I canceled my sattelite TV and also my landline phone to pay for cell phone and data. It's all good.
According to my co-worker's iPhone, Siri answered your question thusly: "You need not be concerned about those dark days."
Are you talking about a dumbphone with no data plan and unlimited text plan? Originally you said:
Which I took to mean someone was actually paying for an unlimited texting plan on a smartphone with an underused data plan. If it's a dumbphone then yeah GV won't work. My SO and I use GV from the PC for a lot of our texts, so maybe your mother could use that for the majority of her texts instead? There are limitations with that, of course, such as not receiving texts on your phone anywhere anytime, and that's when we fall back on our prepaid T-mobile plan and their per-text fees.
It's AT&T. Period. They use AT&T towers.
Though StraightTalk also uses T-Mo towers. I believe you have a choice when you buy the sim cards of which sim to get (T-Mo compat or AT&T compat). You have to be careful of which sim card you get.
Cricket uses their own towers (1900MHz PCS CDMA, you can flash Sprint/VZW phones for the most part).
MetroPCS use their own towers.
Boost, Virgin Mobile, Ting, Republic Wireless, and the new Radio Shack service all use Sprint towers.
PagePlus uses Verizon towers.
RedPocket, H2O use AT&T towers.
Walmart Family Mobile, Simple Mobile and whatever that new one is use T-Mo towers.
C-Spire (formerly Cellular South) has their own towers.
There's a handful of others, but those are the big ones.
Have fun trolling!
what i dont understand is the families i see at school function all have expensive droids or iphones. i dont get how they can justify spending 200+ bucks a month for a damn phone bill.
if you told our parents 20 years ago that people would happily spend 200 bucks on a monthly phone bill while locked into a 2 year contract, they would have thought you were bat shit crazy.
what i dont understand is the families i see at school function all have expensive droids or iphones. i dont get how they can justify spending 200+ bucks a month for a damn phone bill.
if you told our parents 20 years ago that people would happily spend 200 bucks on a monthly phone bill while locked into a 2 year contract, they would have thought you were bat shit crazy.
One major difference is the cell phone. 20 years ago, you had your landline and that was it. Car/cell phones were expensive and not exactly all that mobile. But I agree. Were I to have kids, there is no way in hell they would each have their own $200+ phone with an $80+/mo plan. At best, they'd get a cheapo phone to share with the bare minimum plan to cover them when they're out with friends and need to get in touch with me. They'd have to buy anything more than that for themselves.
It's funny to me how everyone is saying stuff like "hell no!" in this thread but meanwhile, in the real world, we're moving towards every kid having a phone and worried helicopter parents wanting to be in touch with their kids all the time.One major difference is the cell phone. 20 years ago, you had your landline and that was it. Car/cell phones were expensive and not exactly all that mobile. But I agree. Were I to have kids, there is no way in hell they would each have their own $200+ phone with an $80+/mo plan. At best, they'd get a cheapo phone to share with the bare minimum plan to cover them when they're out with friends and need to get in touch with me. They'd have to buy anything more than that for themselves.
I use a big carrier because i don't want to lose my number. I've had it for 7 years. I'm forgetful. If dont top up a prepaid account on time, ill lose my number. That wont do at all.
That's a pretty interesting article! I think it's one of those things you have to look at in perspective. I have buddies who spend $8 a pack on cigarettes, but tell me that smartphones are "too expensive"
Personally, I would rather have my smartphone with me at all times than have a lot of other niceties of life. Plus, my budget has changed over the years. We dropped cable (Netflix streaming now, $8/mo), we dropped our landlines (cellphones only now), we use MOG for music ($10/mo for 15 million songs to the computers and iPhones, which plug into the home stereo and car stereos), etc. etc.
I still like going out, but I'm getting a little jaded. I have an awesome home theater that cost under a grand to build (LED projector, 5.1 surround-sound, WDTV Live Streaming box) for movies and TV shows, whereas going to a movie is expensive...an hour round trip in traffic (gas money), $10.50 per adult for a mid-week evening showing, plus snacks which are a zillion dollars...one adult ticket more than covers Netflix for the entire month!
Plus my local grocery store sells strawberries in the wintertime for an unreasonable yet reasonable price of $6 or so for a small container - just as an example - any food I want is locally available for an affordable cost. So really the only thing pulling me to going out is for the experience of going out, but since I work 70+ hours a week and have a family, it's usually more fun & less expensive to stay home!
Although, the last time I ditched my smartphone, I had enough leftover to lease a car
If they have verizons family shareEverything plan, its 40 dollars for every additional smart phone, 30 for each additional regular phone and like 10 for an iPad
So if the parents both have smart phones any way and the plan for say 4 GB's at 110, it goes from 110$ a month to 150$ a month adding their son or daughter to it with their smartphone.
Unlimited voice and text
Also, it depends on how much you use something. Smart phone isn't an option for me. I use it for work, for so many things it just isn't an option
It would be nice if we had more choices to lower our bills but lots of them have been listed here. $45 on that StraightTalk seems reasonable.
Just switched from Verizon to Page Plus and gave up hundreds of dollars in loyalty and renewal bonuses to do so, but I couldn't be happier. My monthly bill is cut roughly in half for the same network. And now we have included a lot more data and messaging.
I doubt I'll ever sign up for one of those two year handcuffs again.
It's funny to me how everyone is saying stuff like "hell no!" in this thread but meanwhile, in the real world, we're moving towards every kid having a phone and worried helicopter parents wanting to be in touch with their kids all the time.
I have Pageplus pay as you go and am saving hundreds/year. I seldom use my cell phone, an LG LG-VX4500, which I used with Verizon with a $30 monthly fee. I got to keep using my LG phone, keep using the Verizon network (same coverage), and am getting by on $30/year! That's a saving of 90%. I have to buy at least $10 worth of minutes (which at the $10 rate is 100 minutes) every 120 days to keep my account active.What data plan do you have with PagePlus? I was able to cut my mom's bill in half but neither involved data. I can't imagine going from VZW data to PP data and still be able to cut it in half.
What data plan do you have with PagePlus? I was able to cut my mom's bill in half but neither involved data. I can't imagine going from VZW data to PP data and still be able to cut it in half.