Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

How much is your mobile phone bill?

I suppose I should mention that I pay $10 a month - prepaid - and I seldom use that much. I have a balance of $40 right now :eek:. Guess I don't talk enough.

I wish other carriers (aside from Virgin) would work out that there are lots of people who don't need 500 + mins of talk time p/m... A small talk, reasonable data package would be perfect for me.
 
$100 a year. One line, 1000 minutes per year. I don't talk, text or do anything on my phone much. It sits on my night stand with a dead battery 75% of the time.
 
I don't like or have a cell but my wifey pays $45 a month for unlimited everything thru metro pcs. It's actualy a good service. She never has dropped calls. Not too great of a phone though, but she has an iPod T to keep her happy. :). **** contracts, she says.
 
Around €80

€80, 2 lines. This includes both my iPhone unlimited internet data and 10 daily minutes (billed in 6 seconds blocks) to every operator at any hour of day and my wife's BB's unlimited data plan and 10 daily minutes to everyone anytime. It's around 40 euros each (more like 45 and 35).

We used to text a lot, now we use IM to text each other, email to text friends and if it is urgent, we just call (unheard of, right?), since normal texting here is an armed robbery. I use skype over 3G to make international calls and I've always been able to use my macbook tethered to my iPhone's internet (unlike unlucky people in the USA) either via USB or BT.
 
Around 15€. 2€ goes for monthly fee, 7€ for unlimited data and 4€ for 150 SMSs per month. Then depending on month, 1-5€ for calls so I never make it over 20€. iPhone 3GS from Sonera. Paid the phone when I got it (460€) so I don't have to pay for it in my phone bill anymore. I barely talk and don't text that much.
 
£15 a month, free handset (nokia 5800), 200 (ish) mins and 500 texts. I took the contract out 18 months ago when i wasn't massively into texting but i regret it now as i really could do with data allowances and more texts. The problem is i have to pay the whole contract myself and i simply couldn't afford to pay 30-40 a month. Im still at school, you see. Im waiting to see if the htc 4 is coming out over here, if it does i might just pay the contract off.
 
£15 a month, a pitiful 75 minutes (I don't ring too much so it's ok), 2000 3-to-3 minutes, 3600 texts, unlimited data, free phone (sony ericsson C510). Good price if you ask me.
 
A bit over $100 after taxes. I have 900 minutes + unlimited internet + texting and that costs way too much for one phone. Verizon carrier with Droid Eris smartphone.
 
steve2112 said:
$60/month. 500 minutes+unlimited nights/weekends, unlimited text and data.

Sometimes I think I must be crazy to pay that much.
Click to expand...
This is especially true when you figure out the annual cost.

In your case, $720 per year. With those spending $129 per month, that's $1,548. Funny how quickly it all adds up.
 
sushi said:
This is especially true when you figure out the annual cost.

In your case, $720 per year. With those spending $129 per month, that's $1,548. Funny how quickly it all adds up.
Click to expand...

The only good thing is that I no longer have a land line, so I'm not spending that on top of the cost of the land line. At least that's how I rationalize it.
 
$57.50 per month on Rogers for my iPhone

500MB Data (any kind of social networking doesn't count towards it)
200 minutes
Unlimited evenings and weekends starting at 5pm
Unlimited SMS
Unlimited MMS
Call display
Visual voicemail
Name display.
 
Around $131 a month

750 min Family plan, 2 lines + Tmobile @ Home VIOP
unlimited SMS/mms + data
And of course unlimited voice on the @Home line (which we're cancelling in August)
 
Last year my mobile phone cost $0.75 per month.

It's a GoPhone.

I put in $100... used $9.00 worth of calls over the year (@ $0.25/minute). At the end of the year my unused $91 rolled over with my resubscription of $100 for the next year.

So now I have $191 to not use this year.
 
My wife and I have a 700 minute plan split between two smartphones with 1000 free texts per phone. We dropped data over a year ago and lowered our minutes so the present monthly bill works out to be around $65 a month with our discounts.

Wow. Reading this thread hammers home the fact that the communications companies are just raking in the cash. Now every family member has to have a phone and with all the bells and whistles the costs add up real quick. It's amazing how we justify it all when in truth it's simply convenience. I remember things being just fine when there were only two landline phones in my house growing up and the bill was about $14.99 a month for local and limited long distance. And in those days you actually memorized people's phone numbers. :p
 
bamaworks said:
Mine:

$147.00(Family plan with android and palm smartphones and 1400 minutes, unlimited text) This includes a 22% corporate discount.
Click to expand...

How many of those minutes do you REALLY use? If you're anything like my family, you text all the time and spend very little time actually talking on the phone. Perhaps your job calls for it, but unless you do lots of calling outside of your network (other than family and Verizon-Verizon), then I'd definitely suggest cutting down your minutes to something like 750.
 
TheOnlyJon said:
How many of those minutes do you REALLY use? If you're anything like my family, you text all the time and spend very little time actually talking on the phone. Perhaps your job calls for it, but unless you do lots of calling outside of your network (other than family and Verizon-Verizon), then I'd definitely suggest cutting down your minutes to something like 750.
Click to expand...

I just upped it from $700, since we kept going over 150-200 minutes a month, which ended up being the same cost as the 1400 plan. My wife is a chatterbox.
 
$40 a month for unlimited talk, text and web through metro pcs. I just wish the phones where a little better.
 
Roughly $85 for a 3GS with unlimited data, text, 900 anytime mins and company discount. It's about to go up since my gf wants to switch over from T-Mob and get an iPhone 4.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back