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How much is your cell phone bill?

How much does your cell phone cost you per month?

  • $50 or less

    Votes: 11 36.7%
  • $51 to $100

    Votes: 8 26.7%
  • $101 to $150

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • $151 to $200

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • More than $200

    Votes: 6 20.0%

  • Total voters
    30
If I only used it for making calls & taking the occasional picture, neither would I. I use my Droid more for internet and cross-country navigation than anything else.

Later this month I'll get a Moto X for $299 off contract with unlimited everything for $40/month. You were saying..
 
55 bucks a month, though I think it goes down to 50 bucks a month with it eventually going down to 45 after a few more months of consecutive payments. I have Boost Mobile.
 
Later this month I'll get a Moto X for $299 off contract with unlimited everything for $40/month. You were saying..
At 110 markets you will soon discover that "unlimited" has many limitations. I'm sure it'll be a great phone...when you have service.

Verizon has about 500 markets, the first high-speed cell network to cross the country. I'm happy paying more today for superior service today. I travel a lot and that's important. If you stay fairly local, that post-merger Sprint deal may work for you.
 
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At 110 markets you will soon discover that "unlimited" has many limitations. Verizon has about 500. Sprint is offering deals to grow their new post-merger LTE network. Good for you. Make the most of it. I'm happy paying more today for superior service today.

If you're happy with a monthly bill 5.5 times higher, more power to you. You are aware that Sprint roams on Verizon's network I'm sure...
 
If you're happy with a monthly bill 5.5 times higher, more power to you.
One of the things I'm happy about is how the bill is under my control. When I first got my Droid, my bill was $70 pr/mo. One device, very low usage.

Life changes. I added a second line and a second Droid so that I could talk to my sons in Ohio. I bought insurance for both devices and Lookout for both devices.

Then I got a new job which requires me to travel a lot. I upped the data usage to account for the GPS navigator, portable internet hotspot (which is how I'm making this post from my PC), Netflix, and similar.

I make my bill in a day, so it's well worth it.
 
One of the things I'm happy about is how the bill is under my control. When I first got my Droid, my bill was $70 pr/mo. One device, very low usage.

Life changes. I added a second line and a second Droid so that I could talk to my sons in Ohio. I bought insurance for both devices and Lookout for both devices.

Then I got a new job which requires me to travel a lot. I upped the data usage to account for the GPS navigator, portable internet hotspot (which is how I'm making this post from my PC), Netflix, and similar.

I make my bill in a day, so it's well worth it.

Everyone's bills are under their control regardless of what one earns...
 
I am trying to figure out how this is a poll?
 
Everyone's bills are under their control regardless of what one earns...
Those are detached points. My control over the bill, and cost/benefit.

I can tap a button and make absolutely any change to my service, right now. I don't have to call and talk to anyone. I don't have to change the contract. If I want to let my son in Ohio download a few games, I can quickly unlock that feature for his phone while we talk, he can get his game, and I can re-lock that feature. If we're having a slow week because of weather and I want to play some games or watch movies on those extra days off, I can up my data instantly. When work picks up, I can reduce my data back. That's the kind of control I'm talking about.

Cost/benefit: The cheaper plan you're looking at does not do what I need it to do.
 
At 110 markets you will soon discover that "unlimited" has many limitations. I'm sure it'll be a great phone...when you have service.

Verizon has about 500 markets, the first high-speed cell network to cross the country. I'm happy paying more today for superior service today. I travel a lot and that's important. If you stay fairly local, that post-merger Sprint deal may work for you.

Same. I tried Sprint once. Had to lay the phone down on my middle couch cushion to get 1 bar. If I picked it up to put it at my ear, the 1 bar went away.

I have absolutely no issue paying what I pay, because I know that no matter where I go, I will have a good, strong signal. I could count on 1 hand the times in the last 7 years that I've had Verizon and not had a signal, and every single time was in the middle of the Okefenokee Swamp.

Cheap cell service is worthless if you never have a good signal.
 
Those are detached points. My control over the bill, and cost/benefit.

I can tap a button and make absolutely any change to my service, right now. I don't have to call and talk to anyone. I don't have to change the contract. If I want to let my son in Ohio download a few games, I can quickly unlock that feature for his phone while we talk, he can get his game, and I can re-lock that feature. If we're having a slow week because of weather and I want to play some games or watch movies on those extra days off, I can up my data instantly. When work picks up, I can reduce my data back. That's the kind of control I'm talking about.

Cost/benefit: The cheaper plan you're looking at does not do what I need it to do.

I don't have the need to control the service of anyone else, and what makes you think I can't change my plan as necessary on the fly?
 
I don't have the need to control the service of anyone else, and what makes you think I can't change my plan as necessary on the fly?

Virgin Mobile's basic “Beyond Talk” plan—$35/month for up to 300 minutes of voice (which I never come anywhere near using), and “unlimited” texts and data (though supposedly the data will be “throttled” to a lower speed if I go over 2 gigabytes in a month (I've never come anywhere close to reaching this limit). An additional $5/month for insurance on my phone itself brings the total to $40. My wife also has the same phone, on the same plan, so for the two of us, it comes to $80/month. Each of us has an independent account, not linked in any way to the other.
 
I don't have the need to control the service of anyone else...
Well, I do, because those "anyone else" are my minor children.

....and what makes you think I can't change my plan as necessary on the fly?
I never said you couldn't. I said I was happy that I could.

Here's the post:
One of the things I'm happy about is how the bill is under my control. When I first got my Droid, my bill was $70 pr/mo. One device, very low usage.

Life changes. I added a second line and a second Droid so that I could talk to my sons in Ohio. I bought insurance for both devices and Lookout for both devices.

Then I got a new job which requires me to travel a lot. I upped the data usage to account for the GPS navigator, portable internet hotspot (which is how I'm making this post from my PC), Netflix, and similar.

I make my bill in a day, so it's well worth it.
Where in that post did I say anything about what you could or could not do?
 
I was just thinking how interesting it is that my phone bill is over $200 (has 3 smart phone lines with all the extras) but my insurance is less than $25 a month.

I'm still all for just going with UHC and just making medical insurance obsolete or at least unnecessary for the majority of people.
 
Actually that is true.

Both will be about the same. And I have a everything unlimited data plan.
 
Do not own one - so its ZERO per month. My yearly rate is the same.
 
Ours is about $135/month for 3 voice lines sharing 700 minutes/month and unlimited data on 2 phones.
 
Obama said ACA insurance would cost the equivalent of your cell phone bill.

“Through the marketplaces,” Obama said, “you can get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill or your cable bill, and that’s a good deal.”

So, how much does your cell phone cost you per month?

I use a pay as you go phone. I spend about $200 a year, so that's about $15 a month.
 
I was just thinking how interesting it is that my phone bill is over $200 (has 3 smart phone lines with all the extras) but my insurance is less than $25 a month.

I'm still all for just going with UHC and just making medical insurance obsolete or at least unnecessary for the majority of people.

I used to have insurance on our phones. I used to have a Droid, and Hubs had an HTC Incredible 2. The girls both had basic slider texting phones. Our insurance was $6.99 per month, per line, and a $100 deductible. Then all 4 of us moved to iPhones, and the insurance jumped to $10 a month, per line, and a $169 deductible. That deductible is per line. I can buy an iPhone 4 all day long for between $150 and $200, so I figured it was pointless to pay $40 a month premium, then $169 deductible, when I could actually buy the phone for about the same as the deductible.

Also, if the price wasn't bad enough, before we made the move to iPhones, my daughter had an HTC Rhyme. She had it in her pocket and got pushed in the pool, so we paid our deductible and got her another phone. Now keep in mind, this Rhyme was brand new. 1 month old. The replacement they sent me was refurbished. It didn't work. I sent it back and they sent me another one. It, too, was refurbished. It didn't work, either. I sent it back and called Verizon to complain, and they gave me an early upgrade and gave us an iPhone. We sent the 2nd phone back to Asurion and they actually gave me a hard time about giving me back my deductible.
 
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