It’s 2025, and more people are finally getting on board with prepaid, largely because of ever-increasing prices and broken promises from the Big Three carriers. Still, I’m sure we all know a few holdouts, or you might be one yourself. A little over a year ago, I argued that prepaid was a better option for many people, and that reluctance to switch was driven by persistent myths. Many of those points still hold, but awareness has improved, and so has prepaid market penetration.
When you remove some of the most common myths from the equation, what are the real reasons people still don’t switch to prepaid? I dug into the most common ones I hear from friends, family, and online communities. Here are the biggest reasons some people say prepaid isn’t worth the switch. We also look a bit deeper at how valid these reasons are in reality.