There is some confusion regarding what cell phone prepaid plans actually are. Particularly, they are often confused with the related concept of pay as you go plans. In reality, these two plans are not necessarily the same thing. A cell phone prepaid plan is a plan in which you pay for your minutes before you use them. A pay as you go plan means that you pay for each individual minute, rather than a bundle of minutes. A prepaid plan can either be used to buy a bundle of minutes, or to pay for a specific number of minutes at a specific rate for each minute. The primary selling point of prepaid plans is that they do not allow you to go over your minutes. However, many prepaid plans actually do have overage minutes if you purchase bundles of minutes instead of pay as you go minutes, so the adv