Right - that is what DH was paying before we added my line.My $50 plan becomes nearly $58 after all the fees are added on so $70 all inclusive is not too bad. But I will rarely exceed 1GB and maybe never 2GB so saving $12 a month is good for me. And even if I do go over, it just means, the internet slows down, it doesn't stop working or rack up extra charges.
I switched to Ting a few months back. It is rare that I go over 1 gig of data a month.
My bill has dropped from $50 a month to about $25 a month. If I do use an extra gig or two it might go to $40 a month max. I have been very satisfied with the service and performance of Ting.
My $50 plan becomes nearly $58 after all the fees are added on so $70 all inclusive is not too bad. But I will rarely exceed 1GB and maybe never 2GB so saving $12 a month is good for me. And even if I do go over, it just means, the internet slows down, it doesn't stop working or rack up extra charges.
Right - that is what DH was paying before we added my line.
Now two lines unlimited offer is $120, but we are paying around $96 for our $80 plan once you include taxes and fees. We certainly don't need the unlimited high speed data feature. We have 6G each including tethering, and unlimited talk and text covering Mexico, Canada and US, wifi calling, and cheap calling, free text and data when we are overseas.
So I guess we're saving $12 a month each!
We use T-mobile pre-paid, ends up costing us less than $100/yr as our time rolls over with a small top up once per year.
Naturally we have no data, but with so much free wifi around, I don't miss it. We have a super nice GPS with a screen twice the size of a phone, for the car. But as I understand it, even if we used gps on the phone, it would not use data. Haven't bothered to learn how.
So what's everyone else doing with their phones that uses way more data than we seem to?
Hmmmm - T-mobile just announced that for existing customers, for a limited time, two lines for $100 including all taxes and fees. If that includes kickbacks, it would be cheaper than our current plan of $95-97 for two lines including taxes and fees. https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/tmobile-one-ups-verizon.htmDon't forget KickBack. T-Mobile gives you a $10 credit for each line that uses less than 2GB of data.
What's not clear to me is if BingeOn goes against the 2GB of data usage. This is another great feature of T-Mobile. Video consumes most of your data and for the popular sites, it doesn't account against your data cap. This is true even if you have one of their old plans (like I do).
With KickBack, you're only saving $2/month, assuming you stay under 2GB.
For families, T-Mobile is about the best value you can find. We're still on T-Mobile Simple Choice and pay $85 for the plan and $10 for taxes, $95 total. Normally this plan would cost $100, but we get a 15% discount. For this, we get 4GB per line and most of the other benefits, with the free overseas data being most useful. This is for a family of four with two teenagers who have used almost 5GB of data last month. Normally this plan would be 2.5GB, but T-Mobile offered promotions over time which increased our data limit.
And occasionally they offer promotions, such as high-speed data in Europe over the summer, which we were able to use for 4 weeks last year. That was a *very* nice bonus.
I've looked at transferring to the $160/month plan, but even if we get a 15% discount it comes to $136/month. Count in two $20/credits and that brings it down to $116. That's still $21/month more than what we have now. Not worth the upgrade.
Another plus with the T-Mobile One plan is that it supports high-speed data in Canada and Mexico. We usually go to Canada a couple of times a year and the data connection is always slow (way worse than in Asia/Europe). This could be one advantage to the T-Mobile One plan, especially if it only costs a few dollars more per month.
Hmmmm - T-mobile just announced that for existing customers, for a limited time, two lines for $100 including all taxes and fees. If that includes kickbacks, it would be cheaper than our current plan of $95-97 for two lines including taxes and fees. https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/tmobile-one-ups-verizon.htm
So we have to figure out how kickbacks apply. We use less than 1G a month typically, our 20GB data stash is full for each of us. Our current plan gives each of us 6G per month.
So could this new offer get us down to $80 a month?
It's less than we were paying for Verizon, and we have seamless coverage internationally which is really important to us. I really don't want to have to deal with other phones overseas.$95-$97/month for 2 lines is expensive.
If you are using less than 1 GB per month, why are you paying so much for your plans??
Yesterday, I bought a Tracfone SIM kit at Target. Put the CDMA micro SIM into my Verizon pre-paid Motorola E (2nd Generation) and have service on Verizon network. On Tracfone, 1GB is $10. Then just buy minutes and texts.
I used to have T-mobile plan with 100 minutes/100 texts/5 GB data for $30/month. I think it is still available from Walmart.
It's less than we were paying for Verizon, and we have seamless coverage internationally which is really important to us. I really don't want to have to deal with other phones overseas.
We would use more data if we really needed it. We just don't use much data at home in the US.
Those cheaper T-mobile plans don't offer the international coverage. You have to have the T-mobile Simple Choice plan or One plan for that. The T-mobile pre-paid plans definitely do not support it.If you want T-mobile, why are you not on the cheaper $30/month plan available at Walmart or Tmobile.com?
https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/other-prepaid-plans
... in the past two years our highest monthly data usage was 2.7GB. I use search often and stream YouTube videos and other data intensive stuff from time to time, though not often. We do use WiFi wherever it's available, that might make a difference in our data usage...
Those cheaper T-mobile plans don't offer the international coverage. You have to have the T-mobile Simple Choice plan or One plan for that. The T-mobile pre-paid plans definitely do not support it.
We have terrible cell reception at home from any carrier, T-mobile is no worse than AT&T or Verizon.I tried T-mobile when I was traveling internationally and it worked well overseas.
Here in the US, not so good. Calls would drop as I walked through the house, and my daughter didn't have coverage on her large state campus.
We switched to Cricket and it worked great for us. It was also cheaper than T-mobile at the time (tho not for other countries).
It's good that we can easily afford it then, isn't it.$35/month x 12 months = $420 is a lot of money to be paying for international coverage.
What solved the problem, and this was a big impetus to switch, was T-mobile's early support of wifi calling. Once wifi calling was available, all our at home cellphone reception problems went away completely.
Yeah - T-mobile and Sprint were the first to implement. About a year ahead of the others, I think, and supporting older hardware.We have poor cell coverage in our house too and love WiFi calling as the solution.
If you have iPhones (5c or newer) almost all the north American carriers support this. Certainly the majors do (ATT, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile). Here's the official list:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204039
Also note that on some carriers (ATT, Sprint, others) you can also use WiFi calling on non-phone devices. That means you can call a phone number (not Skype or FaceTime) using iPads, Macs, even Apple Watches. I find this handy once in a while if I'm using my Mac or iPad when the phone rings. If nothing else, if you enable this you have extra devices ringing when a call comes in.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032