Even though I secretly snicker when well-funded folks here worry about
the last nickel on their cell phone plans, I just got "skooled" by ATT
on this topic.
I normally run a 1GB "family share" plan over 2 phones and pay a
whopping $120/month for this. My wife hardly uses HER phone at all and
my use can be sporadic (days without a call or txt) since we don't get
coverage at our house. I've dabbled with other options, the closest to
a good deal being "prepaid plans" from T-mobile but their data coverage
out of town seems weak (i.e. while I'm traveling where I use it as a
hotspot for my computer). A prepaid plan at $2/day for "unlimited
everything" comes out to about $120 for two phones if used every day.
Neither my wife nor I has the patience or willpower to leave our phones
off for days at a time and all it takes is a single incoming txt message
to trigger that day's charges... so on average we could do a little
better, but probably not much.
I just checked my current data usage since when traveling I can rack up
2-3 GB overages (@$20/GB) easily. In the process I discovered that
their 3GB "family share" plan quoted at $90/month. Of *course* the
prices are going down and the services are going up to be competitive,
and of *course* ATT wasn't going to tell me that automatically.
I *think* I just saved $30/month on my basic plan and put myself close
if not entirely under the data limit when on the road... and if I
thought I needed 6GB regularly, I could now have *that* for the original
$120.
So, I guess I understand why some here revisit their cell plans
regularly in what I previously felt was a bit of "first world
hand-wringing". I've probably forked over a few hundred dollars to ATT
in the last year or so, unnecessarily?
- Steve
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