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$10 a month my butt!
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Boo hoo. You wanted a corporate society and now you have it. Complain if you want, but you will bow to your corporate overlords as you hand them your wallet.
As a person from the UK this is shocking.... I pay £23 ($26) per month for my 120gb Sim contract (£17) and unlimited data watch contract (£6)
I'm with Visible, which is run by Verizon, and watch plans are only $5/m without fees. Crazy how 'parent' companies can behave when compared with their own MVNOs.
Rogers in Canada is CA$10 per month, which is about US$7.50, plus tax. There are no surcharges, but there is a one-time activation fee. This is an add-on for an existing phone plan. No extra data is provided, but that's OK because that's shared with the phone's data plan.
It sounds like the OP needs to switch carriers.
I pay $0 though since I keep my phone with me 100% of the time anyway, so having a cellular plan for my Watch would be superfluous. That's CA$120 a year I don't need to spend.
It sounds like the OP needs to switch carriers.
I pay $0 though since I keep my phone with me 100% of the time anyway, so having a cellular plan for my Watch would be superfluous. That's CA$120 a year I don't need to spend.
I pay $10. It use to be $5 but sometime over the last 3 years they upped it. I need to check my plan.
I was AT&T for several years, but didn't care for their service, tried T-Mobile and the signal was horrible at my house and work. Verizon is the only one in Tulsa that gives me really good signal at work and home
Glad I saw this post. I was considering adding my watch to my Verizon plan but it probably wont be worth it for me if I am spending an extra 15 per month for it.
I cancelled the cellular plan on my apple watch S7 after getting charged over 15.00 a month for something I barely used.
Interesting but do you actually use and pay it? Reason I ask is, I thought I saw that advertised too, then when I went to ask about setting it up they would not do so without a bunch of fees, similar to what OP described for Verizon.
Basically it seems to me that most watch cellular users in the USA must be on one of the 3 big telecomes already, paying 50-100 or more already for phone. People like me who never avoid those companies like the plague are SOL since most smaller companies don’t offer watch service at all.
Also in full disclosure, “avoid like the plague” is not currently true for me since I started paying Tmobile $10 / month for paltry but decent monthly ipad data service, it’s OK for my very limited use and worth it. However there were no fees like startup or other hidden stuff, and even though I have a “number” for it, Tmobile staff indicated I can’t get the watch service because that must be connected to a Tmobile phone line only and not a data line.
/rant
Yeah for all my occasional letting myself get frustrated by this system of how difficult it is to use the watch cellular at least in the USA, it is also frequently reassuring to realize it’s not something I need at all, just would be nice for a few random and infrequent 2 hour or less periods where I’m not near my phone. If they made it easier somehow, I might pay $5/month for it and perhaps even $10/month, but it’s too much of a hassle currently.
Apple watch data usage is not a 1 Size Fits All and if the US carriers are pricing it that way then we'll continue to see many Apple Watch owners skipping adding that to their watches.
I'd be shocked if I used more than a MB or 2 in a given month and there is no way I'd pay $10 for that.
I'd be shocked if I used more than a MB or 2 in a given month and there is no way I'd pay $10 for that.
I’m getting device credits for my watch with Verizon, so I have no choice but to pay the $5 plus surcharges and fees until this watch is paid off.
I have phone service with T-Mobile and pay a flat $10 / month for the watch. I keep forgetting to change it to the lower plan. I also have the T-Mobile 5GB / 150 days for my iPad.
When I added our watches to Verizon, didn’t pay much attention to the increase. Last fall we deleted our watches since we barely use the option and also deleted one of our iPads. Our bill went down from $142 to $80.
T-mobile has two plans: $5 for 500mb data and $10 for unlimited data (these prices with autopay though).
T-Mobile - $10/mo. No fees, taxes, surcharges, etc. Just $10/mo.
I just looked, it's $10 + $4.96 for my current bill.
The $10 would be discounted for you, but depending on your locality, the telco fees will vary and are not discountable. The fees are the same exact for our iPhones, FWTW.
It's so perplexing; an iPad internet access fee through ATT is a flat rate. But because a watch is capable of making a phone call, then it gets a slew of telco fees and taxes.
If it can make a phone call, the government is charging fees and taxes because they can.