A Prepaid Cell Phone is a service in which you are limited to the number of minutes depending on the one-time plan you paid for. While signing up with a cell phone company means you have a contract with that company and pay several different fees to cover your calltime minutes, Prepaid does not provide fees other than the connection fee and airtime minutes, thus a little cheaper. And because there's no contract, you can discontinue your service without having to pay a termination fee. However, once you activated your Prepaid account, you are given a set amount of time to use up your minutes before you are disconnected and get a new one. For example, Cingular Wireless's $15 prepaid plan gives you a time limit of 1 month to use up your $15 worth of minutes on your phone before renewing. And