When I first signed up for AT&T, I wrote that rollover minutes were pretty much a joke. I kept racking up rollover minutes and never used them until last month. I use my cell phone for work and last month I had to be in a ton of conference calls and managed to use up basically all of my rollover minutes! With my anytime minutes, rollover minutes, and then putting the final calls of the month on Ooma, I was on the phone for something like 2200 minutes. That is basically a complete work week on the phone!
The rollover minutes saved me from upgrading my plan for 1 month; as the conference calls are probably going to continue, my 450 minute plan just isn’t going to cut it any more. So while I initially thought it was a gimmick, it ended up having some value to me. Now that I’m on a 900 minute plan with A-List (which I found out is being discontinued and if I switch to a family plan, I may lose it), I’m going to start accumulating rollover minutes again! For those that don’t know, A-List is 5 (or 10 for family plans) numbers that you call frequently and don’t use your minutes. I put the conference call numbers on my A-List, so my usage will drop to virtually nothing again.