How much do you pay for your phone plan, what do you get in return and in which country?
Slovakia, 300GB for 13 EUR/month, no texts and calls included. Those are 5 cents I think.
The carrier has an agreement with another one for coverage extension, but with official FUP of 20GB in that network.
This carrier however disregards that and instead allows up to 80GB, but for a few months after enabling 4G from that other carrier the FUP wasn't applied at all.
But it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
It operates on that other network like MVNO, and if your phone decides to stick there, which people report happens a lot, say hello to far lower FUP instead. The carrier's own network is also generally far slower.
I also found a little network issue (tested with 2 phones) where receiving calls are broken in a fairly specific scenario, but I don't know how to report that. To keep it short, if VoLTE isn't available, when switching from 2 of the 4G bands to one of the 2G bands, the call fails to connect after several long seconds of silence on caller end, and no notification of failed call attempt is sent.
I can work around both issues by selecting specific bands as needed manually, but that generally requires root and use of app like Network Signal Guru (inconvenient).
This allows me to decide whether I want more data amount, faster network speed, better outgoing call coverage, or higher chance of receiving a call. Yeah... their network sucks.
I also believe they break the EU roam like at home regulation:
Most plans only have half the data amount it seems they should have, but maybe I just calculated that wrong.
But this plan I have has... ZERO data for EU roaming.
2 x (price of mobile bundle excluding VAT / regulated maximum wholesale cap per GB) = data limit (in GB) when roaming
Hmmm... how does that give a zero.
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I feel like I'm missing out on something. I'm in Canada, unlimited texts, calls, etc. 225GB for two lines, $300 something/month. I feel like you are all in on some joke that I'm missing.
Canadian phone plans are insane. I'm on Roger's and they graciously allow me to "Roam like Home" for only 15/day in Europe... or I could buy a SIM card for five Euros that'll last me a fucking month.
That seems really high, even for Canada.
Have you looked at any of the flanker brands, like Koodo, Fizz, Public Mobile?
Geez were not much better in the US with telecoms but I'm only paying $110 for three lines 'unlimited' Simple Choice through TMobile. It used to be 6GB data but they upgraded it in the last few years. Even still I'm thinking about switching to Mint for $15/mo per line but I'm lazy as well...
My parents are through Verizon and pay the same for 2 lines even though they barely use their phones. One of them just upgraded from a flip phone this year.
That's even more expensive than Czech republic.
Which is what got me to ask this. I can't find anything near what I have there. The closest seems to be Kaktus at similar price, with 10GB (rather than my current 300GB for that price), then 2Mb/s Unlimited. Also 100 minutes or SMS, but still...
Then there's O2 which for similar price offers 3GB if you're up to 26... How generous.
13 EUR is around 19CAD or 330Kč.
Unlimited data with O2 for 1 line would be around 80 CAD checking T-Mobile and O2.
Quickly checking my carrier's site, similar to what you have (2 lines, unlimited data, SMS and calls) would cost 34 EUR per month. That's around 50 CAD...
Just to add some context I guess. From what they're telling me, the cost of my phone along with the other phone is attached onto the monthly cost. Since I have a Fold 5 and the other is a S24 FE which can ONLY use premium plans, according to Bell, the monthly cost is that absurd price.
Unlimited texts, unlimited calls, 50GB data (music streaming is ignored), EU roaming, 5G for £10/month.
Also it’s crazy how much US and AU people are paying!
Bruh what all that for 10? I'm paying almost 6 times that amount 🤯🤯🤯
Call your mobile provider (and be prepared to jump ship to a different provider) and ask to speak to their “Retentions” department or team. Every big provider has a team whose job it is to keep customers by basically throwing sweeteners at them.
It’s crazy how many services do this if you just call up, asking to cancel. Sky or Virgin (can’t remember which as I’ve not watched broadcast TV in a few years) gave me 3 months free every time I called to cancel.
Keep in mind AUD is 0.51 GBP.
But yeah, still a lot.
Aaah, thanks for the insight.
I've got 30GB + calls/texts for £8/month.
Ya, US dollar is 0.79 GBP. So my $40 plan would “only” be £31. Still much more expensive for sure though.
Not even gonna post numbers.
I'm Canadian.
Weep for me and my fellow citizens as we are robbed by our telco-oligarchs.
It's all of North America really... folks in the US and Mexico get railed as well.
France here
circa 10€ for 10GB of data and unlimited calls, in Germany.
USA. 4 lines with unlimited calls, text, and data. International calling and roaming throughout US, Canada & Mexico. Metered by the mjnute/megabyte for international (off-continent) travel. All in, $200 monthly.
(TMO, magenta plan which is now defunct)
I have the same, plus a watch plan, two home internets, apple tv, netflix, and i just realized that we were paying insurance on 4 phones (that i need to cancel to save$60!) for $374/mo.
3€ per month
2GB
Germany
$25 in the US for unlimited talk, text, and data, from Visible, as part of a party
Same but the throttling on "busy" towers makes even basic web page loading pretty shitty. Decent deal still but the throttling is really bad
Interesting. I've never experienced that. Are you in a really populated area?
Sim only. 6€, unlimited calls and sms, 6GB 4G data. Netherlands.
For 6€ you should be able to get 5g data at that rate. I'm on 5GB @5G for 5€ on Lebara.
I pay for three subs:
This reminds me I wanted to look for cheaper alternatives since neither my spouse and I use data much on our phones. I subscribed to those at a time we had a lot of issue with our fibre Internet so we could still work using our phones as hotspots... and I forgot about it :/
10€/month 5G "unlimited" (350GB IIRC before throttling). I think texts/SMS are unlimited and calls too but I just don't know as I send like 10 texts per months and make two 5 minute calls.
European roaming(edit: actually it's 110 countries) is I think 35GB 4G for free every month.
It was 20€ with a special 10€/month offer for a year, but when I asked for my RIO code to change they offered it like forever for 10€ so I stayed.
France.
American, AT&T Prepaid 2gb data, think unlimited texting/calling, $30 a month. Mostly 4g lte, but I also can get 5g e.
I got mine a while ago so ive been grandfathered into 16gb data, unlimited text qjd calling for $25/month.
Here in the UK, I'm currently on unlimited everything, calls, messages and data, for £18 per month.
Is it actually unlimited or some slow down after x amount?
Nope. Truly unlimited and I'm allowed to tether it as well. So when I'm in hotels away at work, it's my source of internet for my tablet and laptop.
Three is truly unlimited. I used to have them when I lived in Ireland. For a year it was the only internet at my home, so I worked and had meetings daily with it, my wife would watch YouTube and her classes, and we would both watch Netflix and play some online games. All from hotspoting from our phones. Battery on the phones was a problem, but we never hit any sort of data caps with them, and we were using hundreds of GB per month for sure.
I'd recommend getting a WiFi router with 4G/5G modem if you find yourself in that situation again.
But then that would beat the purpose of only paying one bill for both phone and internet at home.
That is not bad. Who are you with? I've got 130gb data, unlimited calls and texts for £13/ month with EE SIM only.
It's a two year old SIM only deal with Three. I've been with then for several years now and this contract expires in three weeks.
According to the app, I can upgrade to their Black Friday offer of the same conditions (unlimited everything) for just £22 a month! 😆
My contract will probably just keep rolling unchanged month to month but I wouldn't be surprised if Three try and get me to commit to something.
UK; £10pm, SIM only, no contract, 20Gb data, unlimited calls/texts, some roaming included, not sure how much. They keep emailing me to say I should move to a £8pm plan because I never use all my data, but that's only 5Gb data and I don't want to run out in an emergency.
JMP.chat
$5 per Gig, $0.0087 per voice minute (Yes, that's about 1¢/min).
Unlimited text, but what's really great is they pipe all SMS into XMPP/Jabber. So I use an XMPP/Jabber app on any device to use SMS.
About $30/month in the US. Unlimited data. Unlimited texting. Free long distance
I've been with Mint Mobile USA for 7 years now.
Same $15/month, for a Prepaid 12 months plan for ~$180/year
Used to be 2GB of 4G now it's 5GB of 5G.
Technically unlimited throttled slow data, good enough for maps/email after.
If anyone uses my link it should be +$15 referral credit bonus.
Can upgrade at anytime in a cycle, but can't downgrade, or also extra data buckets available.
End shilling
Also Ryan mails me an Xmas card every year ❤️.
They sent me a silly email today actually but hey...whatevs.
We just switched to that same plan from an Xfinity Family Plan we were on with my sister and her family. Been happy so far.
I'm on the same plan.
Or at least the majority stake he's figured to have been ~20-25% holder of Mint...he's still on this year's Xmas card technically mailed from him too.
Under the terms of the deal, Reynolds will continue to work in his creative role for Mint.$200 AUD, 200gb data, unlimited calls and texts. Amaysim In Australia.
https://www.amaysim.com.au/sim-plans/12-month-sim-plans/unlimited-200gb
So $200 per year for 200gb per month? Or 200gb per year?
Most UK phone plans are done monthly for everything.
Sorry, wasn't clear, $200 for 200gb, 1 year expirey. Most are monthly here as well, but there are some yearly plans.
The good part of yearly plans is that I have plenty of data on the rare occasion that I'm on holiday or whatever, but with the lower average cost.
In the US. Google Fi simply unlimited plan.
I am lucky enough to have never had a cell phone bill to this day. I got my first real job in 2006, and before that, I lived with my parents and just used their flip phone when going out. I will say I was a little late, but for the most part nobody in my generation used cell phones except to actually get in touch with someone and that's it. Once at my job, I was handed a phone and number to use through the company. Since I was in IT, we basically controlled the phones and didn't care if it was used personally. I am still with the same company today, but there have been changes and got scary so now I just purchased an android phone, signed up for Google voice to give myself a free number and use wifi for everything else. When I leave the house I have the company phone turn on Hotspot and my personal connects to it, so it's basically like having everything a provider offers without a bill.
The single issue I have is that some services do not consider Google voice number a legit line so I can't use the number for sign-ups or mfa on like 15% of the accounts I use. Apple, and battle.net are 2 off the top of my head.
You can probably just get any cheapest prepaid SIM for that purpose.
Too much, not enough, Canada.
US, Cricket, $160/month for five lines
US.
RedPocket, $20 bucks a month.
Unlimited Texts
Unlimited Calls/Minutes
10 GB data
(10$ toward Intl. Calls)
4G LTE / 5G
They're an MVNO that somehow utilizes the Verizon, T Mobile, and AT&T network at the same time.
Physical or ESim card options, but if you go with physical, its mailed to you (free shipping 7-10 days), after ordering entirely online without having to go anywhere or talk to anyone.
Will give you a new number or migrate your old one, whichever you want.
With the physical card, you can pop it in to a different carrier-unlocked phone, input the IMEI to an online activation and you're good to go in 10 minutes.
No costs or restrictions with that, from RedPocket's end.
Best mobile phone plan I can find if you don't care about data caps because you've got home internet and don't do hugely data intensive things away from wifi.
Why though? This sounds like a big stupidity. The advantage of physical SIM is that I can easily move it to another device when my phone breaks, and the carrier still sees the IMEI anyway.
So you can easily change it? If so that's fine then.
UK, £8 a month for 12Gb, unlimited calls and texts, Europe and US roaming included. However, the speed of the roaming just is garbage, completely useless for anything other than text only IMs. If you pay the daily premium, it suddenly improves to useful speed.
Roaming anywhere else is expensive enough to bankrupt a billionaire, something like 50p a Mb, yes Mb not Gb. And that's on top of a daily roaming charge that's mandatory in those regions.
Normally I just pick up a local sim when abroad as the roaming is just garbage.
Well, well, well. Let's look at my carrier.
Within EU: €0.014/MB
Within Europe outside EU + US and Canada: €2/MB. That's £1.66 per Megabyte.
North America (excl. US and Canada), South America, Middle East, Asia and africa: €3/MB. That's £2.49 per Megabyte.
Brace yourself...
Tunisia, Lebanon and Satellite networks (I think that includes ships and planes): €16/MB. That's £13.29 per motherfucking Megabyte.
Sweden, cca 50eur/month. Unlimited 5G with free calls and text, 50gb within EU+ some other countries outside, free data sim (in my home modem), up to 4 extra data sim cards for 1.75eur/month.
$10/m redpocket.com, US. 1gb/m 5g data plus some big amount of voice+sms. This is way more than I need. They have smaller plans too.
Canada - Telus/Koodo
$40 CAD/mo
70Gb up/down/mo
Unlimited calls and texts in Canada, voicemail, call control, and free international sms
4G LTE but often connect to LTE+
Average speed test 180 Mbps up/down
I pay €90 a month for a package that includes:
I think if I wanted to get just the phone line it would be something like €10 a month for the unlimited data one. This is in Spain.
25€ a month, unlimited 200MBps internet, calls and texts. Includes roaming in the whole EU.
About 10 euro for 12GB
American. Tello. $15 for 5GB. T-Mobile network.
I barely stream unless it's transcoded by Spotify or Jellyfin and mostly use my data for browsing. I rarely ever hit my limit. Cheap and works for me.
I use Tello for like six bucks a month just to make my camper into a smart camper when I'm not there so I can check in on the dogs.
Canada, $225.00 for 4 lines and 2 phones 60 gb data Unlimited Canadian calling/international texting 5 free hours of data when activated via app The phones are a Pixel 7 and a Moto Razr+
USA, Verizon, $125/mo for one cellphone with unlimited data and one tablet with unlimited data. It includes Netflix, Disney+, and Hulu. I also pay monthly for accidental damage protection.
I had to go with an expensive plan because there's no Wifi at my job site and my data kept getting deprioritized on other companies. So I pay a premium to be able to watch YouTube while I work.
I'm in same boat and fuckin hate it. I want to test out other providers who piggyback on Verizon network because other providers don't have good enough coverage where I am.
I tried a couple and they were fine when I was the only person in the office, but on busy days I had zero access to high speed data. Couldn't even get Discord messages.
México. I have Telcel. I pay 550 MXN (≈ 27 USD; €25.50; £21.20) and get 16 GB data + unlimited calling/text with free roaming in the United States and Canada. I also get free long distance to national numbers and United States and Canada.
One trick: my plan is technically 8 GB with a 2 × 1 promotion for 2 years. Every two years, all I do is ask them to renew my contract and my 2 × 1 promotion and I get my 16 GB back. I literally get 8 GB of data for the cost of a smile and a "por favor" every two years.
EDITED TO ADD: I get full 5G speeds in both México and in the United States and Canada. I get up to 200 Mbps in both México and the United States. While in the United States, I roam on the T Mobile network, so I'll get whatever the T Mobile network is capable of. I've never been to Canada, so I don't know how well it performs. But it's still part of my plan.
And, if I want native coverage in Latin America, EU, or UK, I can pay 950 MXN (≈ 46.60 USD; €44; £36.60) on demand for 10 GB of data for 30 days. Granted, travel eSIMs are a better deal, but the option is there.
Cheapest I could find in Sweden. Around 10€. I think it is 3GB data and unlimited calls and texts. Whatever data I don't use stacks up for a year or somesuch. I have WiFi at home and the office so I don't really need much data. I would go for a cheaper plan if it existed.
Have lived in the states my whole life.
No idea how much it costs since I'm still on parents plan. We supposedly get something like unlimited data, but it slows down after a certain amount used.
Don't know whether the 5G even works on my phone since I can't tell the difference between it and 4G on the other phones I've had in the past.
There's a specific spot in my city I absolutely hate riding by on bus because at this one specific light I swear service just dies until we get passed it (which takes what feels like forever since the bus somehow always hits it at red or just turning red).
Otherwise, no complaints other than the time I had to uninstall corporate spyware (social media/games) that they decided I absolutely needed in my life after an update. I'm thankful that they didn't push them as system apps.
Also thankful that the phone I got came with a sim card slot and they let me transfer my number to a new one because I couldn't retrieve my old one.
I live in the USA and I use Mint Mobile, I pay $20 a month for 15gb of data a month along with unlimited texts and calls. That was about the cheapest plan I could find for one person while still having a reasonable amount of data. It generally works pretty good although I have noticed sometimes especially if I'm at a busy place it can be a bit slow but that makes sense since they're just using other companies networks. I've also had a lot less issues now that I've set up Wi-Fi texting and calling correctly as I didn't realize I had to enable it in the Mint Mobile app for it to actually work correctly.
I'm on Google Fi in the US. $50/mo for 3 lines with unlimited calling/texting, and $10/GB of data, with charges capping at 12 GB (data isn't limited to 12 GB, they just stop charging you after 12 GB; this threshold depends on the number of lines on the account - more lines results in a higher pricing cap). I'm on wifi 99.99% of the time so it's generally pretty rare that I use more than a single GB across all 3 lines.
Finland.
19€/month for unlimited everything.
US, had Verizon for $170/mo (2 lines) with a lot of extras on an “unlimited” plan they’re actively trying to kick people off of. Switched to Visible (aka different flavored Verizon) on a discount for $35 per line (normally $45) for up to two years, basically the same unlimited phone plan but no extras. The only benefit for the extras was locking in a price on subscription services until Verizon started monthly surcharges to keep up.
Czechia, unlimited calls, texts and data. Data speed capped at 10mbit/s (1.25 MB) for 500 CZK/month (~20€). Unlimited data speed is about twice the price. Vodafone
35GB, $46.78, Canada - Saskatchewan I get unlimited textand calls, 5G networking, Caller display, and voicemail.
US $20/mo with mint mobile 15gb data cap. Unlimited talk/txt. Sometimes I get 200mbps but it's usually like 20mbps. I don't think I've gone over 10gb. I work from home and usually use fiber Internet there - $60/mo for 300mbps up/down
Three lines unlimited data calling and text included 70$/month. The business I opened my phone plan with has a policy of never raising rates ever. Ive been on the same plan close to a decade. It would be double if I opened a account today.
9,99€ per month unlimited calls and messages and 140GB data. 50GB for EU roaming.
Unlimited data, calling, text. $60 including tax with google fi. United States
US Mint Mobile $30/mo unlimited data, texts, calls. One of the best unlimited rates in the US. I use north of 12GB/mo so no limited plan is going to cut it for me.
unlimited* = 40GB
This is true of all carriers here. It's such bullshit that they're allowed to use this verbiage when it's obviously not the case.
Totally agree. It’s BS but at least Mint’s is fairly high. I stream all my music daily and watch whatever I want and typically it’s below 15GB/month. I’d have to be downloading Linux ISOs to hit 40.
That's not even so much, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised about the US. Especially after I've seen crap like Unlimited data + 5GB hotspot. Excuse me, that is clearly a limit.
For reference, I've used 225GB on my data this month, but it's my only connection.
Right, on fiber at home I hit 1.7TB on average/month. This doesn’t include me working 40 hours on the company network either.
USA - AT&T Prepaid. $40 per month. Unlimited talk and text in/to the US, Mexico and Canada. “Unlimited” data BUT after 15GB 5G data, speed is reduced to 3G(?) speeds so email, messaging and other apps using light data still work OK but browsing is verrrrry slow - forget about streaming at that point (it also includes roll-over of unused data from previous month). I don’t usually go over the 15GB though due to wi-fi available most places I am usually at.
$25 per year, 100GiB per month, Malaysia but it works in Singapore, texts and calls cost per minute... But I never use them.
Wow. That's cheap.
USA, I've been using a $2.50/month plan from Red Pocket, but this thread reminded me that I need to renew for the coming year, and it appears the price has gone up to $3.75/month now. If that's really the case, I'm not exactly pleased about that.
It's just a bare bones plan with 200 minutes, 1000 texts, and 200MB of data. But I'm usually at home on Wi-Fi and I just use a Google voice number so I never really eat into the minutes or texts. I pretty much only use the data for emergencies like if I'm out driving somewhere and I wasn't able to plan and look up maps ahead of time.
₹719 for 1 GB/Day + Unlimited Calls + 100 SMS/Day valid for 72 Days. Post daily quota, data speed will be upto 64Kbps. About 3.4 eur per month.
Germany
€39.95
80gb
I think all German numbers talk is included. But texting and external calls still costs additional money.
Switzerland: Just upgraded my plan to 18.90CHF (21.45usd) for unlimited 5G (1700mbps), calls and text in Switzerland and 20GB, 100 minutes and texts in EU and UK. I haven't switched my number yet so I'll have to see what coverage is like, but it will likely be very good cause switzerland.
Netherlands - Odido 25€/month Unlimited data, calls and texts in the Netherlands. 45 GB of data and 120 minutes/month of calls in EU.
I also have odido and pay 16, unlimited calls (I think also text), 25GB of data. I think it was 20GB, but we get 5GB extra because my wife also has odido. 25GB is more than enough for my use, I used 12GB max in the last 12 months.
$25 a month, US, MVNO on Verizon network.
Had to bring my own phone, which is in bad shape and I’ll have to replace eventually, but I basically don’t think about my service at all.
That MVNO also has a program to heavily discount service for up to three months due to loss of job or temp disability, because, yknow, you need a phone number to look for a job.
That discount was damn nice when I had a couple of surgeries this year.
Spain, 38€/month for a phone line, 1000mbps, 1 phone with 100GB and unlimited calls/SMS 7 extra for an additional phpne
American here, we're on an AT&T family plan at $50 USD/month for each line. Yeah, it's expensive, but you get a lot for that price; unlimited talk, unlimited texts, and unlimited data (with no throttling); there's no roaming anywhere in Mexico, Canada, or the United States and no charges for calling international between those three countries (and I think that might also include the Bahamas, but I could be mistaken). We also get a 60 GB hotspot per line per month, but that part might be inside the US only, I've never used it during trips to Mexico or Canada.
Similar here with Verizon: $48/line unlimited everything, no cap. However no mmWave (they want to charge extra), and data is throttled in Canada and Mexico
USA, Visible Wireless $30 per month unlimited everything.
9€/month, 100Go (5G), unlimited call and SMS. France.
$180/mo for 5 lines of unlimited talk, text, and data, + free international calling. When I travel to other countries it's another $50/mo for international roaming in supported countries. Works in Mexico, Costa Rica, England, the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany, so far.
Between $25-$30/month. It's technically a dollar per gig of data up to 10gb, but I don't leave the house often so I use only a couple dollars worth. Also unlimited text and talk. In the US.
19 euro
Ireland. €10 / around $11 USD a month for unlimited everything.
Limited to a 4G data connection. 15 a month if I want to move to 5G but I haven't had any real need for the extra speed since I'm mostly using WiFi.
Edit: just ran a speed test there. 42Mbps on the mobile connection.
May not even be much faster anyway.
I have 4G phone, my dad has a 5G phone. I asked if I could check the network speed. 45Mbps on 4G, 50Mbps on 5G. Meh. And the more people move to 5G the slower it will get, and the faster the 4G gets. I've seen this with 3G before shutdown, it was by far faster than overloaded 4G.
Coincidentally I just ran a speed test as you were typing. 42Mbps. Perfectly happy with what I'm getting. It's more than enough for when I'm out and about.
4ka? I saw 15€ price for this plan on their website.
Yep, but I am a long time customer. They had a €2/month off offer, and that's still valid for me. But it only means €2 cheaper. When it got raised from 14 to 15, mine was raised from 12 to 13.
The offer is called "NAJVIAC".