Yeah, I pay about $1,000 per year for my cell service which comes with unlimited data. I cannot justify it, but I also don’t want to switch, so I guess I’m being irrational.
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Yeah, I pay about $1,000 per year for my cell service which comes with unlimited data. I cannot justify it, but I also don’t want to switch, so I guess I’m being irrational.
Just changed my Phone contract to Sim Only deal, as my 2 year old phone is perfectly fine and should last for a few years yet.
I now pay £12 a month for unlimited calls & texts + 100 GB Data, happy I switched to Sim only !!
A friend always says "The cost of quality of life is not linear." Meaning, I suppose, that "twice as good" costs more than "twice as much." Diminishing returns kicks in early.
Is that specifically a UK thing? I've never heard of Sim Only before now.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedSomeAnswers
The closest thing around here might be "bring your own phone." But as far as I can tell the best you might expect from carriers here is some form of one-time "reward" in the form of a "gift card" with no other discounts.
I might be doing SIM Only. I went with a reseller. They give me a SIM for whatever network I want to use, and I brought (and bought) my own phone.
I was using a flip phone up until last year. I only moved over because I wanted to be able to use the phone as a navigation device for a very remote, multi-week, bike ride. The fact that I could often use it to work remotely was icing on the cake. The amount of data per month that I have isn't all that high, but I don't think I've come close to using it. I think I have 12 GB/month, and I'm not sure that I've ever topped 2 GB.
I just avoid videos, but that's easy to do for the uses I have.
Ah. Yeah, I bought my phone and my wife's phone from the Apple store in Metairie then got my cell carrier to give me a SIM card. But I definitely didn't get any kind of discount for doing that, just not having to pay a monthly note on financing a phone.
That may be all there is.
What you can't get Sim Only in the US? I thought they were fairly common, maybe they are called something else?Quote:
Is that specifically a UK thing? I've never heard of Sim Only before now.
When my last contract finished I had paid for and own the phone, so rather than getting a new one I kept it and over here at least you can get Sim Only contracts where they send you just the Sim and you sign a 12 month contract for you calls, texts & data.
I'm not sure whether you can get EXACTLY that. For me, I bought the phone separate, but I don't sign a year long contract. I pay by the month with no contract. Still, they sent me only the SIM, so it is pretty similar.
Yeah, it sounds very similar. The only difference is that I'm paying way more than £12 a month.
One reason I am paying so much is that I am with AT&T, which has the more reliable service where I live. If I were to switch to a carrier that leases AT&T's cell service it probably wouldn't be so bad. My only concern is that I had a friend who left AT&T and he told me that those secondary services work great if you're in a big town like New Orleans or Baton Rouge, but if you live in a rural part of the state (which I do) then I may have some problems. They might not lease the area that I live in or even if they do, AT&T prioritizes their customer's usage of the service so I could see slower/spottier connection with a "lesser" carrier.
Over here, if you're going for a fixed term contract you can generally get a phone included or not, whichever you prefer. If you don't want a phone you can also get a Pay as You Go deal but it will typically be more expensive than a fixed term.
Generally, a fixed term with phone is the best deal because they use the phone as a loss leader to tempt you onto the contract. If you've already got the phone you want then a fixed term without phone is usually the best. Pay as You Go deals are generally for drug dealers.
I've been on a prepaid plan for years, and I never have to add more than $100 USD each year to carry my existing balance forward.
This is a no-data plan and any day I use the phone I get 24 hours of unlimited talk and text and my balance gets charged $2. So if I used it every day it would cost me $730/year for non-leap years, about $61/month.
As long as I don't exceed 50 days/year I just add another $100 annually. I'm a light phone user so I still have a balance somewhat over $200 right now.
Any day that I get a legit call or a spam call that gets past the filter or send a text it costs $2. But that gives me 24 hours to make social calls and texts to family and friends. I can only think of two years when I had to add another $100 and I could probably have just added $50 or something.
I just about gag when I see advertising that shows people dipping pizza into Raunch Dressing. Can't abide slimy dumpster-drippins' condiments.
Saw a cooking show where a recipe used Hellhole Valley Raunch dry packet contents in Shepherd's Pie. They explained that it is 50% MSG and the cheapest way to buy MSG unless you buy in bulk. 25% is stuff like onion powder... with parsley bits as decoration. Another 25% is popcorn salt, but most people buy salt in bulk so that wasn't the reason they used it.
Yeah, for many years I'd just buy $20 worth of minutes and they were good for three months. I never needed more than that. But I just keep the phone in the car for emergencies. But a few years ago I decided to get a smart phone, Because all the cool kids had them. Still hardly use it but now I pay $25 a month. I have a land line at home, with 4 phones attached. So every place I relax there is a phone within reach. I don't want to be carrying a cell phone around with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
We prefer the term entrepreneur.Quote:
Pay as You Go deals are generally for drug dealers.
I was a light phone user, but my main objective was battery life, so now I'm a heavy phone user. It doesn't affect my balance all that much, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
Onion powder is risky, for me. I avoid it, as much as I can. Actually, now that I think about it, the real risk isn't to me, it is to those around me.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
I wouldn't want to mess up a perfectly good pizza with some alien sauce, though.
I no longer have a land line, but if I did...there's a phone outlet by the toilet in the bathroom. It lets a person share their moving thoughts.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt