$30 on AT&T Prepaid with multi-line discount. 8GB of data and unlimited talk and text which is plenty enough for me. And free roaming when I visit Canada. Data rolls over too if you don't use it all.
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American cellular service is a poor value in general. It has been so for decades.
I am paying US$16.72 (currently €14.96 or £13.42) monthly to Mint Mobile for their unlimited voice/unlimited text/3GB cellular data prepaid service. Cellular data does not rollover. This MVNO connects to T-Mobile USA's cellular towers. I buy SIM-free, factory unlocked iPhones directly from Apple.
While the cellular data allotment is pretty paltry, it's quite adequate for my specific needs. They offer more expensive plans for more data. Mint Mobile has temporarily made cellular data unlimited due to COVID-19 but I connect to WiFi at home.
When I travel abroad I pick up a short-term eSIM cellular data plan with TruSIM. This eliminates the time wasted on hunting down mobile shops and fiddling with physical SIM chips. They have an acceptable EU plan so if I'm traveling in multiple countries crossing borders is seamless.
It's not necessarily great, but it's not as bad as Canada. It's also a little tough to compare directly to places like Europe as four carriers cover the entire country (significantly more people, square miles, and sparse/remote rural areas), so some people are probably subsidizing service for others).
The postpaid vs. prepaid value divide is also a bit ridiculous on some carriers—give up maybe a features and save a lot. However, there's a lot of people that finance phones through their carrier and most prepaid services don't support that, so they also end up paying more for service, too.
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$86.79 for my iphone and apple watch. Taxes and fees included. $80.12 after I pay off my iphone in a couple months.
6GB data, unlimited talk & text.
6GB data, unlimited talk & text.
T-Mobile 2 lines Unlimited Talk & Text with 50 GB each line (after is throttle) $100 including taxes and fees.
I had the unlimited talk/global text and 6 GB plan with Virgin Canada for $50 since 2012 or so, little while back got 13 GB for $60, which they then changed to $65 plus tax. Ported my number to VoiP.ms and now I use Airalo esim - about $37 CAD for 10 GB, or $74 for 20 GB. I buy a US esim when I go (or went, given the current circumstances) there, and local sim cards everywhere else I travel (travelled 
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It's quite different here in the Philippines.
For Php 1799 ~ $35
15GB of data
Unlimited All-Net Text (All 3 carriers)
Unlimited Calls (same carrier required)
100 Mins. All-Net Calls (All 3 carriers)
For Php 1799 ~ $35
15GB of data
Unlimited All-Net Text (All 3 carriers)
Unlimited Calls (same carrier required)
100 Mins. All-Net Calls (All 3 carriers)
Fasincating—aside from the large bucket of data, a lot of other aspects feel like how the carriers in the US were about ten years ago (free mobile-to-mobile calling on the same carrier, free texting across all carriers...might need an add-on, limited calls to landlines or other carriers). I seem to remember that a lot of people would get Verizon or Cingular because "all their friends had it."
When the data plans started being capped, the calling and texting went fully unlimited, but at that point, everyone seemed to care about data. There's some MVNOs that still offer limited calling minutes/texts/data at really low prices, but the main carriers have moved on.
$145 for two iPhones (paid off) on unlimited data plans with Verizon. Not sure which tier but it was the top one when they first introduced the unlimited option.
That's actually a pretty expensive plan for most Filipinos and likely includes full or partial phone subsidy. I expect majority over there are on prepaid.
If you don't need the entire data allocation available in a short period, you could get something like PHP 500 (~USD 10) load or less and just sign up for promos deductible from the load balance that better suit your usage.
When my parents recently went on vacation, I had them on the following promo and just renewed every week.
PHP 120 (~USD 2.50), 7 day validity
3GB Data (rolls over if plan renewed before expiration)
Unlimited Calls to same network
Unlimited Texts to all networks
Bonus: 1GB daily for select apps/sites (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc)
Majority of their data usage is Facebook (for calls and messaging with friends) so they barely even touched the 3GB weekly allocation. Off-network calls are charged at $0.15/min but they rarely used it since most of their calls were done through Facebook. They were there for a little over 3 weeks and $15 each covered their entire stay (with ~$4 balance remaining at the end).
Hadn't heard of them - will have to take a look. Last time I was in the market, most of the really cheap carriers in the US used T-Mobile's network, which in my area is not good.
Currently on Cricket Wireless (AT&T network): $35/mo, unlimited text and talk, 5GB data.
Verizon started it is a budget brand back in 2018 with one plan—$40 for unlimited LTE data (no access to the 3G network) and hotspot capped at 5Mbps. They've since lifted the on-device speed cap "temporarily" and the Party Pay feature allows you to join a group where each person pays $25, but no one specifically owns the group (so you can come and go as you please).
I tested it on a second line back in December and it wasn't bad in most places in my area (some 1Mbps moments, plenty of 50+Mbps moments, too), but it seems to be a YMMV due to Verizon's much more aggressive deprioritization for MVNOs and prepaid, some support flakiness, and limited device support (most recent iPhones are fine). It's slowly evolving and kind of reminds me of the early days of Aio/Cricket, where people have either had awesome experiences or terrible and no in-between.
They've also mostly duplicated it and are selling service as Yahoo Mobile, probably because someone at Verizon thought that they bought Yahoo and should use its brand for something
