Cellular carrier - who do you use?
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@NerdyDad said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
Sprint
We have the unlimited plan and 1500 minutes with 4 phones for about $250/month. They like to try to stick it to you in the maintenance and purchasing of the phone. Don't really travel that much outside of the US, but I've had problems in New Mexico a couple of years ago with coverage.
What do you mean stick it to you with maintenance and purchasing of the phone?
Most US cell companies have picked up the, what I call, European plan. i.e. the phone service is completely separate from the phone. The service is what the service costs - you want a phone, you pay for it outright, or through the kind graces of the carrier, they let you make payments to them instead of your CC company at little or no interest. Or you buy into one of the more modern plans where you don't really buy a phone, instead you rent one, and you turn it in every 1-2 years and start paying the new rental fee.
This really is the fairest solution - you pay the lowest - yet regular - fee for the service.. then you decide how much you want to spend on a phone. If you want to run a phone for 4 years, then you can save a crap load of money! In the old days, you were punished by not getting a new phone as soon as your contract allowed.. you always paid the high subsidized price, even if you were getting no value from it.
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@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@scottalanmiller said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).
Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?
Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).
My one phone was like $180/mo and I got "loyalty" penalties every two years as well.
Holy crap! what kind of options did you have on that one phone? Unlimited data back when data was an arm and a leg?
Probably.
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@Dashrender That's the problem we're starting to face now. Our last mid-election cycle contract is up and they like to tack on extra charges when you're out of contract. Plus, you can't tell me that a phone truly costs $600-1000 to make + profit. There's got to be profit built in for both the manufacturer and the carrier. I'm sure the manufacturer and the carrier likes to negotiate. Otherwise, the carrier isn't going to carry your phone for free.
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We currently have Directv aka AT&TV and we're considering going from Sprint to AT&T to bundle and possibly get some savings. Does anybody else do this? Has anybody else seen the savings in it?
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@NerdyDad said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender That's the problem we're starting to face now. Our last mid-election cycle contract is up and they like to tack on extra charges when you're out of contract. Plus, you can't tell me that a phone truly costs $600-1000 to make + profit. There's got to be profit built in for both the manufacturer and the carrier. I'm sure the manufacturer and the carrier likes to negotiate. Otherwise, the carrier isn't going to carry your phone for free.
Why would you think that? You can buy those phones direct from Amazon for the exactly (within a few dollars) the same price as you do in the cellular store. Heck - look at Apple and the iPhones. The iPhone is the same cost at AT&T as it is in the Apple store.
The difference is that Apple might get to keep more of the profits, but the consumer still pays the same price.
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@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
Something else to consider.
TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone
Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.
All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol
They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..
now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.
But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.
Actually, the fine print on that page does say that. It also says that top abusers can be throttled to 3g speeds when tethering if the carrier so chooses.
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@JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
Something else to consider.
TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone
Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.
All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol
They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..
now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.
But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.
Actually, the fine print on that page does say that. It also says that top abusers can be throttled to 3g speeds when tethering if the carrier so chooses.
LOl it says what? I said a lot of things in the quoted part
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@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
Something else to consider.
TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone
Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.
All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol
They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..
now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.
But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.
Actually, the fine print on that page does say that. It also says that top abusers can be throttled to 3g speeds when tethering if the carrier so chooses.
LOl it says what? I said a lot of things in the quoted part
Yes.
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@JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
Something else to consider.
TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone
Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.
All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol
They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..
now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.
But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.
Actually, the fine print on that page does say that. It also says that top abusers can be throttled to 3g speeds when tethering if the carrier so chooses.
LOl it says what? I said a lot of things in the quoted part
Yes.
Purple.
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@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).
Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?
Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).
Well no.. Because you would only be getting 5GB of data per phone which is $45 a month when you use autopay. Also $45 a month is the final price so no taxes and fees on top of that.
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@IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).
Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?
Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).
Well no.. Because you would only be getting 5GB of data per phone which is $45 a month when you use autopay. Also $45 a month is the final price so no taxes and fees on top of that.
I think I could up the plan to get 30 GB total, 10 GB a phone for around $60/phone, but I don't need that. Over the three phones we typically use around 5 GB. None of us stream music - that could probably kill the rest of the data if we did.
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We have Verzion (have to here) We have 5 phones and 2 jetpacks. We have 25 GB of data. We pay around $425/month. Unlimited calling/text
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@Minion-Queen said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
We have Verzion (have to here) We have 5 phones and 2 jetpacks. We have 25 GB of data. We pay around $425/month. Unlimited calling/text
$60.70 per device, 3.x GB per device, OK that's a bit high - but it is VZW, so considering.. it's not as bad as it could be.
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@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Minion-Queen said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
We have Verzion (have to here) We have 5 phones and 2 jetpacks. We have 25 GB of data. We pay around $425/month. Unlimited calling/text
$60.70 per device, 3.x GB per device, OK that's a bit high - but it is VZW, so considering.. it's not as bad as it could be.
Yeah it is a little high but we have constant reliable service here in our area. I would love to move to Tmobile but as much as I travel I need to have great coverage. Of course I also have a Tmobile phone for when I leave the states.
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@Minion-Queen said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
@Minion-Queen said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:
We have Verzion (have to here) We have 5 phones and 2 jetpacks. We have 25 GB of data. We pay around $425/month. Unlimited calling/text
$60.70 per device, 3.x GB per device, OK that's a bit high - but it is VZW, so considering.. it's not as bad as it could be.
Yeah it is a little high but we have constant reliable service here in our area. I would love to move to Tmobile but as much as I travel I need to have great coverage. Of course I also have a Tmobile phone for when I leave the states.
So how does that work with T-Mobile.. do you just activate it for the few weeks your out of the country? or do you have to maintain an active contract?
of course switching phone numbers defeats the whole point that Scott's always on about. Well, that's assuming he answers the phone
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I have to maintain an active account (but we always need a backup phone so that is fine). As far as maintaining a number because they are all Iphones people can still reach me at my main number it just rings through to the Tmobile phone. The nice part of an ITunes account. I actually have 3 IPhones. One for GS one for NTG (my main number) and one for traveling.
