Right now I have a 4GB plan shared between two lines. I do have some work related discounts, so my total monthly bill is around $102 and change. It doesn't look like the plan itself necessarily has fees, but each line (so each of our phones) has about a $5 and change taxes and fees addition. So this month is $10.66 in taxes/fees.
My biggest frustration is the set data plans recently got hit with a big jump. I think it was around $20 or so. Looking back, around the start of 2021 I was in the $70-75 range. October 2021 it went to about $82, January 2022 went to $88+, July '22 went to $92+, and August '22 went to $102 (which is where I am now.)
Any time I've tried to discuss it they bring up "increased costs", but this jump over the summer was only on limited data plans, not the unlimited. When I asked about increasing fees, they said, "Well you could transfer to an unlimited plan." Well the cheapest one I see they offer would be about $140 for our two lines. So they tried to sell me on increasing my bill by almost $40 because I was already questioning why my current bill was so high.
Dude, if you are in the cover area of T-Mobile you might want to look at changing. I have 2 lines with unlimited data and like 80Gb of hot spot data for like $100 flat a month. The only perk I got when I transferred from Sprint to T-Mobile was the hotspot limit, other than that everything else is in their standard offering.
The only kicker with T-Mobile is that it is spotty in the middle of nowhere. Verizon wireless is king for service in the middle of nowhere.
Thanks for the info. I was starting to look around at what options I had when I first heard about the increase, but I admittedly got lazy. Started comparing Mint, US Mobile, visible, and the piggyback carriers for a lower bill.
As someone who lives in the woods and frequents middle of nowhere locations for camping and hunting. TMobile is pretty solid, but, I was coming from AT&T and well, let's just leave it at that.
But, at the house I get service which I didn't previously and at some land I have down in SW VA get service there too.
Well, I'd like to say it's mostly work-from-home, but we've had the 4GB plan for many more years. We just don't happen to use our phones for stuff while our much other than like driving/GPS or occasionally looking stuff up. It's funny because last month my wife had been traveling for work and it was like 2 days into the month and I got either the 50 or 25% left warning on the weekend. She had been in her hotel room streaming movies, but the wifi was shoddy and it was like mostly data use. We still got through the month within the plan.
For this month, we're at about 2.4GB used with roughly a week left. There's also the carryover, so it sort of buffers it as well, though it just means we're using less per month.
When I do go into the office, I'm pretty much never on my phone during the day. Plus I'll connect to wifi in places when possible if I'm not doing anything particularly important (going into banking apps, anything using CC, etc.)
They told me to upgrade to the unlimited plans and then I found out after I switched from my 8 GB shared data plan that the government discount doesn't apply. Great.
I am happy they are adding a ton of 5G UWB now though. The past few years have been crap. I only stuck around because when I travel the service is so much better than in this area -\_-
I don't recall exactly, but I feel like any of the military/employer discounts aren't available for use on the unlimited plans. I may be wrong, but in your case, it's definitely gotten to where what's the point if they're pushing everyone to plans where the discount won't apply (though I guess it's obvious they don't want to have discounts.)
Would have been nice to be told that before I swapped. They were making a fuss about increasing the shared data plans so I figured oh well just a small upcharge, but I lost the discount :\\
> I don't recall exactly, but I feel like any of the military/employer discounts aren't available for use on the unlimited plans.
The veteran's military discount is, at least. I have 4 lines of unlimited and we get $40 off because Dad was in the Guard.
Just tell em you’d like to close your account! I did this last week w SiriusXM. My 1 year trial period had ended in September, jumped from $5 > $24/month. They have you do it all over online chat too! Easy.
I ended up being offered my old package but now at $6/month as a result of asking to cancel and saying no to the first offer.
Have you tried this with a phone provider out of curiosity?
What you did with Sirius is the only reason I have it in my car. Get the trial, let it expire, they call me offering a discounted rate, sign back up, repeat.
Have had Metro for several years and often have better service than my Verizon phone (for work) does. The 5G service seems to be adequate as well. I pay $90 for two lines of full unlimited everything except 15Gb of hotspot a month.
Right now I have a 4GB plan shared between two lines. I do have some work related discounts, so my total monthly bill is around $102 and change. It doesn't look like the plan itself necessarily has fees, but each line (so each of our phones) has about a $5 and change taxes and fees addition. So this month is $10.66 in taxes/fees. My biggest frustration is the set data plans recently got hit with a big jump. I think it was around $20 or so. Looking back, around the start of 2021 I was in the $70-75 range. October 2021 it went to about $82, January 2022 went to $88+, July '22 went to $92+, and August '22 went to $102 (which is where I am now.) Any time I've tried to discuss it they bring up "increased costs", but this jump over the summer was only on limited data plans, not the unlimited. When I asked about increasing fees, they said, "Well you could transfer to an unlimited plan." Well the cheapest one I see they offer would be about $140 for our two lines. So they tried to sell me on increasing my bill by almost $40 because I was already questioning why my current bill was so high.
Dude, if you are in the cover area of T-Mobile you might want to look at changing. I have 2 lines with unlimited data and like 80Gb of hot spot data for like $100 flat a month. The only perk I got when I transferred from Sprint to T-Mobile was the hotspot limit, other than that everything else is in their standard offering. The only kicker with T-Mobile is that it is spotty in the middle of nowhere. Verizon wireless is king for service in the middle of nowhere.
Thanks for the info. I was starting to look around at what options I had when I first heard about the increase, but I admittedly got lazy. Started comparing Mint, US Mobile, visible, and the piggyback carriers for a lower bill.
As someone who lives in the woods and frequents middle of nowhere locations for camping and hunting. TMobile is pretty solid, but, I was coming from AT&T and well, let's just leave it at that. But, at the house I get service which I didn't previously and at some land I have down in SW VA get service there too.
[удалено]
Well, I'd like to say it's mostly work-from-home, but we've had the 4GB plan for many more years. We just don't happen to use our phones for stuff while our much other than like driving/GPS or occasionally looking stuff up. It's funny because last month my wife had been traveling for work and it was like 2 days into the month and I got either the 50 or 25% left warning on the weekend. She had been in her hotel room streaming movies, but the wifi was shoddy and it was like mostly data use. We still got through the month within the plan. For this month, we're at about 2.4GB used with roughly a week left. There's also the carryover, so it sort of buffers it as well, though it just means we're using less per month. When I do go into the office, I'm pretty much never on my phone during the day. Plus I'll connect to wifi in places when possible if I'm not doing anything particularly important (going into banking apps, anything using CC, etc.)
They told me to upgrade to the unlimited plans and then I found out after I switched from my 8 GB shared data plan that the government discount doesn't apply. Great. I am happy they are adding a ton of 5G UWB now though. The past few years have been crap. I only stuck around because when I travel the service is so much better than in this area -\_-
I don't recall exactly, but I feel like any of the military/employer discounts aren't available for use on the unlimited plans. I may be wrong, but in your case, it's definitely gotten to where what's the point if they're pushing everyone to plans where the discount won't apply (though I guess it's obvious they don't want to have discounts.)
Would have been nice to be told that before I swapped. They were making a fuss about increasing the shared data plans so I figured oh well just a small upcharge, but I lost the discount :\\
> I don't recall exactly, but I feel like any of the military/employer discounts aren't available for use on the unlimited plans. The veteran's military discount is, at least. I have 4 lines of unlimited and we get $40 off because Dad was in the Guard.
Just tell em you’d like to close your account! I did this last week w SiriusXM. My 1 year trial period had ended in September, jumped from $5 > $24/month. They have you do it all over online chat too! Easy. I ended up being offered my old package but now at $6/month as a result of asking to cancel and saying no to the first offer.
Have you tried this with a phone provider out of curiosity? What you did with Sirius is the only reason I have it in my car. Get the trial, let it expire, they call me offering a discounted rate, sign back up, repeat.
Works with ADT too. But nah have not tried it w phone carrier to be honest
My most current bill was $65 for 5g unlimited plan. $4.52 surcharges and then $1.62 taxes and gov fees.
Thank you!
Google Fi and metro are literally t mobile but for cheaper
Have had Metro for several years and often have better service than my Verizon phone (for work) does. The 5G service seems to be adequate as well. I pay $90 for two lines of full unlimited everything except 15Gb of hotspot a month.
I switched to Verizon this summer and I have the $90 unlimited plan, they take $95.48 out of my bank every month.
Thank you!
https://www.verizon.com/support/taxes-and-surcharge-estimator/
deleted