Poll: how much is your total combined monthly cell phone bill

[pm]

Just out of curiousity, how much are people paying per month for their cell phones. It's all anonymous obviously. If you are the head of the household, put the total amount of your bill. If you are on a family plan, but only pay your part of that plan, then just list what you pay. So there's no attempt at fairness or cost per person. Mostly I'm just curious what people pay.

Edit: We pay total of $105-ish. It's $90 on AT&T, for my wife and I. We share 450 minutes ($40), 200 texts each ($5x2), 2G data for me ($25), 200MB data for my wife ($15) + taxes, minus a corporate discount. Then I pay $15 prepaid T-Mobile for unlimited texting for our daughter. The monthly bill is usually $105 for all three of us. I could add our daughter into our family plan, but we are grandfathered on our plan and adding would have changed some of the plan and required a 2 year extension and would have cost the same. Plus it's nice for trips sometimes that she's on a different carrier.

 

[AstroManLuca]

$110 a month on Sprint, thanks to my sister in law who is on our family plan and has a corporate discount and sends us a check for her portion every month.

She has announced that she wants to be off our plan when her contract expires in September, so that number will go up. Have to decide what to do by then. Just two lines on Sprint normally would be $150 a month, Verizon and AT&T are about the same, and T-Mobile is cheaper but they have poor coverage in several areas. Not sure what we'll do.

 

[NetGuySC]

$55/month (1 Droid X)
PagePlus (KittyWireless.com)
Unlimited Talk and Text and 2 gigs of data on Verizons network

 

[Ravynmagi]

$32 for just me using T-Mobile 100 minute, 5GB, unlimited text plan, including sales tax.

 

[GTaudiophile]

T-Mobile
2 Cell lines: 1000 Minutes, Unlimited Text, 2x Unlimited/2GB data
1 VOIP line (TMO legacy product)

Total with taxes & fees: $95/month

 

[sgrinavi]

250 / month for 5 lines on VZW - 3 smart, 2 dumb

 

[abaez]

$30.

 

[phantom404]

$84 on Verizon with 450 Talk, Unlimited Text and Data and corp discount

 

[AznAnarchy99]

$55 for my part on a Verizon 5 person family plan. Galaxy Nexus with unlimited data, text, and 2500 minutes and insurance. I think the total bill comes out to be around $250-$300.

 

[Billb2]

Zero, iphone from work.

 

[blackangst1]

T-Mobile
2 Cell lines: 1000 Minutes, Unlimited Text, 2x Unlimited/2GB data
1 VOIP line (TMO legacy product)

Total with taxes & fees: $95/month

Same..but with no legacy VOIP

 

[nickbits]

100 +/-10

 

[LtMikePowelll]

110$ on 4 line T-mobile family plan (750 min and unlimited text)

 

[gorb]

186.96/mo, three lines. unlimited data, unlimited text, 1500 shared anytime minutes, unlimited mobile to mobile, unlimited nights & weekends 7pm-7am

 

[joshhedge]

£10 a month. 1GB internet, 3000 Texts, 300 Minutes.

 

[vi edit]

$125'ish for two smartphones on Verizon and 400 minutes. I've got unlimited data. My wife is on the new 2g plan.

Heavily considering going prepaid, even though it realistically won't save a significant amount of money. Page Plus is interesting since we've got good Verizon coverage in the area and I can technically move my iP4 over there.

But heavily considering a BYOD option on ST or VM for $41-$30 a month depending on plans and length of pre-pay.

 

[titan131]

£10 a month. 1GB internet, 3000 Texts, 300 Minutes.

You're from the UK I take it? same as me. Well I pay £10 a month for unlimited internet, unlimited texts, 250 minutes. It's with giffgaff and internet really is unlimited because I tether my phone to my netbook and use up huge amounts of data sometimes streaming video. Never had a problem.

 

[joshhedge]

I honestly have no idea how you guys in the states pay so much money for phone contracts, absolutely ludicrous.

You're from the UK I take it? same as me. Well I pay £10 a month for unlimited internet, unlimited texts, 250 minutes. It's with giffgaff and internet really is unlimited because I tether my phone to my netbook and use up huge amounts of data sometimes streaming video. Never had a problem.

Yeh I am, I'm with three. I get 6mb/s data speeds, it's great!

Is Giffgaff good for signal and data?

 

[bassoprofundo]

I'm an AT&T employee so I get 50% off my core plan and primary data plan, but for 2100 shared minutes, unlimited text, 1 smartphone with unlimited data, 1 smartphone with 2gb of data, and 2 feature phones on a family talk plan, I pay $150-ish plus fees.

 

[vi edit]

I honestly have no idea how you guys in the states pay so much money for phone contracts, absolutely ludicrous.

Phone subsidies + pure surface area issue of putting towers in the middle of corn fields for 1000+ miles across the middle of the US. I know farmers that were getting over $12,000 a year for tying up an acre of land to have a tower stuck on it.

 

[gorb]

We pay so much because we have no other options

 

[vi edit]

We pay so much because we have no other options

We have options. But shiney new phone for $100-$200 every two years looks better than paying $600 out of pocket or heaven forbid holding onto the old one and going to a BYOD pre-pay.

 

[cronos]

Currently two active lines in the family:
H2O minute plan: $10/month (Dell Streak)
PagePlus The 12: $12/month (Motorola Droid Pro)

With taxes and allowance for overage I budgeted no more than a total of $30/month total for the two lines. This setup has been going on for a little over a month and I didn't have to pay overage at all for the first month (which means only $22 total).

We obviously use very little minutes and text (maybe 30 minutes/15 text per person per month) and probably about 98% of our data usage (which what we're using our smartphones mostly for) are through wi-fi, which is how we managed to maintain it this low for years.

Our average usage last year (with a slightly different setup) are about the same, a tad higher on the text (~30 text/month) but we have since discovered whatsapp and other messaging apps for text communication and cut the sms usage to half.

Just to be thorough, we do have a home phone line through Nettalk VoIP, costs us $30 for a year ($2.5 per month). This line is used quite extensively. Average uses is around 500 minutes per month.

 

[titan131]

Is Giffgaff good for signal and data?

Giffgaff piggyback off of O2, so yeah the signal is good. Whether it's better than 3 in your area I don't know. I'm not sure what the upload/download speeds are, but it's good enough for watching 240p Youtube video's, which is the most intensive thing I do. I know the US has 4g, while the UK only have 3g, maybe that's partly why it is so much more expensive? I don't know..

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Phone subsidies + pure surface area issue of putting towers in the middle of corn fields for 1000+ miles across the middle of the US. I know farmers that were getting over $12,000 a year for tying up an acre of land to have a tower stuck on it.

We're still getting screwed. They're trying to get rid of subsidies while still charging us the same monthlies.