Wow - even $68 per month seems a lot. I'm paying AUD 30 (with the Aussie running roughly 1:1 with the USD ATM), and I get a 200MB and some fairly large amount of included calls that I don't go anywhere near, unless the phone decides to call out by itself for a few hours. And it also includes an Android (admittedly old now) phone paid off over 24 months. Works for me.
I was paying another $10 per month for my wife's basic 2G phone service - but she's decided to join the smart phone revolution, and it had to be iPhone with Siri. So I'm up for $48 per month on that, including the phone :). Cheers On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:11:07PM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote: > God, I can't believe yet another dog fight with Verizon! I changed to > automatic billing but they skipped a month because I set the automatic > withdraw date to be 4 days after I signed up for automatic, and that was > too close for their system to manage. So then I get a weird sci-fi > automated phone call telling me I'm close to loosing my service! Holy cow, > how do they stay in business?! I could whittle you a better system than > they have. > > BUT while going through this weirdness (which got settled by their > suspending the auto, paying manually .. over the phone .. for *2* months, > then picking up the autopay in April!!) I started looking at my account and > data plan. > > I appear to pay less than most folks. My monthly is $68/mo: > > $30 voice (450 min) > $30 data (2GB) > $0 txt (pay as you go) > $8 Tax & services. > > I recall from earlier conversations many of us pay a lot more. > > But what amazes me that I don't use anywhere near that amount of data, even > tho I've started using the phone for radio (NPR, BBC, etc) quite a bit. > > Do you folks use 2G/month? I gotta presume the only way to do this is to > start using it for video -- TV & Movies. Is that right? Maybe games? > > I know there was a huge ballyhoo over the lack of "unlimited" data but > apparently 2G *is* unlimited for primitive me! > > -- Owen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
