Mobile Carriers

[67comet]

I'm waiting on my phone (its been sitting in California for a couple weeks).

I live in Utah, and my daily phone carrier is Verizon. I'm interested in an inexpensive alternative for my PinePhone UBPorts edition. I've been eye-balling Mint Mobile, but it's really not much cheaper than what I'm paying (I've got unlimited everything for ~$70 a month currently).

Out here we've got T-Mobile & AT&T for our GSM carriers, and Sprint & Verizon for our CDMA carriers. I know a lot of the smaller companies (I call them spin-off companies, since many are just the big guys under a different name).

TracPhone seems to be popular on the forums, and I have had friends use their pre-paid services with pretty good success. My girlfriend's son uses Cingular, and she uses prepaid from Walmart (Verizon I think) but neither have much data (and I use much data  ).

I usually get the military discount, and I'm only a few years away from getting and senior citizen discounts  .

Is there a decent way to get a better deal over the phone, or in person? I don't want to pay too much since this phone won't be my daily (unless it makes me happier than my Pixel 2XL).

Try Visible, republic wireless, us mobile, red pocket

(Reply Thank you, I totally forgot about Visible (looks the best for me currently), and Republic Wireless is attractive because I can pay by the year.
Thanks again..