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Joeboo

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Because when you sit down and realize you are spending 2 grand a year on cell service, it punches you in the gut. Not to mention any additional cost of purchasing new phones.

My cell phone bill is my largest bill each month, which is ridiculous when you think about it. It's more than my electric bill in the summer, it's more than my gas bill in the winter, and it's mroe than my TV/internet service.

I use the goddamned thing constantly though, it's always with me, everywhere, home & away from home. Can't imagine not having it, so I guess it's worth it.
 
mkopec

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Like I said, they got you by the balls now that you are hooked. But ask yourself this, do you honestly need the smartphone? I mean like really need it? Could you survive with just a dumb flip phone?

Lately I am hearing many people in my circle being fed up by the prices though. So we will see....
 
Noodleface

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The problem with dumb phones now is they barely make any at all. Seriously, if you go to the Verizon store you'll be lucky if you have 2 to choose from, and one of those is probably one of those old people jitterbug phones.
 
Deathwing

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Dead zone at my house(yeah, I'll pay you $250 to fix your problem, VZW), my wife and I use ~0.4GB per month combined, hardly any minutes. She's definitely heavy on the texts, maybe 2k/month. But I know how those work, there's hardly any cost involved in transmitting those. They are certainly not taking up any precious cell bandwidth. 3G in my area is dirt fucking slow. Half the time a page times out before finishing loading. "LTE" is 10mpbs at best and drain the fuck out of your battery if you leave the radio on(I realize this is part hardware).

So, yeah, I feel fucking great that I'm paying $155 a month for this shit service. That's after a 22% discount. I'd go with a ATT reseller if they existed anymore. Definitely can't trust tmo out here(ithaca).
 
Joeboo

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The obvious answer is we just need Google to blanket the planet with Fiber & Wifi based off of that fiber, and offer cell phones that run purely off of google voice for like $50 a month with unlimited data. They'd instantly crush every cell carrier out there. Hurry up Google!
 
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My T-Mobile $30 plan roams onto AT&T's network.
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Edge?

I know not all places have that. I recall reading on Howard forums that they have been letting their roaming agreements lapse in many areas.

I tried T-Mobile here and the service was really spotty. I'd love to pay just for data I don't need voice at all.
 
Deathwing

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Not that I don't trust you, but do you mind posting some documentation/proof of that? I'd more seriously consider tmo if their(all?) plans roamed on AT&T. Might actually be able to do an all-data plan I've dreamed of.
 
Tarrant

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mkopec_sl said:
Like I said, they got you by the balls now that you are hooked. But ask yourself this, do you honestly need the smartphone? I mean like really need it? Could you survive with just a dumb flip phone?

Lately I am hearing many people in my circle being fed up by the prices though. So we will see....
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I do need a smart phone for work
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I had T-Mobile 3 years ago and I never roamed onto ATT, I got into a car accident and I was in the middle of no where in a Verizon/ATT dominated area and I had zero signal. It sucked.
 
opiate82

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Sorry the only time it has happened for me was when I was 3+ hours away from my house at one of my favorite campsites. Not driving back out there just to get a screencap for you.
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I was very surprised when I saw AT&T where the provider is displayed on the lock screen because I did not know that my plan would roam on AT&T. I was in the middle of a national forest and only had enough service to fire off some texts.
 
mkopec

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Tarrant_sl said:
I do need a smart phone for work
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I had T-Mobile 3 years ago and I never roamed onto ATT, I got into a car accident and I was in the middle of no where in a Verizon/ATT dominated area and I had zero signal. It sucked.
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If you need a smartphone for work, they should be paying for it. Or at least let you expense some of it. Its only right. I know if my work required a smartphone that shit would be paid for. I know my managers get iphone 5s with full service paid for.
 
Tarrant

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Technically I don't NEED it, but if I want to have 24 access to my work email and continue to be a top performer then I need a smart phone.
 
mkopec

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That sucks man. I get to leave my work at work, most of the time. During severe emergencies I do have to do some work at home, but never more than a few weeks out of the year. Anyway, cant you make a case to your management to expense it or at least some of the cost? Sounds to me like you have a good case to make.
 
Tarrant

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mkopec_sl said:
That sucks man. I get to leave my work at work, most of the time. During severe emergencies I do have to do some work at home, but never more than a few weeks out of the year. Anyway, cant you make a case to your management to expense it or at least some of the cost? Sounds to me like you have a good case to make.
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Nope, they don't care. I've found that out this last month. They dont care about anyone.
 
Eomer

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Tarrant_sl said:
Nope, they don't care. I've found that out this last month. They dont care about anyone.
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That sucks. We just canceled all of our company phones and moved to instead reimbursing everyone who had one previously $70/month to cover work usage. In reality I doubt that for most guys the work usage is more than even a couple dozen bucks a month, all they'll have to do is bump their already existing plans a bit to cover the extra minutes (we hardly use any data, the couple office guys who do use more are reimbursed more). So they get to put the rest in their pocket, tax free. That aside, it just works better for everyone. They can have whatever handset they want, and I don't have to worry about administering 20+ phones, changing them around when someone quits or a new guy needs one, etc etc.
 
Noodleface

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For my job it's either bring it home with you or stay until 1AM answering emails from all the people that work in CA.
 
Falstaff

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My wife and I are on a family plan with my parents because it's so cheap (AT&T). I just write my dad a check a couple times a year to cover our portion.
 
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