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Re: So the cheapest monthly rate for an iPhone is..... - vision63 - 12-20-2009
jdc wrote:
[quote=Grateful11]
I'd love to have one but sorry I'm not paying $70+ for one line, there's 4 of use on our cell
account for $120/month, 700 minutes, unlimited Text, data blocked. I get a 20% corp.
discount through Verizon. We never use all our minutes.
Its the data part that kills you.
4 lines = $30 x 4 for the data plan -- ATT gets you for the texting part too, schysters.
FWIW, if i do a 2 line verizon plan, with a droid and an eris -- 1400 minutes + 5000 messages + email/web + visual voice mail = $195 a month for both lines...
personally, i would never use that many texts, so i could knock that down to 1500, but it still leaves me at $185
On Sprint, you could do 2 lines with 1500 minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited data, unlimited roaming, unlimited calls to "any" mobile phone, with perhaps an Android equipped HTC Hero and a similar Samsung Moment (likely to be upgraded to 2.0) for just $129 per month.
Re: So the cheapest monthly rate for an iPhone is..... - quicknight - 12-20-2009
The UnDoug wrote:
Does anyone know what the cheapest AT&T plan is after taxes and fees? In other words, what is the bottom line total per month for the cheapest plan?
Or does it vary from state to state?
I'm in Pennsylvania.
I'm leaning toward unlocking and going with T-Mobile (I have a first gen. iPhone).
I'm trying to use the $20 data only plan on an iPhone 2G 3.1.2. I'm getting an error message that says "could not activate cellular data network: you are not subscribed to cellular data service." Does anyone know of a mod that will allow this to work? Am I screwed? Will ATT refund my $20?
Please help!
Re: So the cheapest monthly rate for an iPhone is..... - mspace - 12-20-2009
quicknight wrote:
[quote=The UnDoug]
Does anyone know what the cheapest AT&T plan is after taxes and fees? In other words, what is the bottom line total per month for the cheapest plan?
Or does it vary from state to state?
I'm in Pennsylvania.
I'm leaning toward unlocking and going with T-Mobile (I have a first gen. iPhone).
I'm trying to use the $20 data only plan on an iPhone 2G 3.1.2. I'm getting an error message that says "could not activate cellular data network: you are not subscribed to cellular data service." Does anyone know of a mod that will allow this to work? Am I screwed? Will ATT refund my $20?
Please help!
You probably have to find the right APN to work with that service. For t-mobile, there are about 3 that I know of. Different ones work for some in different areas.
You change the APN in settings/general/network/cellular data network. The APN is the first thing listed under "Cellular Data".
http://moodswitcher.blogspot.com/2009/06/iphone-at-vvm-mms-apn-settings.html
Re: So the cheapest monthly rate for an iPhone is..... - guitarist - 12-20-2009
TMobile, anyone?
I'm currently with AT&T, very recently, but for about two years I used a jailbroken unlocked iPhone with TMobile and paid a fraction, and got nearly all the same benefits. I didn't have to have a full on data plan, I did just as well with one of their cheaper data packages, that I hijacked to use with the iPhone, which they unofficially support.
No one is forced to pay AT&T to enjoy the benefits of an iPhone.
Re: So the cheapest monthly rate for an iPhone is..... - Done - 12-20-2009
I pay 135.00 taxes and everything for 3 phones, 1 iPhone and 2 regular phones. I have one data package, 200 text and 700 minutes. Most of my calls are AT&T to AT&T so I even have plenty of rollovers from that.
I was on tmobile with a jailbroke phone and it worked fine but internet was dog slow, with the 3gs and AT&T I feel like I have broadband at all times (I have movies on Mobile Me and with good quality and they load up over 3gs in less than a minute, not saying it downloads the whole movie it will start playing). Tmobile definitely gives you a better package but mine worked out that I don't need all that tmobile gives so I only pay 10.00 more a month and internet flies compared to tmobile. But you know how people complain about AT&T so I would check out your area first, my area has no problems.
Re: So the cheapest monthly rate for an iPhone is..... - thermarest - 12-21-2009
$8.33
Unlock, buy T-Mobile pre-paid cards. $100 expires in 12 mo.