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Cell phones... I hate them!

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Project86

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So I'm still on my old plan with ATT Wireless (refused to switch to Cingular when they bought it) because I have a good plan, and it is cheap enough.... but I'm starting to notice that I never use anywhere close to all my minutes... by far. I have looked, and it seems there is no cheaper plans at all. to get any plan for myself and my wife, we have to pay at least $60. Our current plan is only $50. But I wish I could find a cheaper plan... maybe 1/2 the price for 1/3 or even 1/4 the minutes... is that too much to ask?

Does anybody use prepaid service? How does that work out? It seems like it might be cool, but the ones I've seen expire way too quick, so any benefit that may exist goes out the window when your minutes expire.

What it comes down to is this: I love how DSL, and long distance for my home phone have gone way down in price over the years. I hate how cable, and cell phones have stayed the same or gone up...
 
You know if you did switch to Cingular back then you'd get a lot more for cheap right now.

Heck, for $60 a month, I have 500 anytime minutes, nation-wide, free night and weekends, internet, and 100 free text messaging. Sure it may be more than what you need (I don't even use the internet or text messaging), but the point is you'd get what you wanted by now.
 
I think they figured out it's better for them to offer more minutes for the same price than to offer cheaper plans with fewer minutes. That's intended to push people who don't want to pay $40 or $50 a month to switch to prepaid plans, where they can hold the expiration over your head.

My first cell phone plan was $19.99 for 60 minutes and I wish I had kept it. I switched to a family plan figuring I would switch back if it turned out not to be a good deal for us, but I can't get my old plan back.
 
Originally posted by: EGGO
You know if you did switch to Cingular back then you'd get a lot more for cheap right now.

Heck, for $60 a month, I have 500 anytime minutes, nation-wide, free night and weekends, internet, and 100 free text messaging. Sure it may be more than what you need (I don't even use the internet or text messaging), but the point is you'd get what you wanted by now.
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I pretty much get all of that already, for $10 less. There is no benefit for me switching, other than getting 2 free crappy phones.
 
First off, watch THIS, it will make you feel better (NSFW, language) 🙂

Personally, I hate cell phones because most of them will not work when you're out in the boonies. Even when they do, it's usually staticy and I get socked with roaming charges 🙁

 
i got a verizon shared plan with my dad because i thought it'd end up cheaper...WRONG. our first month's bill was like $180 and each bill after was around $90 (for a $69.99 plan) and we didn't even use half the minutes. they rape you on the surcharges and taxes.
 
Originally posted by: Project86
Originally posted by: EGGO
You know if you did switch to Cingular back then you'd get a lot more for cheap right now.

Heck, for $60 a month, I have 500 anytime minutes, nation-wide, free night and weekends, internet, and 100 free text messaging. Sure it may be more than what you need (I don't even use the internet or text messaging), but the point is you'd get what you wanted by now.
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I pretty much get all of that already, for $10 less. There is no benefit for me switching, other than getting 2 free crappy phones.
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Yeah. One thing I do like is the free phone every 2 years. I liked my old phone, but with new technology with cell phones, I just received a new phone that has excellent reception in the places that my old one used to die out on (and I lived in the pine barrens).
 
Talk to T-Mobile. Because they gear for a younger market (with pockets that aren't quite so deep) they have some good family plans for an okay price.
 
The main thing I hate about cell phones is that the actual phone costs an incredible amount of money, unless you sign up for a plan or something.

If you don't use anywhere near the minutes you pay for then go to prepaid. Even large providers like T-mobile offer prepaid.
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
The main thing I hate about cell phones is that the actual phone costs an incredible amount of money, unless you sign up for a plan or something.

If you don't use anywhere near the minutes you pay for then go to prepaid. Even large providers like T-mobile offer prepaid.
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My husband actually made money off the last phone he bought, what with the rebates. But that was a pretty middle-to-low quality phone, not the serious stuff.
 
I'm sing TracFone and have been happy with it. But a barely use - just have it for "continencies" 😛 So I just buy the smallest time amount I can every 3 months - I think it's about $40. I haven't come close to using all the minutes before they expire. They also send youalot of promotions to double your minutes or expiration time.
 
Yeah. My friend uses verizon prepayed. He buys usully 150 minutes for a couple weeks and then buys them as he needs them.
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
The main thing I hate about cell phones is that the actual phone costs an incredible amount of money, unless you sign up for a plan or something.

If you don't use anywhere near the minutes you pay for then go to prepaid. Even large providers like T-mobile offer prepaid.
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Gee, my phone thru Cingular was 20 bucks. I don't consider that a lot of money.
 
Most people just don't k now where to get cell phones.

I got my V600 for free back in August 2004. I got a K750i August 2005 for $100. Most of you are complainign because it cost you $100 for a phone like a RaZr that should've been free....
 
Originally posted by: EGGO
You know if you did switch to Cingular back then you'd get a lot more for cheap right now.

Heck, for $60 a month, I have 500 anytime minutes, nation-wide, free night and weekends, internet, and 100 free text messaging. Sure it may be more than what you need (I don't even use the internet or text messaging), but the point is you'd get what you wanted by now.
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Damn, I pay $45 for 1000 anytime plus unlimited night and weekends and 500 text/photo/video messages. Guess I got a good deal.
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: EGGO
You know if you did switch to Cingular back then you'd get a lot more for cheap right now.

Heck, for $60 a month, I have 500 anytime minutes, nation-wide, free night and weekends, internet, and 100 free text messaging. Sure it may be more than what you need (I don't even use the internet or text messaging), but the point is you'd get what you wanted by now.
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Damn, I pay $45 for 1000 anytime plus unlimited night and weekends and 500 text/photo/video messages. Guess I got a good deal.
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Nice. I wonder if sharing this phone plan with my brother has anything to do with it.
 
I see that a lot of you have millions of minutes/video mail/etc for around $50/month. What I would like is maybe $20/month for 200 minutes. But they don't make anything like that.

PS both of our phones are from Ebay (unlocked) so I guess we could try out a prepaid service if we wanted. I use a Moto MPX-200 smartphone, which I find better than any razor or Itunes enabled phone.
 
Partially it is just price fixing.

Actual service hardly cost the carriers much at all so there seems to be some collusion for the so called minimum priced plan per month. Use 10 minutes or 10,000 minutes, it doesn't cost the carriers much.
 
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