Am I getting ripped?

[MickZagger]

I pay Verizon $120 a month for my cell phone bill. That is with a 23% discount through work. I feel like I'm getting gyped.

Who do you go through and what do you pay?

I know T-Mobile has good deals, but are they a good service?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This is not the thread I was looking for.

 

[MickZagger]

This is not the thread I was looking for.

Tuck it in your belt, big guy.

 

[Rhal]

I pay 135 for both mine and my wife's phones through Sprint. Sure seems like your overpaying

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[bodyman5000 and 1]

Is t mobile good there? It is great in vegas and I love it.

 

[BigGameDamian]

I pay Verizon $120 a month for my cell phone bill. That is with a 23% discount through work. I feel like I'm getting gyped.

Who do you go through and what do you pay?

I know T-Mobile has good deals, but are they a good service?

I'm with Verizon and I pay around $80

 

[BigGameDamian]

I thought you where going to tell us you new workout and how to get ripped.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I pay Verizon $120 a month for my cell phone bill. That is with a 23% discount through work. I feel like I'm getting gyped.

Who do you go through and what do you pay?

I know T-Mobile has good deals, but are they a good service?

My company pays everyone's cell bills. We have people on Verizon, AT&T, and TMobile (we had someone on Sprint, but if someone else is paying your bill, why would you stay with Sprint?). Everyone has plenty of minutes and full data. I'd say the bills are $150-170/month depending on overall usage. If you have lots of minutes and good data coverage, your rate seems about right after the 23% discount.

 

[THE HCP]

$145/month.......3 iPhones unlimited talk/text.....share 10G of data..........I do get 17% discount from work. Very happy with the service.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I pay 90 a month on sprint. 11 of that is insurance on the phone though. Unlimited data

 

[THE HCP]

I pay 90 a month on sprint. 11 of that is insurance on the phone though. Unlimited data

All that and no friends to talk to....#shame

 

[The_Lillard_King]

80 a month, ATT

 

[Cryptkeeper]

My girlfriend and I have a 2GB data plan we share together, which costs us about 95$ a month with T-Mobile.

 

[Eastoff]

I bought my Nexus 5 for about 400$ and pay about 60$/mo with TMobile. 2GB speed cap.

 

[blazerboy30]

I bought my Nexus 5 for about 400$ and pay about 60$/mo with TMobile. 2GB speed cap.

Samsies.

Except I have ATT. Same price per month, no contract.

 

[porkchopexpress]

How do you two like your N5s? I'm loving mine. I had the N4 last year and only upgraded because my mother in law needed a new phone, so I gave her my N4.

Anyways, on Tmobile, we are under $130 w/ all taxes for unlimited talk/text for 2 smart phones w/ 2.5GB each and 1 flip phone. Since it's Tmobile there is no handset cost built into that price, so that would probably add another $20/each. I haven't used it yet, but we also get free 2G data, free texting and pretty cheap voice rates when traveling abroad. The last 2 times we've gone to Europe we've either bought a phone or a sim, so this will make traveling a lot easier. 2G is slow, but it's free and fast enough to check email and do some light browsing, which is all I'd need.

 

[THE HCP]

How do you two like your N5s? I'm loving mine. I had the N4 last year and only upgraded because my mother in law needed a new phone, so I gave her my N4.

Anyways, on Tmobile, we are under $130 w/ all taxes for unlimited talk/text for 2 smart phones w/ 2.5GB each and 1 flip phone. Since it's Tmobile there is no handset cost built into that price, so that would probably add another $20/each. I haven't used it yet, but we also get free 2G data, free texting and pretty cheap voice rates when traveling abroad. The last 2 times we've gone to Europe we've either bought a phone or a sim, so this will make traveling a lot easier. 2G is slow, but it's free and fast enough to check email and do some light browsing, which is all I'd need.

I'm surprised somebody as down as yourself actually owns an Android phone........ You wouldn't be caught on a PC would you?

 

[porkchopexpress]

I'm surprised somebody as down as yourself actually owns an Android phone........ You wouldn't be caught on a PC would you?

I'm not a fan of iOS. I like being able to customize my phone. If I don't like something, I change it. The Nexus phones are perfect because they are as close to pure Android as you can get, w/o all the bloatware you get from Samsung/Verizon/etc. There are parts of the iPhone I really like, but for me (not everyone), vanilla Android > iOS. That being said, I just found out yesterday that I'm getting a 5s for work so I'll get a chance to use both every day. Apparently we are dropping blackberry support (not surprising), so I'm swapping out a nearly 4 year old blackberry for a brand new iPhone. Not a bad trade, ha.

But yeah, I'd never buy a PC. I love Mac, just not iOS.

 

[THE HCP]

I'm not a fan of iOS. I like being able to customize my phone. If I don't like something, I change it. The Nexus phones are perfect because they are as close to pure Android as you can get, w/o all the bloatware you get from Samsung/Verizon/etc. There are parts of the iPhone I really like, but for me (not everyone), vanilla Android > iOS. That being said, I just found out yesterday that I'm getting a 5s for work so I'll get a chance to use both every day. Apparently we are dropping blackberry support (not surprising), so I'm swapping out a nearly 4 year old blackberry for a brand new iPhone. Not a bad trade, ha.

But yeah, I'd never buy a PC. I love Mac, just not iOS.

You make no sense son! #MacTilIDieFams

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I have tried 4 carriers and ONLY V does not drop calls. The others were terrible. So I just pay my V bill and let it go at that. BTW, I get a military discount.

 

[THE HCP]

....V?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Summary for most of the US.

Verizon is the best, but is expensive.

T-mobile is decent all around. Best for international travel since they now give you free data roaming internationally which is insane. It will probably be bought out in the near future.

AT&T kind of blows and is expensive. Sometimes the data is fast but its generally teh suck.

Sprint is usually cheaper. coverage and data kind of sucks.

 

[donkiez]

I pay $160 for 3 phones with sprint, unlimited everything including data. This includes my company discount of 20%. Funny my iphone on sprint always got great coverage in my house, now that I have a Galaxy S4 I have to stand by the window to keep it from getting choppy, my fiance has the same issue with her S4. When it was just me I paid around $110.

 

[Denny Crane]

Verizon has the best radio spectrum AFAIK. Their signals are better at going through walls and has a longer range where walls don't interfere. More consistent connections.

T mobile just bought a block of Verizon's spectrum to implement super fast LTE in at least 1/2 the biggest cities.

 

[Mediocre Man]

My family pays $220 for 5 smart phones with 3 gigs of data per phone each month.

 

[Strenuus]

I pay $10 a month for the cheapest phone possible. #studentlife

 

[illmatic99]

TMobile.

$75 for 2 phones: share 1000mins talk time, 2gb data, unlimited messaging. Pretty sick deal, and from a black friday deal and some loyalty program I was able to come out with a free Galaxy s3 (after MIR) a few years ago

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Luckily my work pays for my phone. With Google Voice I can have my personal number ring on my work phone and know whether it is a personal call or work call. Basically have two numbers on my phone.

Before work started paying for my phone I was paying 120 bucks for two lines. Can't remember the limits since this was about 3 years ago but phone plans are pricey.

If one of the prepaid services like Virgin Mobile or Straight Talk gets good service over there then I would consider it. You can get a plan for 45 dollars with basically unlimited everything.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

On a side note; having problems with my new iphone 5s (battery won't recharge, read is a big problem). I go into apple store and for the first time received terrible customer support. They acted as there is no on going problem, I think he tried to purposely talk over my head about the problem and after about 2 hours there he ended up giving me a new phone with an attitude like I should thank them for being so lucky. Meanwhile, they took my 2 month old phone with all my information on it and said all that info is gone (pictures, texts, voice mail, apps).

I'm going to write the experience off on the particular person who was helping me, but the customer service for apple used to be one of the aspects I liked about the iphone.

OK back to phone contracts . . .

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

On a side note; having problems with my new iphone 5s (battery won't recharge, read is a big problem). I go into apple store and for the first time received terrible customer support. They acted as there is no on going problem, I think he tried to purposely talk over my head about the problem and after about 2 hours there he ended up giving me a new phone with an attitude like I should thank them for being so lucky. Meanwhile, they took my 2 month old phone with all my information on it and said all that info is gone (pictures, texts, voice mail, apps).

I'm going to write the experience off on the particular person who was helping me, but the customer service for apple used to be one of the aspects I liked about the iphone.

OK back to phone contracts . . .

I've yet to have a bad experience at the Apple Store. But... I have heard similar complaints about the iPhone 5s battery..... which..... makes me nervous, as work just bought me a new 5s today. I guess we'll see - at least it ain't on my dime.