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As a few of you know, I think my current cell phone is gradually failing. I can still use it, but I can only use it now on speaker phone. So I turn the speaker phone down to a reasonable volume and use it like a "standard" phone.
Anyway, I'm not a customer who spends a ton of money (comparatively) on my cell plan. My wife and I, combined, have a cell bill of just around $75 to $80 per month. And that's with no data.
I've been looking at data plans and phones. I would really like an unlimited plan, but even through my current carrier that's around $100/month, before fees & taxes, and the monthly price of the phone.
The smaller data plans (it's 4G up to X number of GB, then they throttle you back to 2G) are obviously less expensive (but not necessarily less expensive per GB), but have these "access fees" of $25 per line.
So even if I went with the 1GB plan, that's still going to be $50 (line access fees), $20 or so for the plan itself, and $15-$20 in other taxes and fees. So that by itself is going to put me between $80 and $90/month.
For things like this, 1GB doesn't seem like much at all. I'm not sure what I'd be using the data for (probably just checking email and maybe downloading a few apps), but 1GB per month doesn't seem like a lot, even if my wife tells me she's not going to really be using any data.
So I guess the question is this: I know it doesn't count for much that I've been a customer of QuickRun for years. It's probably not helpful that I only pay $75 or $80/month for their service. It's probably not helpful that I don't want a "family plan" with 4 cell phones or whatever. It's also probably not helpful (and probably still in their computer system) that my wife yelled at them when she was 9 months pregnant, over 11 years ago.
So is there anything I could ask for them to waive? Because even the minimum price per month for a phone that I found ($5, though I really want a Galaxy S7) still pushes me toward the $90/month thing.
I just can't really get past the $50 in access fees. I think I'd rather have extra data available.
Any thoughts?
Anyway, I'm not a customer who spends a ton of money (comparatively) on my cell plan. My wife and I, combined, have a cell bill of just around $75 to $80 per month. And that's with no data.
I've been looking at data plans and phones. I would really like an unlimited plan, but even through my current carrier that's around $100/month, before fees & taxes, and the monthly price of the phone.
The smaller data plans (it's 4G up to X number of GB, then they throttle you back to 2G) are obviously less expensive (but not necessarily less expensive per GB), but have these "access fees" of $25 per line.
So even if I went with the 1GB plan, that's still going to be $50 (line access fees), $20 or so for the plan itself, and $15-$20 in other taxes and fees. So that by itself is going to put me between $80 and $90/month.
For things like this, 1GB doesn't seem like much at all. I'm not sure what I'd be using the data for (probably just checking email and maybe downloading a few apps), but 1GB per month doesn't seem like a lot, even if my wife tells me she's not going to really be using any data.
So I guess the question is this: I know it doesn't count for much that I've been a customer of QuickRun for years. It's probably not helpful that I only pay $75 or $80/month for their service. It's probably not helpful that I don't want a "family plan" with 4 cell phones or whatever. It's also probably not helpful (and probably still in their computer system) that my wife yelled at them when she was 9 months pregnant, over 11 years ago.
So is there anything I could ask for them to waive? Because even the minimum price per month for a phone that I found ($5, though I really want a Galaxy S7) still pushes me toward the $90/month thing.
I just can't really get past the $50 in access fees. I think I'd rather have extra data available.
Any thoughts?
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