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How much do you pay for your wireless plan?

yoyo5280

yoyo5280

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Melbourne, Australia & Bay Area
Forgive me for being personal, but I thought it would be interesting to compare the cell phone plans and prices across the world. I was surprised about how expensive they can get in the states.

So, post your
Country:
Monthly Fee:
Carrier:
Description of plan details and how it works:

I'll do mine once I find the bill :p

Country: Japan
Monthly Fee: ¥980 (10.38 USD) x 4
Carrier: Softbank
Description of plan details and how it works:
Free unlimited calling to family, Free calls within Japan between 1AM and 9PM between soft-bank and disney mobile. Unlimited mail to handsets.

Each line is 980¥. we have 4.

Cheap plan, but once you start using data things can get well over ¥50,000 if you don't have the ¥0-5,000 packet plan.

-Omi

-Omi
 
About $110/month with AT&T. That's for 4 lines, including one iPhone 3G and unlimited texting with 700 minutes. It's not anything that you guys should use as a comparison point though because I get an excellent FAN discount ;)
 
My wife and I just moved to AT&T. We're on the 700 minute plan with unlimited texting and the iPhone data. She gets a 22% discount on most of it from her airline. All told we're paying about $155/month.
 
$150

Line 1+2:$60- 700 Minutes
Line 3:$9.99+$30 Data Plan+$0.00 200 text
Line 4:$9.99+$30 Data Plan+$0.00 200 text

$40+$40+$60=$140.

Government fees+Taxes screw you over.


That's with a 20% FAN discount, which only works for the voice lines.

on AT&T's website:

Total Charges:$130
Government Taxes and crap: $9.48
Usage Charges:$5
Credits and other charges/adjustments:$5.xx
 
fireshot91 said:
$150

Line 1+2:$60- 700 Minutes
Line 3:$9.99+$30 Data Plan+$0.00 200 text
Line 4:$9.99+$30 Data Plan+$0.00 200 text

$40+$40+$60=$140.

Government fees+Taxes screw you over.


That's with a 20% FAN discount, which only works for the voice lines.

on AT&T's website:

Total Charges:$130
Government Taxes and crap: $9.48
Usage Charges:$5
Credits and other charges/adjustments:$5.xx
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You consider $9 and change getting 'screwed over'?
 
Country: Australia
Monthly Fee: $59/month
Carrier: Three Mobile
Description of plan details and how it works: $59 contains $29/month for calls/text messages, and $30 for a 32GB iPhone 3GB and 1GB data.
$29 cap plan gives me $150 worth of calls/text messages to any carrier in Australia, and 200 minutes to other 3 mobiles.
Call rates are $0.40 per 30 seconds with a $0.35 flagfall. Text messages are $0.25 to send. There is no fee for receiving calls or text messages.
 
AT&T
450 Anytime Minutes
5000 Night & Weekend Minutes
iPhone Data Plan
Unlimited Text Messaging

Comes in around $92 a month (unless I go to Germany and run my bill up to $168 :p )
 
farkasam said:
For some of us $9 actually means something. But, if it's disposable for you then kudos.
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It's not for me either, but it's only 7% of his total. Our sales tax here in Memphis is almost 10%. My point is it's not that big of a screwage, percentage-wise. There are much better things to say you're getting screwed on than a relatively cheap 7% tax.
 
Country: UK
Monthly Fee: £20/month
Carrier: T-Mobile
Description of plan details and how it works: 600 minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited internet

Texts and mins can be used to any network at any time. ALSO it's a rolling sim only contract which means I can cancel the thing whenever I damn well want. I'm never going onto one of those 12 month + contracts again

I've actually just cancelled that plan and am moving back to pay as you go for 2 weeks before I move to Austria for a while. Payg deal is:

Tesco mobile (using O2's network). £15 top up gets me £45 worth of credit to use on anything and 5 favourite numbers have their call and text charges halved, making it 5p to text my boyfriend, 10p/min to call. Not baad
 
Country: New Zealand
Monthly Fee: $41.95 (US$28)
Carrier: Telecom XT
Description of plan details and how it works: 50 national minutes, 150 national texts, and 20 MB included. International texts are 19c each, and those are the only "overage" I have in a typical month.

This is my carrier's cheapest plan with roaming. Once I get back from the US I'll drop down to a cheaper NZ-only plan.
 
instaxgirl said:
Country: UK
Monthly Fee: £20/month
Carrier: T-Mobile
Description of plan details and how it works: 600 minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited internet

Texts and mins can be used to any network at any time. ALSO it's a rolling sim only contract which means I can cancel the thing whenever I damn well want. I'm never going onto one of those 12 month + contracts again
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That's a great deal. What's coverage like for T-Mobile?
 
Country: Japan
Monthly Fee: ¥980 (10.38 USD) x 4
Carrier: Softbank
Description of plan details and how it works:
Free unlimited calling to family, Free calls within Japan between 1AM and 9PM between soft-bank and disney mobile. Unlimited mail to handsets.

Each line is 980¥. we have 4.

Cheap plan, but once you start using data things can get well over ¥50,000 if you don't have the ¥0-5,000 packet plan.

-Omi
 
Country: Canada
Carrier: Rogers Wireless
Monthly Fee: $54.97
How it works:

200 minutes, 500MB data, Vis. voicemail, caller ID, 10,000 text.

$17.50 voice, $30 for the rest. $6.95 access fee, 5% tax, and 911 fee.
 
Country: USA
Monthly Fee: $200 (including taxes and all)
Carrier: AT&T
Description of plan details and how it works:

This is for two lines sharing 1400 minutes. One line (mine) has iPhone data and unlimited texting. The other has iPhone data and 200 texts.

It is really insane, but we both use our phones a lot (I mainly use data and texting, my mom more voice than data since it's her business phone) so it's worth it to us. We don't have Cable TV, so if you factor what that would usually cost, then the phone bill is a little bit more normal to us :p
 
Surely said:
If you don't consider 9 bucks to be disposable, you probably shouldn't have a cell phone.
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....with two data plans at that.

I don't have a data plan because I can't afford it --- because I don't have the disposable income. At least I didn't before.

jknight8907 said:
You consider $9 and change getting 'screwed over'?
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Some people have a low pain tolerance. ;)

It's just over-zealous use of the words 'screwed over'.



Here's me:

Carrier: Optus
Country: Australia
Type: Pre-paid
Cost: $30.00 (or around $25 USD)
Details of plan: It's a rip-off. I'm charged around $0.40 per 30 seconds of calling with a flag-fall of around $0.25 that gets tacked onto any outgoing call I make. So a 23 second phone call would cost me $0.65 AUD, or around ($0.55 USD).


Actually, for $30, I get around $120 worth of phone calls. It's a VERY silly system they invented here so that plans are hard to compare. With this plan, they could have said $30 will get you $30 worth of phone calls, and then divided all the prices by a factor of 4. However, they decided on the bull**** method instead.

Welcome to Australia.

I'm going to get a $50/month (around $42 USD) plan soon, but that's with no data. By paying $50/month, I'll get around $300/month worth of calls per month. :rolleyes:



I'm not going to include the details of my Canadian mobile account with FIDO. I only had it for a number of months.
 
Here's mine:

Country: USA
Monthly Fee: $109.99 ($70 + $9.99 for the phones, plus $30 for the iPhone data plan)
Carrier: AT&T
Description of plan details and how it works: Family plan with 2 phones: One iPhone, one regular phone. We share 1000 daytime minutes plus 200 bonus daytime minutes (Total of 1200 shared). No text plan- usually our text costs are less than the minimum $5 plan.
 
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