- Jul 19, 2001
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6700 minutes last month split between 4 phones. Insanity. Only 3150 were peak minutes, so on our 3000 min/mo plan, we only used up 150 out of 3000 rollover that we have standing by, the rest were all N&W and M2M.
My wife and I have been on a family plan with my parents for a few years now. Back when I was in school it made sense, but I decided to re-evaluate the situation today (whether it would be cheaper to stay on the family plan and just pay my dad for our portion every month as we've been doing, or to break off to our own lower plan and have them drop to a lower plan themselves as well).
My mom is the primary culprit, as a Real Estate agent, she uses about 1800 peak minutes a month. I use about 500-700, my wife 700-900, and my dad uses 100-200.
After breaking it down, it still saves us quite a bit of money to stay on one big family plan and just pay my dad every month. If we split and lowered the two family plans down to our respective peak usages, we would end up spending a combined $50 or more every month than we do now, so unless our usage goes way up, were keeping everything as is.
Part of the reason I was curious about splitting off, the Sprint SERO plans are very enticing, especially for data. But considering how many AT&T M2M minutes we use, the savings would go right out the window in our case as each of those minutes would be added to our peak.
My wife and I have been on a family plan with my parents for a few years now. Back when I was in school it made sense, but I decided to re-evaluate the situation today (whether it would be cheaper to stay on the family plan and just pay my dad for our portion every month as we've been doing, or to break off to our own lower plan and have them drop to a lower plan themselves as well).
My mom is the primary culprit, as a Real Estate agent, she uses about 1800 peak minutes a month. I use about 500-700, my wife 700-900, and my dad uses 100-200.
After breaking it down, it still saves us quite a bit of money to stay on one big family plan and just pay my dad every month. If we split and lowered the two family plans down to our respective peak usages, we would end up spending a combined $50 or more every month than we do now, so unless our usage goes way up, were keeping everything as is.
Part of the reason I was curious about splitting off, the Sprint SERO plans are very enticing, especially for data. But considering how many AT&T M2M minutes we use, the savings would go right out the window in our case as each of those minutes would be added to our peak.
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