The good stuff about Cingular is that if you don’t use all your minutes one month, they will roll over to the next month. The minutes expire a year after you accumulate them, but not all minutes expire at once. So if 50 minutes roll over in March, and 50 minutes roll over in April, in May you will have 100 extra minutes besides whatever your plan includes. At the end of the next March, the 50 minutes from last year will expire, and you will still have the 50 minutes from April.
One of the things that sucks about Cingular is the advertised roadside assistance. I believe it’s 2.99 a month. I don’t know if there is a limit to how many times you can use it, but I do know it only covers the FIRST 50 DOLLARS of the charges. So, if your car breaks down, and you have to get it towed, and the towing charges are 60 bux, you’ll have to pay the 10 dollar balance. They don’t tell you this on the pretty pieces of paper you get in the mail or at the Cellular store. That’s screwed up.