My own data plan in India gives me 2GB+unlimited Facebook/Twitter/Whatsapp. It costs me about US$2 per month. The provider also gives free access to many websites using Facebook's "internet.org", but there is a huge uproar here because people say it violates something called "net neutrality"
Sarbajit Roy On 4/23/15, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Even though I secretly snicker when well-funded folks here worry about > the last nickel on their cell phone plans, I just got "skooled" by ATT > on this topic. > > I normally run a 1GB "family share" plan over 2 phones and pay a > whopping $120/month for this. My wife hardly uses HER phone at all and > my use can be sporadic (days without a call or txt) since we don't get > coverage at our house. I've dabbled with other options, the closest to > a good deal being "prepaid plans" from T-mobile but their data coverage > out of town seems weak (i.e. while I'm traveling where I use it as a > hotspot for my computer). A prepaid plan at $2/day for "unlimited > everything" comes out to about $120 for two phones if used every day. > Neither my wife nor I has the patience or willpower to leave our phones > off for days at a time and all it takes is a single incoming txt message > to trigger that day's charges... so on average we could do a little > better, but probably not much. > > I just checked my current data usage since when traveling I can rack up > 2-3 GB overages (@$20/GB) easily. In the process I discovered that > their 3GB "family share" plan quoted at $90/month. Of *course* the > prices are going down and the services are going up to be competitive, > and of *course* ATT wasn't going to tell me that automatically. > > I *think* I just saved $30/month on my basic plan and put myself close > if not entirely under the data limit when on the road... and if I > thought I needed 6GB regularly, I could now have *that* for the original > $120. > > So, I guess I understand why some here revisit their cell plans > regularly in what I previously felt was a bit of "first world > hand-wringing". I've probably forked over a few hundred dollars to ATT > in the last year or so, unnecessarily? > > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
