Ask YC: Clever ways to get a funded mobile phone?

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As a below minimum wage hacker, I'm trying to come up with creative ways to finance my cell phone (and data plan). I'm about to get off of my AT&T contract and want to play with T-Mobile's UMA offering. Any advice from you clever entrepreneurs?

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Just bragging: I pay $35/month including taxes for a Sprint plan with 3000 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends at 7PM, unlimited text messaging, no roaming, on-phone and tethered "unlimited" EVDO, and a $50 a month credit towards all in-phone purchases (games, ringtones, songs, pandora). This is a Radioshack employee plan and the current one isn't as good anymore. I have no idea what I would do if I had to pay normal price for my cell phone plan.

sprint $32/month inclusive for 500 minutes, unlimited nights/wkds, unlimited text/sms, unlimited data, no roam, tethered data. trying to work my corp discount into this (15%) but there's some resistance.

Virgin has an option of getting ads via the phone but I don't see it as realistic you would have to view a lot of ads to get a meaningful amount of free airtime.

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