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Carrier How much is your monthly iPhone bill?

What is your TOTAL monthly iPhone bill?

  • <$50

    Votes: 753 40.0%

  • $50-$75

    Votes: 267 14.2%

  • $75-$100

    Votes: 244 13.0%

  • $100-$125

    Votes: 167 8.9%

  • $125-$150

    Votes: 117 6.2%

  • $160-$175

    Votes: 53 2.8%

  • $175-$200

    Votes: 87 4.6%

  • $200-$250

    Votes: 94 5.0%

  • $250-$300

    Votes: 41 2.2%

  • >$300

    Votes: 61 3.2%
  • Total voters
    1,884
I’ve just dropped Tesco Mobile, because I got fed up with O2’s signal as I could have full 4G and not be able to browse the web.
I’m now with Smarty, unlimited text and calls, 8GB 4G data for £15 a month and no contract SIM only. Plus at the end of every month they actually buy back any unused data you have in your plan. It’s working well so far.
 
£6-£7 per month for 25GB of 4G data and unlimited call/texts

Should be £20 per month but my carrier keeps applying discounts on top of discounts!!

Let’s just say I’m keeping quiet until they notice!!
 
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We pay 900 Baht (about US$30) for a shared plan. That includes up to five numbers. 20GB of 4G data and 500 minutes of phone calls. I think SMS is extra. We've never reached the maximum on either data or calls. We have three users. None of us use SMS, so I don't know how much it costs, but I think it's one baht per message. The carrier is DTAC.
 
ecschwarz said:
Before taxes, ours is $145, so it would be about $36/person. All of our phones were bought outright or were paid off. If we upgraded 3 of the lines to the base SE, that would add about $50/month to the total. Still, $200ish for 4 lines and a decent amount of data isn't bad on a family plan.
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I thought I'd revisit it since it's been a few years and fun to look back on how much has changed in such a short time. Currently, we're doing 4/$100 Unlimited on Cricket, which was a pretty painless change from AT&T (between my old post and now we did briefly have the 5GB plan and I dabbled with T-Mobile's prepaid service for my own line).
  • Who your carrier is: Cricket
  • How many lines you have: 4
  • Your minutes/texts/data allotment: Unlimited, 3 Mbps data throttle (decent latency so it doesn't feel bad outside of trying to do app updates over the air)
  • What other features are included: Mexico and Canada roaming
  • What promotions/discounts you receive: I sometimes buy refill cards on sale at Target/Meijer, so we pay even less...I think maybe I'm averaging about $85-$90/month
  • What your TOTAL monthly bill is: $100/month
This thread is fun, but I think the one thing to consider is total bill versus price per line (i.e. an individual may pay $50/month, but our lines end up as $25/month each if you split it).
 
Phone plans vary with promos, number of phones on plan, GB of data etc etc etc.
Hard to make a comparison without all the facts
 
I pay about $80 Canadian for unlimited texting, calling and 12GB of data including taxes. I paid $800 up front for my iPhone X on a two year contract (the cost of the 256GB iPhone X was $1529 in Canada when it was released so the other $729 was baked into the monthly cost of the plan.) I would be paying $160 a month for all of it with taxes but I have a 50% discount for working at an official retailer. Prices is Canada have gotten a tiny bit better since than but not hugely
 
My postpaid family plan: ~$10 USD per month per person for 10GB of data and unlimited calling amongst members of the family plan. No contract whatsoever.
 
Unlimited calls and texts + 50Gb data within Europe for 10€/month. (About $12).

I'd say I have good deal!
 
mattopotamus said:
$40

AT&T prepaid (no speed caps)

unlimited talk, text, and 8GB of Data that I can use how I want (tether for example).


edit: Looking through these post, I am clearly seeing speeds caps are the new data caps. All of these "cheap" unlimited plans with speeds caps of 1.5 or 3 mbps which often times are below 1mbps.
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If you don't mind me asking, and I know taxes vary by location, what the cost for you is after taxes?

thanks
 
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Sprint free for a year bring your own device plan
 
I have an iPhone SE and am in the UK. My wife also has an iPhone and we are both with Tesco Mobile. I pay £14 per month (that is for us both) and we each get:

  • 1000MB data
  • 500 minutes
  • 5000 texts

We never go over that and what I like is that we can cap our bills so we don't get any nasty surprises! Service has been excellent. Can't complain.
 
Apple_Glen_UK said:
I have an iPhone SE and am in the UK. My wife also has an iPhone and we are both with Tesco Mobile. I pay £14 per month (that is for us both) and we each get:

  • 1000MB data
  • 500 minutes
  • 5000 texts

We never go over that and what I like is that we can cap our bills so we don't get any nasty surprises! Service has been excellent. Can't complain.
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Seems too expensive.

In India for £17 per year you get:

Unlimited calls and texts.

1.5 GB LTE data per day x 360 days. Total up to 540 GB per year.
[doublepost=1558544607][/doublepost]If you want something fancy you could spend $8 for:

Unlimited calls and texts.

75 GB 4G data

For 1 month. Postpaid.
 
Lyrca said:
Unlimited calls and texts + 50Gb data within Europe for 10€/month. (About $12).

I'd say I have good deal!
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It sounds an excellent deal. For me the sticking point is availability of eSim, and this is why I have to pay €20 for unlimited calls & texts within Spain, 6 GB data and roaming within EU.
 
aakshey said:
Seems too expensive.

In India for £17 per year you get:

Unlimited calls and texts.

1.5 GB LTE data per day x 360 days. Total up to 540 GB per year.
[doublepost=1558544607][/doublepost]If you want something fancy you could spend $8 for:

Unlimited calls and texts.

75 GB 4G data

For 1 month. Postpaid.
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That's great, but I'm not in India. I'm in England and I think the deal I have got is very good. For the first six months of it it was only £3.75 per month. Of course, if there are any cheaper details anyone knows of, I'd love to know!
 
Probably better deals out there, but I have been with Sprint for years.

Yeah, it's not the best carrier. Yeah, their customer server sucks. Yeah, their coverage isn't as good as some others.

But it's $90/month including everything -- unlimited data, calls, texts, etc. And that includes all those bogus taxes too.
 
Sky Mobile (UK)

£37 per month - iPhone XR was free, no upfront cost.
10GB 4G with tethering.
Unlimited Calls (other UK mobiles and landlines).
Unlimited Texts.

When seeing what our American friends pay, all I can say is man, you guys get bumped.
 
willmtaylor said:
Which is why everyone is providing all of the pertinent details and facts. :rolleyes:
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Yeah, I think the only improvement to this thread is that the voting should be the average per-line cost on your account (as a 4 or 5-line account will be more expensive than most single line accounts no matter what).
 
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aakshey said:
Seems too expensive.

In India for £17 per year you get:

Unlimited calls and texts.

1.5 GB LTE data per day x 360 days. Total up to 540 GB per year.
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It makes no sense comparing the price of mobile plans between the UK and India. If you wanted to make such a comparison you would need to make an adjustment by taking into account additional factors.
 
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2 iPhones. Primary (iPhone X) $40/month with plan to change carriers to $45/month.
Backup (7+), $5/month.
 
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