I have an unlimited Data Plan and I do not get charged/throttled with T-Mobile I use about 30GB a month lol +unlimited streaming
I cant figure out why people stay with carriers that charge them ' overages' such a trap
People stay with carriers that are able to provide them service.
I can't figure out why people feel that just because their carrier works for them it should work for everybody.
I think plenty of folks would like nothing more than to go with TMobile (or another carrier) in order to save money. I personally tried it and I couldn't live with the Edge data and spotty reception. At that rate I may not as well even be using a smartphone.
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I have an old AT&T plan that gets me 450 minutes and 2gb of data. I had them disable my ability to send/receive texts. My workaround for that is using iMessages for my iPhone friends and Google Voice for everyone else. With the discount I receive from my place of employment, I pay roughly $61.13/mo. I don't talk a lot on the phone for 450 mins is enough (plus I have Rollover minutes) and data is never an issue.
This all might change as I'll be getting married next year thus my future wife and I will most likely start a new plan together :/
You would end up paying $130 minus whatever perxentage discount (Shen off of $100) you get now, so it actually might work out to be the same. You would get unlimited minutes and texts and share 10gb of data, which sound like more than enough. You could go to a lower data plan for some slight savings.
Of course you wouldn't be getting a subsidized phone, but consider that you also aren't dropping $200+ on the device (rather paying monthly installments or buying outright), there are savings there.
The short end of it, if you upgrade every year, you will be paying slightly more monthly when your wife is added to your line (speaking per line of course, your total will obviously be much more than your single line is now), but it shouldn't be an astronomical change.