost for using a smartphone with tracfone is about $10. That could go up substantially if I used lots of minutes or data.