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Which of us has the best cellular plan?

I'm on AT&T and have:

450 anytime minutes, unlimited nights/weekends with rollover

1500 texts a month

Unlimited data

$78 per month including taxes. Not as cheap as some plans here but LTE and HSPA+ coverage is pretty good on AT&T these days.
 
Straight Talk on an iPhone 4. $45 unlimited everything, though they say you get throttled at 2GB/month. But so far no issues for me.
 
Verizon Wireless
1400 minutes
Unlimited texting
Unlimited data (yeah, be jealous)

2 smart phones and a regular phone = ~250?? The regular phone helps bring the price down but the 2 smart phones kill it.
 
Cricket has LTE. But not in all areas. But when they do get LTE, they better not charge extra for it. No company should.
 
bonskovsky said:
Cricket has LTE. But not in all areas. But when they do get LTE, they better not charge extra for it. No company should.
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Right. In fact, some operators are incentivizing certain types of customers to migrate to LTE because it has a lower cost per bit.
 
CoMoMacUser said:
Right. In fact, some operators are incentivizing certain types of customers to migrate to LTE because it has a lower cost per bit.
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AT&T does this for their grandfathered unlimited plan customers. They get throttled after 3GB on HSPA or 5GB on LTE.
 
Verizon...
Two iPhone 5, two iPhone 4s, 8gb Share Everything Plan (which comes with unlimited minutes and unlimited txt's) and a 19% employee discount (no i don't work for Verizon) and the total after taxes and all other BS charges....*drum roll please*....... $301.35
 
I think I have the best. Unlimited everything and my employer pays the bill and bought me the iPhone for that matter. ;)

As far as the plan itself its a standard business package. Not sure about the details.
 
cynics said:
I think I have the best. Unlimited everything and my employer pays the bill and bought me the iPhone for that matter. ;)

As far as the plan itself its a standard business package. Not sure about the details.
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And we have a winner...:D
 
Verizon Wireless

Total Plan is:
5 Lines, Unlimited Talk/Text 6GB Share Data. $280 total. ~$230 after 20% discount. Split 5 ways we're paying around $46 each before taxes/fees.

Works out for me because the other 4 people are only using about 700MB of data between all of them and I use the rest.

Then I have a T-Mobile Line
$20 per month for 2000 minutes, unlimited text, truly unlimited data

Planning to switchover fully to T-Mobile once their network is iPhone ready and LTE is in place in here in Charlotte.
 
barkomatic said:
I'm on AT&T and have:

450 anytime minutes, unlimited nights/weekends with rollover

1500 texts a month

Unlimited data

$78 per month including taxes. Not as cheap as some plans here but LTE and HSPA+ coverage is pretty good on AT&T these days.
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That seems really expensive for the usage you get, but guess you're paying extra for the LTE usage?
 
CEmajr said:
Verizon Wireless

Total Plan is:
5 Lines, Unlimited Talk/Text 6GB Share Data. $280 total. ~$230 after 20% discount. Split 5 ways we're paying around $46 each before taxes/fees.

Works out for me because the other 4 people are only using about 700MB of data between all of them and I use the rest.

Then I have a T-Mobile Line
$20 per month for 2000 minutes, unlimited text, truly unlimited data

Planning to switchover fully to T-Mobile once their network is iPhone ready and LTE is in place in here in Charlotte.
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Keep in mind that Verizon is a subsidized plan where T-Mobile isn't, so instead of looking at it as $46 vs $20, it's more like $27 vs $20.
 
Defender2010 said:
Same. giffgaff are great. Never will i pay a company like O2 or Vodafone £35+ a month again (for restricted data)
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could go with 3 ?

least i know when we get 4g in the uk this year i wont be getting charged extra as im on the one plan ... well aparently :rolleyes:
 
bonskovsky said:
Unlimited everything.

$55.

I feel like I'm getting the most out of my money. What about you?
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I'm not price sensitive. It's a must have. So as long as I receive good service I'm fine. It's no difference than buying products from Apple. It's just a fact of life that they charge a lot, so I just ignore it and buy what I want.
 
Verizon:

2 iPhone 5's

We pay $70 for Unlimited Talk & Text and get a 19% work discount, so $56.70.

Then we each pay $40 for smartphone line access and share 4 GB of data.

So, $136.70 before taxes.

Also, I get access to the mobile hotspot function...it's just part of the shared 4 GB of data.
 
bigdavecox90 said:
That seems really expensive for the usage you get, but guess you're paying extra for the LTE usage?
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That's with a 20% discount believe it or not. Anyway, it's all about the data plan--but I'm not paying extra for LTE. For direct access to a major national U.S. network (not an MVNO) its pretty good. Plans outside the U.S. are often much better--but what to do? :)

AT&T has a "soft" cap now on their unlimited data users at 5GB. After that, you can still use data but you are throttled down to 2G speeds. If I were a new customer and bought a 5GB data plan on AT&T--it would be $50 just for my data usage alone. Right now, I'm paying $30 for the "unlimited" data portion of my plan -- so essentially I'm getting an extra 2GB of full speed data that new customers have to pay an extra $20 for.

As for calls, 450 minutes is much more than I need and I've got something like 3,000 rollover anytime minutes saved up. iMessage makes an unlimited texting plan completely unnecessary for me at this point--about 80% of my friends and family have iPhones.

Of course, most MVNO plans are much cheaper--but many have restrictions on their "unlimited" data plans that I don't like. A few users have reported that some specifically don't allow video or music streaming or that if you go over a certain daily limit you get a nasty call or email saying you are an abuser. No thanks.

I'll re-evaluate once T-mobile and Sprint actually fulfill their LTE coverage promises. I have a feeling that pretty soon after they build those out--their own unlimited data plans will evaporate as well.
 
Nermal said:
150 minutes, which I never use.
600 texts, which I never use.
500 MB, which I've had to bump up to 1 GB twice.

~US$29/month. When my contract runs out in November then I'll probably be moving to a different company which offers 2 GB for $12/month, and do voice and text on an as-needed basis.
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12$ for 2GBs?! What carrier?
That's an epic offer, Or am I very inexperienced in that topic :rolleyes:
 
35,00 bulgarian lev which is 23,86 $
I have
2150 minutes
2000 texts
150 mms ( which i never use...)
unlimited 3G data :)
 
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