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What is your TOTAL monthly iPhone bill?

  • <$50

    Votes: 770 40.0%
  • $50-$75

    Votes: 278 14.4%
  • $75-$100

    Votes: 246 12.8%
  • $100-$125

    Votes: 171 8.9%
  • $125-$150

    Votes: 118 6.1%
  • $160-$175

    Votes: 52 2.7%
  • $175-$200

    Votes: 89 4.6%
  • $200-$250

    Votes: 97 5.0%
  • $250-$300

    Votes: 42 2.2%
  • >$300

    Votes: 62 3.2%

  • Total voters
    1,925
A similar subsidized Mobile Share Value Plan costs just the same on AT&T. Do you upgrade your iPhones every 2 years or shorter? If so, just stick to unlimited. After taxes, you'll still end up paying around $600 per month.

What I do is my wife and I upgrade every year also a 3rd line alternates between my step son and our business partner, it doesn't bother him if he has the latest, like this year he went from a 4 to a 5s.
So I use 3 upgrades 1 year, then 3 of the other phones get hand-me-downs, next year I use another 3 upgrades, the other phones get the previous phone. So all of our lines are either 5s's or 5, next upgrade the 5s's go to 6 the people with 5 get the 5s and the 5 gets sold on Craigslist or Gazelle.

We've done this since iPhone 1, prior to that were Palm Trio.
 
2 iPhones, unlimited (unthrottled) data for each line, unlimited MMS/SMS, 1600 anytime minutes, unlimited M2AM, and unlimited nights/weekends starting at 7. Total before taxes is 129.99, after is 145.
 
Past

Att

2 Iphones with 1200 minutes and each line 2.5GB LTE was $130 with city discount of 18% per moth.

Present

Net10

2 Iphones everything unlimited on each with 2.5GB of LTE after that is unlimited 3g which works fine for pandora and spotify.
$48.95 line 1
$43.48 line 2

after taxes.
 
just moved my ATT family plan to mobile value share. 145 for 10gb, 3 lines, unlimited talk/text. i get an 18% discount waiting to see what the final price is, should come about to around 140ish after tax
 
$55 Month

Unlimited, anytime nationwide minutes
Unlimited outgoing and incoming nationwide text messages
2 GBs of LTE data

With Virgin Mobile on a 64GB Unlocked iPhone 5S
 
ZERO per month

Cellphone contracts are a pure rip-off in Canada. I just get in range with an unlocked wi-fi network and I call for free with MagicJack.
 
$130/month for 3 iPhones after 22% corp discount.

AT&T
Unlimited Minutes
Unlimited Texts
10GB Mobile Share
 
Too expensive.
Currently iPhone 5 16GB, on Unlimited Minutes and Texts with 1GB 3G for £38 ($63) a month.
Phone was free though so thats kinda cool. Stupidly lacking in data though, I easily hit 900mb a month and don't have iTunes match using cellular data.

EDIT: On O2 UK
 
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Thanks! I will look into that.

Unless I'm misreading it, it looks like you have 3 phones. If you go with Tmobile You could get unlimited talk+text for all lines, plus 2 lines of unlimited data and 1gb for your "dumb phone" for 150, or 170 if you added insurance (JUMP) to the two lines that have it. Thats a pretty significant savings, especially if you're able to use your old phones. At 60-80$ of savings a month, that's something I would look into. Of course this all dependent on your area and needs, but worth a look nonetheless 🙂

That sounds like a great deal of savings..
 
Is that with some sort of a discount?

No it's just $60 per line. Google Verizon loyalty plan. Lots of people talk about and have it. I have been with them for 14 yrs so that probably helps. I can't use my corp discount with it but it's still better.
 
No it's just $60 per line. Google Verizon loyalty plan. Lots of people talk about and have it. I have been with them for 14 yrs so that probably helps. I can't use my corp discount with it but it's still better.
I guess that's part of their new loyalty plans. I remember those usually being limited in minutes/messages/data, and haven't quite heard that they started doing ones with unlimited minutes and even unlimited messages, but that's good to know.
 
(1) iPhone 5

NET10
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Unlimited Nationwide Calling
Unlimited Nationwide Texting
Unlimited Picture Messaging
Unlimited Data (4G/LTE cap of 2.5GB)
$50
- $5 (Auto-Pay Discount)
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$45 + tax ~ $50
 
Free.

I work for T-Mobile and work in an area that tests mobile devices so I have unlimited data on the phone as well as my Nexus tablet (currently testing a new build).

I average 3GB a month so I don't need the 'unlimited' data but it's paid for so I can't complain.
 
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