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$118.xx/month, 5 lines unlimited talk/text/data (2.5gb LTE) with T-Mo for cell phones. Finally settled out after adding the last line two months ago, first month was $148, second month was $66 and this month is my regular bill.

Technically it's cheaper because one of the lines is for my BIL, who pays $30/month toward the bill.

My home phone otoh, runs me about $4/month for 4 lines with two phone numbers with home rolled VOIP.
 
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$18-23 a month using Ting

If you can live with Sprint service Ting and Republic Wireless can be cheap ways to go.
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I average around $34 a month for two lines on Ting.

They're supposed to be adding T-Mobile service next month, so we'll see how that goes. Sprint's coverage is fine around here, though data is slow. I usually stick with WiFi, so it works well for our needs.
 
Home - Ooma VOIP $3.50/mo
Mobile - Cricket Wireless for $55/mo which is basically AT&T pre-paid.

$55/mo total for 10GB - no extra mystery taxes/regulatory crap fees.
Unlimited talk and text (with shortcode support awesome for RedBox/UPS)
AT&T towers
LTE

Plus they offered my wife and I $100 each to switch from a T-Mobile MVNO and $25 referral per person. Their support leaves a lot to be desired but fortunately I rarely have to ever contact them.
 
$45/month for unlimited data (aka 3GB, plenty for me) and talk/text through Straight Talk. I'm pretty sure I'm on the Verizon network with my current phone.
 
$70 for two phones on Cricket Wireless including all taxes and fees. Unlimited Talk, text 1GB of data on capped 8mb LTE, 128kb unlimited after that. AT&T network.

Referrals available if you would like to save us both $25, PM me.
 
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My cell plan with Fido is $65/mo + tax, which works out to be $73.45 IIRC. That gets me:
-Unlimited Local Calling
-Unlimited North America wide long distance
-Unlimited North America wide texting
-Call display
-Voice mail service with in box for three messages
-2GB data

It's not a terrible deal for up here.
 
clamum said:
$45/month for unlimited data (aka 3GB, plenty for me) and talk/text through Straight Talk. I'm pretty sure I'm on the Verizon network with my current phone.
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Same here, except that I have a T-Mobile compatible Straight Talk SIM card in my phone.

It comes out to about $46.50 after taxes, or roughly half of what Verizon used to charge me.
 
$50/month straighttalk. Why any one would be paying the big cell companies a dime is hard to believe when there are companies like ting and ST
 
$10 every 3 months with Pageplus.
Don't use the phone much, very poor signal at home, rarely text, no need for data

This is perfect for me. $40 a year vs $560 (verizon's lowest plan before I switched several years ago)
 
This thread is intriguing to me since wife and I have had the same phone plan for 10 years now. We got "new" basic phones about 5 years ago. Maybe 6. I forget.

We pay $42/mo w/ taxes and fees for two voicelines with 600 minutes + unlimited nights weekends, etc

At home, we have TWC VOIP as part of a bundle, and they'll only cut our bill $5-10/mo if we drop it and pickup ooma or something like that. I don't bother. My wife uses the home phone a lot to call out of state relatives (daily).

Not sure we could do much cheaper. But when I go into Sprint (and ugh Sprint), they freak when they see how old my phone is, and that I dont have texting enabled on it. The looks of horror I get are comical. Who cares?
 
slightlyhuman said:
$50/month straighttalk. Why any one would be paying the big cell companies a dime is hard to believe when there are companies like ting and ST
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Sadly, I think that I lot of people don't have the cash on hand to pay $700 for an off-contract Smartphone up front.

Because of this, they end up paying an extra $1,200 for the phone over the 2 year life of their $100 a month cell phone contract. When you look at it like that, that "$99" Smartphone sale at AT&T or Verizon isn't quite a bargain.
 
TheAdvocate said:
Not sure we could do much cheaper. But when I go into Sprint (and ugh Sprint), they freak when they see how old my phone is, and that I dont have texting enabled on it. The looks of horror I get are comical. Who cares?
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At some point in the next few years, they'll shut down the CDMA network that your old phone probably still runs on and force you to upgrade to an LTE network phone.

Verizon is planning on doing the same thing to their old CDMA network as well.
 
With ATT:

15GB shared data, unlimited talk/text, with 3 smartphones and 1 tablet ~150/month after taxes and fees and $20 discount through work.

Plus currently have two phones on Next, at 55/month.
 
ultimatebob said:
At some point in the next few years, they'll shut down the CDMA network that your old phone probably still runs on and force you to upgrade to an LTE network phone.

Verizon is planning on doing the same thing to their old CDMA network as well.
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Then I guess I will no longer have a cell phone.

Those people paying $150+ mo for these things are lunatics. I don't even think that's an opinion.

OTOH, there is so much free wifi out there that it seems silly to even have a plan of any type. If you can just add some type of internet VOIP calling to a wifi device, theres no need for all that money or "plans". I rarely spend anytime, even in suburbia, at a place that doesnt have free wifi.
 
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$180/month for 3 smartphones on Verizon with unlimited talk and text, with 6GB of data shared. Sprint and AT&T coverage suck here, especially once you leave the city.
 
ghost recon88 said:
$180/month for 3 smartphones on Verizon with unlimited talk and text, with 6GB of data shared. Sprint and AT&T coverage suck here, especially once you leave the city.
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I think you could save at min. $30/m if you switch to Straight Talk with your current phones. Might even be better deals out there.
 
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