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You only play for what you use. This rewards anyone who mainly stays on wifi. My bill is roughly ~$35 a month with them while everyone I know has bills of 70-12
by alexharrisnyc 8y ago
You only play for what you use. This rewards anyone who mainly stays on wifi. My bill is roughly ~$35 a month with them while everyone I know has bills of 70-120. If you sign up for 2GB but use 1.1GB you only pay $11.
- jogjayr 8y agoA T-mobile family plan with unlimited data (throttled after 2GB) comes out to ~$25/month. If that didn't exist, I'd look into Google Fi.
- beckler 8y agoSounds like you got a rare deal, everything I'm seeing online says it's $70-$40 per line depending on how many lines you have.
- sharno 8y agoI guess it depends on how many people you add to your family plan. The more people you add the cheaper it gets
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- beckler 8y agoYeah, it's cheaper per person, but the total cost still rises no matter how many people you add.
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- jogjayr 8y agoThat may be. But there's still the T-Mobile Essentials plan that's $30/line for 4 lines - and might be lower for more lines.
- driverdan 8y agoThat one month that you use over 2GB is hell. That alone keeps me away from throttled plans.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> A T-mobile family plan with unlimited data (throttled after 2GB) comes out to ~$25/month. This may be a legacy plan; the only thing they seem to currently offer is $40/line/month for 4 lines ($70/month for one), but throttled at 50GB/month (not clear if this is by line or account), not 2GB/month. It's a little cheaper than Fi list price at the level Bill Protection (essentially, unlimited with 15GB/line throttling threshold) kicks in ($160/4 lines with TMo vs $205 for Fi). But Fi does refund if you use less than 14 GB total, which may reduce the effective price depending on usage pattern.
- pjc50 8y agoHow on earth do people have mobile bills of $120 a month?
- dawnerd 8y agoA good chunk of that is phone payments, not the actual service cost.
- skh 8y agoI own my phone and from the big carriers two phones or more generally costs $80+ a month.
- poink 8y ago$70+/mo major provider "unlimited" plan + $50+/mo flagship phone
- ggggtez 8y agoMonopolies mostly. The US is big enough that there are really only 2, maybe 3 providers. Everyone else is a reseller.
- wil421 8y agoI think those are family plan prices. I pay about $140 unlimited cell data, 15Gigs for tethering, an Apple Watch, and 2 lines of unlimited talk/text.
- iwiririwo 8y agoHow would the carrier know if you use your cellphone for tethering, and separately bill that traffic?
- wil421 8y agoUser Agent sniffing, traffic analysis, port sniffing and new phones might even tell them. The carriers are already doing a lot of load balancing among all the devices attached to their network. It wouldn’t be too hard to detect. Years ago AT&T sent me text right when I connected to my hotspot. I can’t see the tethering data use on AT&Ts dashboard but I can see usage per line.
- desireco42 8y agoI can second this. Our family plan is 60-75 and we are really not trying to save.