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Is it really cheap when buy phone with a plan?

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Walmart has a $45 plan with tmobile towers. I bought a used samsung s10+ last month and enjoy prepaid instead of post-paid plans. Unlimited everything, I download alot of stuff, it shows last month I downloaded 464gb, this month I'm going on 3.12tb downloaded over cell towers.
 
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Toothless said:
The data caps are literally because Comcast runs on Verizon. You have to pay more for unlimited and it just more money for Verizon.
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Hi,
Indeed but verizon/ at&t dumped all their pay by the gig plans and all are unlimited just so they can charge more knowing you don't need or want unlimited data
Phone minutes is still unlimited.
 
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ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Indeed but verizon/ at&t dumped all their pay by the gig plans and all are unlimited just so they can charge more knowing you don't need or want unlimited data
Phone minutes is still unlimited.
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The family data shared plans were causing too many issues with overages and having to keep a certain number of staff to explain this and that. When data is extremely cheap why not cut corners and make it all cheaper?

Talk and text will always be unlimited unless you're out of network or international. That's a given.
 
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ThrashZone said:
Hard to believe this because plans on verizon are as high as at&t's are and xfinity mobole is 25.us a month if you pay by the gig which is great because I don't use data on cell very much at all literally email stuff only anything else is local wifi data.
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I looked it up before I posted :) :):toast:
 
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Toothless said:
The family data shared plans were causing too many issues with overages and having to keep a certain number of staff to explain this and that. When data is extremely cheap why not cut corners and make it all cheaper?

Talk and text will always be unlimited unless you're out of network or international. That's a given.
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Hi,
Think they just throttle speed and get you that way lol
Either way I'd rather save the $$$ for something worth spending it on saving 35.us a month adds up fast thank you xfinity for not being tone deaf :cool:
 
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i buy smartphones in a shop and a seperate contract.

at the moment i have unlimited calls,SMS and 5GB LTE per Month for 6.99€
 
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GerKNG said:
i buy smartphones in a shop and a seperate contract.

at the moment i have unlimited calls,SMS and 5GB LTE per Month for 6.99€
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And you live in Eastern Europe? Like Romania or something?

I pay 12,50 EUR for unlimited calls/sms and 1 GB data.
 
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And you live in Eastern Europe? Like Romania or something?

I pay 12,50 EUR for unlimited calls/sms and 1 GB data.
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Germany.
 
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ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Think they just throttle speed and get you that way lol
Either way I'd rather save the $$$ for something worth spending it on saving 35.us a month adds up fast thank you xfinity for not being tone deaf :cool:
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They throttle when you go over because there was too many issues with the $15/1GB overages, and they were losing too many customers.

As for Xfinity, we bought our own router and went with the unlimited pack. Technically we're paying only $15 more for data since, well, not paying for renting their hardware.
 
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