What do you pay for cell phone service each month?

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I have had a cell phone since I was in seventh or eighth grade, so I have experience with just about all the phone companies. At the very least, all the major ones. I remember when Nextel did the beep beep phones, and when Cingular was still a phone service company. The one that always gets the younger generation is that I remember when you had to count how many daytime minutes you were using so you didn't go over. OR, telling people to call you back after nine when it's free! But all that is besides the point. Whatever the point I am trying to make is. All it has accomplished so far is making me feel OLD. With the costs on everything skyrocketing and people being even more budget aware then they were a few years or even months ago, people are trying to save money wherever they can. That of course includes the bill that just about everyone has, the dreaded cell phone bill. There are two "main" choices when it comes to phone bills. Post paid and pre-paid. I had post paid for awhile, with Verizon (most recently) but the bill left me flabbergasted every month when we got it. So about two years ago we dropped the post paid service and switched to prepaid. We went from paying over $200 a month to paying under a hundred for both lines. We stuck with Verizon prepaid for awhile and then switched to Straight Talk because it was cheaper then Verizon. We pay $40 a month each, so $80 total. We have been with Straight Talk for over a year. I don't have very many complaints about them. I get reception in places that other people don't. Which is often really helpful. I do auto-pay, so we each save five dollars a month. A few months ago they changed the details of the plan for the better. The plan we are on (both of us are on the same exact plan lol) is $45 a month. It might not work for everybody, but it works well for us. For $45, or $40 with the auto-pay savings we get: Unlimited talk, text and data. Although they say that they have the right to review the account if you use more than sixty gigs of high speed internet each month. Also we get 10 GB of hotspot each. So that's pretty nice, especially when internet goes out as much as it does here. Of course the downfall of prepaid phone service is that for the most part you have to fork over the full amount for the actual phone. I think we paid $150 for the other half's phone and just under $200 for mine. He has a Samsung something, and I have a Moto Stylus 5G. So what we save in monthly bill, we for sure used to pay for the phones outright. But I guess overall it is still a pretty good deal.