I'm the king of cheap (but not cheap enough to go no phone route I guess) and we considered straight talk, T-mobile, etc. but stayed with Verizon after lots of calling and haggling with different providers. Currently paying $69.50/mth with two smartphones, unlimited talk, unlimited text, and 5GB (or more, see below) of shared data for 2 smartphones.
We are currently on the Verizon "More Everything" plan. I called to say I was leaving Verizon because I wanted no contract and they mentioned this one with promotions. It's not publicized well but they had to start offering to compete with all the straight talk folks that are leaving the big boys. Also, we live in Scottsboro so the only service worth a dang here is Verizon (or a straight talk/cheaper service that works off Verizon towers):
- Bought used Samsung Galaxy S3 off ebay in immaculate condition for $109 shipped to my door
- wife has an old iphone 4 we bought off Ebay for around $120 3 yrs ago
- Added 2 parents and one grandparent to our account since they were also out of contract and owned their own phones... I think you can add up to 8-10 lines
- Plan cost breakdown: $80/mth for plan which is unlimited talk and text with 10 GB of data to share with all lines. I get a 18% discount through my employer and 3% discount with autopay to my credit card (which I pay monthly and get hotel reward points that equal free vacations :))... so it's $63.20/mth, $15/line for 4 smartphones, and $20/line for 1 flip/dumb phone.
We split the plan cost in half between us and my parents and just let my grandmother pay $20 for her phone so our cost would be even less if we split the 63.20 by 3 instead of 2.
So... long-winded (and might not even be helpful) but that's what we do. None of us are die-hard techies, gamers, etc. so we don't even use half the data each month but it was/is such a good deal (6GB of data for 70/mth or 10GB for 80/mth) that we picked up the extra 4GB of data because that locks in our rate much like folks who had those early "unlimited data" plans with Verizon and were grandfathered in.
Last edited by NEbamahunter; 07/23/15 07:00 AM.
