My AT&T contract dies next month and I've about had it with their options, so I'm looking at ways to rearrange my phone service. One way or another, I'll probably be relying on prepaid for my talk time, and I'm thinking GV might help me smooth out any service/transition issues, as well as augmenting my talk time with VOIP at home.

Does anyone have any feedback on GV, tips, stories of how you made the transition, or other unorthodox mobile arrangements?

Right now my fall-back position is Virgin Mobile USA's Beyond Talk plan: overpay for a so-so Android phone (that can be hacked into adequacy) and it's $25/mo for unlimited data + text with 5 hours talk time. Their coverage looks solid for the places I spend 99% of my time, but if I go far afield, I'll hit dead zones. I'll try to talk AT&T into letting me go monthly on data + text and prepaid on talk time with my current phone, but I'm not counting on it.