Cell phones are a scam!

[Twista]

$0. they canceled mine and sent it to collections. My job sucks

 

[TwiceOver]

How's your ass?

Alltel
2 lines
900 minutes
13 circle numbers
$75/mo. (74.xx/mo reality)

 

[RadiclDreamer]

About $110 for 2 phones unlimited minutes

 

[ppdes]

15$ every 3 months with Virgin Mobile. Normally the minimum is 20, but they lower it if you hook up your credit card.

 

[TheSlamma]

Sprint,

$34.99 for 600 anytime, 1000 night and weekend free LD

IamDavid = Typical American who doesn't know how to make the competition work for you.

 

[Parasitic]

Cellphone fees and taxes are such a scam. I'm getting charged for E911 fees on my Sprint EVDO card even though I can't call 911 from it.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Sprint,

$34.99 for 600 anytime, 1000 night and weekend free LD

IamDavid = Typical American who doesn't know how to make the competition work for you.

That's true. I am too lazy to switch carriers. I currently live in a small town in the middle of no where. Soon will be moving to Dallas/FTW where I will have more options. Looks like Sprint will be the way to go. Can't wait.

 

[moshquerade]

AT&T

$8.33/month

 

[jaqie]

For local and long distance? including all fees and taxes?

 

[Scarpozzi]

I get a 19% discount which covers taxes and fees, etc... So my bill is $39 on Verizon...but I get $30 back from work for a cellphone allowance. I pay $9-10 a month.

 

[Wuffsunie]

I go Prepaid all the way.

My phone was $110 after taxes.
Top-ups are $20, $50, or $100, with the former 2 good for 180 days, the latter good for 360. So far I've put on $50 and haven't topped up since.

I also have a phone for when I'm visiting the states.
$10 for the phone, top-up was $20 and is good for 90 days.

I don't live on my phones, I don't text, and I cannot understand those who are obsessed with doing both.

 

[Soundmanred]

Originally posted by: Wuffsunie


I don't live on my phones, I don't text, and I cannot understand those who are obsessed with doing both.

It's called having a family and friends. Not such a bad thing really.

 

[CTrain]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Sprint
SERO Plan
500 minutes
Free roaming incoming and outgoing
Unlimited data
Unlimited texting
7pm nights & weekends
$30 per month

Thats mine and I got my Centro for $50.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Used to be on T-Mobile,
1 line
1000 minutes
Unlimited Text
Unlimited Data
Unlimited mobile-to-mobile
$9.99/month
4 dropped calls per day on average. (Less than 2 miles from their US Corporate HQ and in their friggin' US HQ building too.)

If I hadn't been on the employee plan I'd have kicked their crappy service to the curb long ago. I did not recommend T-Mobile when I worked for them and I don't now. The only two providers I've had good luck with are Verizon and Alltel. T-Mobile's network is shit.

ZV

 

[secretanchitman]

Sprint
SERO Plan
500 minutes
Free roaming incoming and outgoing
Unlimited data
Unlimited texting
6PM (not 7PM like everyone elses!) nights & weekends - good thing to be with sprint since like the 90s!!
$30 per month

 

[0roo0roo]

ext messaging is a more expensive way to transfer data than receiving information from the Hubble Space Telescope, according to research from vendor Vyke Communications.

The typical cost for a standard 160 character text message is approximately 12 pence and every character sent in a text message equates to 1 byte of data.

When translating this into a per megabyte cost, this works out as approximately £750 per megabyte.

Comparatively, the US space agency NASA pays about £61.50 per megabyte to receive data from the Hubble Space Telescope, located 600km from Earth.

This amount includes all personnel, operational, data transmission and data processing costs for the Hubble program and equates to UK mobile users paying 12.3 times more byte for byte than NASA pays to capture and process images of outer space.http://www.computing.co.uk/com...xting-costs-sky-vendor

 

[George P Burdell]

Sprint SERO
500 Minutes
Unlimited N/W from 7pm
Unlimited Data
Unlimited Text
Unlimited Mobile-to-mobile
Unlimited to any three non-Sprint numbers
$30.00

 

[IGBT]

..is amazing how so many middle/low income people have fallen for the cell phone gadget fad. For many of em it's become a behavioral characteristic to slap a cell phone to the side of their head when driving or just walking down the street. What a bunch.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: BassBomb
10$ per month CDN

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: Reel

Originally posted by: ranmaniac

Originally posted by: IsLNdbOi

Originally posted by: newnameman

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Sprint
SERO Plan
500 minutes
Free roaming incoming and outgoing
Unlimited data
Unlimited texting
7pm nights & weekends
$30 per month

+1

+2

+3

+4 (but I have a 23% corporate discount on top so it is about $28 after taxes)

+5

 

[BurnItDwn]

I have ATT, after all the taxes/fees I pay just under $60 per month.
I don't have a home phone so my cell phone is the only phone bill I've got.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Reel

Originally posted by: ranmaniac

Originally posted by: IsLNdbOi

Originally posted by: newnameman

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Sprint
SERO Plan
500 minutes
Free roaming incoming and outgoing
Unlimited data
Unlimited texting
7pm nights & weekends
$30 per month

+1

+2

+3

+4 (but I have a 23% corporate discount on top so it is about $28 after taxes)

+5

Oh man were we factoring discounts? Cause I have a 23% discount too =)

 

[abaez]

Originally posted by: 43st
T-mobile pre-paid gold plan, with the $100 (1000 minute card) good for one year, $5 booster renews it for another year. Probably pay $30-40 a year when it's all said and done.

 

[StageLeft]

They certainly can suck up money. Our two phone family plan runs about $85/month but I recently changed to a workphone, so the missus is on a low-minute plan for about $50 with taxes and all that. We text very little and avoid surfing the net and all that crap. It's more just a convenience than anything we rely on for communication. I don't get how many people can blissfully pay $100-200/month+ for their phone, it's silly.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Used to be on T-Mobile,
1 line
1000 minutes
Unlimited Text
Unlimited Data
Unlimited mobile-to-mobile
$9.99/month
4 dropped calls per day on average. (Less than 2 miles from their US Corporate HQ and in their friggin' US HQ building too.)

If I hadn't been on the employee plan I'd have kicked their crappy service to the curb long ago. I did not recommend T-Mobile when I worked for them and I don't now. The only two providers I've had good luck with are Verizon and Alltel. T-Mobile's network is shit.

ZV

T-mobile was ok for me in birmingham, AL, but in Rochester, NY it's complete garbage. There are countless bad areas where there is just no signal at all. Really pitiful. Verizon has been flawless since I changed. T-mobile is generally the cheapest of the big dogs, but now we know why.