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MattG728

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Jan 17, 2008
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Hey guys,

I'm a senior in college and my entire life my family has paid for my phone bill. With me getting older, and my contract running up I would like to get the iPhone for a large number of reasons.

With the iPhone 4 only being $99 I figure that would be my best bet, but I looked at the pricing on plans for AT&T and Verizon and it seems very pricey.

The main thing for me besides having a decent amount of data (around 2 GB) is to have unlimited texting since I usually text about 2000 times a month. I could get by with 450 mins easy.

Even if I did 450 mins, unlimited texting, and 2 GB data plan that seems like it would be close to $100 a month. Is there any way to cut costs? Also, how does iCloud affect a data plan? I would love to just stream all my music, and save my memory for apps, photos, and emails.

I'm sure this gets asked a lot, but is there anyway to do this and not spend $100 a month. Heck, if I could just do the data and texting plan on any of the three networks I would do that for the iphone, and pay to have mins on my family plan phone separate. Is that possible?

Thanks for any advice when it comes to plans
 
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