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How much do YOU pay for your personal cell phone plan?

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Free Weekends
Free Evenings (after 6pm)
Free lunchtime calling (12-1pm)
50 anytime minutes aside from this.

$30+ tax CANADIAN
that's about $23 USD.

Telus Mobility rocks
 
Verizon America's Choice (National Plan):
400 peak minutes for $40;
Unlimited N+W;
No charge for domestic long distance (I don't even have long distance on my home phone);
1000 Mobile to Mobile (since my sister and father also use Verizon, this usually conserves about 100 peak minutes per month, leaving my typical peak usage somewhere between 200 and 300).

My $40 plan costs a little less than $45 on the bottom line.

I know I could get more peak minutes on a $40 plan from someone else, but my usage wouldn't change, and I never go over my allowance as it is. Competitors' local and national plans for $30-35 offer too few peak minutes or lack free long distance, so I know $40 is my magic number.

I wouldn't change from Verizon unless I was going to save money. I won't dump my home phone to save money either, because my cell phone number is my private number. I don't give that out to anyone and everyone, because when I'm out, I'm probably busy. If you're my friend, you can have my cell phone number. Otherwise, you can call me at home. (If you're kind enough to leave a message when I'm not home, I'll be a good sport and call you back. 🙂 )
 
Verizonwireless....35.00 for 350 anytime and unlimited nights/weekends.
going down to 33.99 for 400 and unlimited due to companies deal with verizonwireless.
 
T-mobile National Rate Plan

600 Anytime
Unlimited Nights
Unlimited Weekends
Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile
Unlimited Text Messages

$49.95
 
300 Anytime
Unlimited Nights and weekends starting at 8pm
Wireless web
Ringers and more
50 text messages

$29.99/month
 
1000 anytime, unlimited nights weekends, unlimited mobile-mobile, nights start at 7, 3 lines (family plan), $110 a month

sister uses about 500 of the anytime and last month logged 2000 night/weekend minutes lol
last month i logged about 200 anytime and 200 nights/weekends
mom logged 50/100

we're with Sprint
 
$39.99/month for mine. 550 anytime minutes, unlimited N&W
$29.99/month for wife. 200 anytime minutes, unlimited N&W

If the AT&T asshats would create a national family plan, i'd be all over it. They have one but it's for their crap GSM system so I have to keep these plans instead.
 
I'd be interested to see the ACTUAL BILL cost if you made calls within the plan. Nobody sends in a check for $29.95 a month...it's always more.

What is it after taxes, surcharges, fees, etc?
 
1000 Anytime
Unlimited Night and weekend
50 txt messages
the usual roaming, long distance package.

~$21 a month after taxes. How you may ask? Shop gave me $225 to sign up, and $100 from a bootleg mail in rebate the shop did for me. $39.99 plan + tax = roughly $45 a month.
$45 x 12 = $540 - 325 = $215 + $35 activation = ~$21
 
Originally posted by: brtspears2
1000 Anytime
Unlimited Night and weekend
50 txt messages
the usual roaming, long distance package.

~$21 a month after taxes. How you may ask? Shop gave me $225 to sign up, and $100 from a bootleg mail in rebate the shop did for me. $39.99 plan + tax = roughly $45 a month.
$45 x 12 = $540 - 325 = $215 + $35 activation = ~$21
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How much was the phone though?
 
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: brtspears2
1000 Anytime
Unlimited Night and weekend
50 txt messages
the usual roaming, long distance package.

~$21 a month after taxes. How you may ask? Shop gave me $225 to sign up, and $100 from a bootleg mail in rebate the shop did for me. $39.99 plan + tax = roughly $45 a month.
$45 x 12 = $540 - 325 = $215 + $35 activation = ~$21
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How much was the phone though?
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Bring your own phone, free sim card from shop. I like my trusty unlocked Nokia 8390 over all new phones with color screens and more junk I wouldn't use anyways. Else you will give up the $225 cash for almost all phones, except the newest of new.
 
US Cellular

Local plan (I don't travel very often so it's all I need)

1100 anytime minutes
Unlimited nights and weekends (nights dont start until 9pm🙁)
Free long distance

39.99/month

We have two of the above, so altogether we get 2200 anytime minutes and two phones for 80 bucks a month.
It was a better deal with more total minutes to get two of these plans instead of one of the family/shared plans.
 
Originally posted by: brtspears2


Bring your own phone, free sim card from shop. I like my trusty unlocked Nokia 8390 over all new phones with color screens and more junk I wouldn't use anyways. Else you will give up the $225 cash for almost all phones, except the newest of new.
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No kidding. I'm looking at finally getting a cell phone. It seem like the phones that all the providers offer have so much crap on them. I just want a phone to make calls on. I don't care about things like playing games or listening to MP3's.

 
400 shared anytime
Unlimited N&W
Unlimited mobile to mobile between the two phones we have on the plan (mine and my parents)

$60/month for it. I pay half and they pay half.

Verizon, btw.
 
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