Thanks again for the Mint mobile tip.
I got an email from them today that my first 3 months was going to run out soon. They offered me a $ 25 discount plus I got that $ 15 for using your code.
That makes the next year total out to just under $ 14 per month counting all the taxes and other fees. That is only about a dollar a month more than what I had been paying plus I now get 3 GB of data that the other company did not offer. I was also able to buy a cell phone that is better than the one I have been using for a price way under the Republic special software phones. I felt it was about time to change phones as they keep improving and the phone I had did not have an easy to change battery.