Would you switch to a wireless plan with $30 data and a high voice rate?

[sygyzy]

Once in a while I'll come across a Hot Deal over at Fatwallet related to cheap phone calls. Three years ago the deals were for calling cards, used to call India, South America, etc. Nowadays it's software that lets you make calls over WiFi or 3G, and not cut into your minutes.

I realized that I only speak on my phone about 80 minutes a month. I don't call or have family overseas and even if I did, I wouldn't use a cell phone. Even on the cheapest plan, I have something like 500 minutes a month. Or 300. It doesn't matter.

I can't be alone here. What if phone companies offered a plan that goes something like: $30 unlimited data + 25 cents a minute phone calls?

Don't get caught up in the details like telling me unlimited data doesn't exist. You can tweak it however you want. $20 for 2GB a month plus 50 cents a minute. I think I'd still end up on top.

Would you subscribe?

 

[Anubis]

prob i never talk on the phone

 

[zerocool84]

I'm one of the old timers that still talks on the phone a lot. The main reason I'm on Sprint. Of course people don't want to pay for minutes they don't use but that's how phone companies make money.

 

[Red Storm]

I average around ~180 voice minutes and just over 2.5GB of data per month. I would love a cheaper voice option.

 

[boomhower]

I would look into very hard if there was a decent VoIP solution. I have talking on the phone but between me and my wife we are pushing 700 anytime minutes a month.

 

[SunnyD]

Yes.

 

[pm]

I'd sign up. In fact, I did this when I was travelling in the UK last summer for several months. There was one O2 prepaid plan for making calls but 'expensive' pay-per-use data and another one with expensive calls but unlimited data. I chose data and then just used Skype for everything.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Depends on if the $0.25/min applies to ALL minutes or only "peak" minutes (weekdays during the day). I use 100-200 voice minutes per month total, but only about half of them are subtracted from my pool of minutes since I get free calling to cell phones and after 7pm.

If it applied to all calls and there were no free nights or weekends, it'd end up costing about the same, if not more, even though I don't make many calls.

 

[Deeko]

Yea, T-Mobile keeps adding more and more minutes to my plan, I think for the same price I used to get 600 minutes, then it was 1000, now 1500...but I still only use maybe 20 anytime minutes and 50 nights/weekends a month...and frankly, I could easily cut down on that if I needed to.

 

[Dulanic]

GrooveIP already handles all my phone calls through google voice and costs no minutes...

 

[phoenix79]

I've got 1000 family minutes that we never use for $70 and unlimited data on my line for $20 through t-mobile

 

[Raduque]

I would absolutely LOVE a $30-40 data and text plan with minutes ala carte, say 20 or 25 cents a minute, because I use maybe 20 minutes a month. Right now I'm paying about $75/mo for 500 minutes, unlimited text and 2gb data

Of course, I do save a lot of minutes because I mainly call other T-Mobile customers.