What do you pay for your cellular service?
What do you pay for your cellular service?
Which country, how much a month, what's the plan include?
£1 monthly. Unlimited data/SMS/voice. It's a trial offer of 6-8 months but with a little juggling you can keep the trail much longer. I've had mine for about 4 years now
:O
Where did you get this??
Which company?
Canada. $39.55 CAD per month (approximately 25€). Plan includes unlimited calling and text in Canada, US and Mexico, 75GB of data at 5G. Also includes roaming to over 100 countries, but limited to 10GB of data. Calling and texts are unlimited in the country where you roam. So for example, if you’re in Italy, it doesn’t cost anything to call or text Italian numbers, but if you were to call or text Japan, there would be a charge.
Hey fellow Canadian. I pay about the same. Looking at these other responses, I think we're getting screwed.
I pay $27.12 (taxes in) for more data than I need per month (~12GB). Grandfathered Freedom Mobile plan.
Legit. I had another plan with Rogers for over a year which was 75GB at 5G, Canada/US, and that was $25 CAD a month. Once the temp discounts ended, it was up to $35, and I had some travel planned, at which point i just hopped on the Freedom Roam Beyond plan. But yeah, we are definitely getting screwed haha.
$120aud /yr with catchmobile. 120gb of 4g data, unlimited calls / Sms.
$15 a month, but you have to pay in chunks of 3 months at a time, so $45 every 3 months. Mint mobile, US.
But what do you get for that money?
5 gigs of data and unlimited text and calling. I’m on wifi probably 95% of the time and download songs/playlists instead of streaming if I’m out and about. I don’t think I’ve used over a gig a month so far.
France, 19.99€, unlimited data + calls + text, 35 GB/mo roaming in all of Europe and other countries
Same plan but 10€ since I'm also a fiber subscriber.
Same provider but I'm paying 6€/months for unlimited calls, text and 40Go of 4G data.
What speeds do you get?
5G, also when roaming internationally. Data is not unlimited in my case because i don't subscribe to their home internet offer, but 350 GB is functionally unlimited for me, I never reach 50 GB in a month. DSL/Fiber Subscribers get unlimited data and pay only 9.99€ for mobile service.
speedtest:
- 5G on provider network: ⬇️ 200 MBps ⬆️ 66 MBps
- 5G international roaming: ⬇️ 100 MBps ⬆️ 32 MBps
In the US, I pay 23 dollars per month for 2 lines sharing 5 gigabytes of 5g data, unlimited talk and text through U.S. Mobile.
It's plenty because we are on WiFi most of the time.
UK, smarty, £8 per month unlimited texts and calls, 60Gb data per month.tethering included
LOL I pay about the same as you in Canada and get 256 mb ;-;
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Australia, boost mobile yearly prepaid plan. 365GB for 365 days costing $365 AUD ($200 EUR, $220 USD). So $1 a day. Unlimited local calls, no overseas calls or roaming.
Switzerland, 30.50 chf a month for unlimited calls sms and data in Switzerland and 40gb a month of roaming in Europe (but with a huge discount: regular price for this would be more than double)
How? Show me your ways...
Sunrise, waiting for the perfect time to get their offers. I also have my internet subscription wirh them, so I have an extra discount. But honestly, I'd prefer to change for Galaxus mobile or Wingo. Maybe try comparis, it can help even though this feels like a hostile environment full of predators trying to extort your money.
The Netherlands.
6€. Sim only. Unlimited calls and sms, 6GB 4G, later this year 5G.
I'm paying €10,50 / month for unlimited calling / 500 texts / 18 GB of data. Thats is with Simpel in the Netherlands.
Texting is not relevant here since everyone uses WhatsApp (and more recently Signal), and I've never actually used more then 18GB of data in a month.
USA, $17.50/month prepaid for a year: US Mobile Starter Unlimited (or whatever the lowest tier is called) gives 10 GB of high-speed data and then infinite 1 Mbps, which is faster than any other throttled speed (apart from Visible, but that's also costlier). I have a referral link for it that rewards both the referrer and referred.
Oh, and it gives infinite minutes and texts across all of North America, I think (Canada + Mexico), as well as access to all the major satellite networks, so if you don't like your AT&T service, you can order a SIM to try T-Mobile's, etc., all while still on the same US Mobile plan; they advertise themselves as a "supercarrier" accordingly.
US, $8 a month, prepaid, 100 MB, 100min/text
~$12 CAD. Barely any data (I think 256 mb?), but unlimited call and text. I never really use data unless I'm in a new place, and even then I rarely use more than that.
Portugal, €5/month, 100GB of data connection, 5000 call minutes. I'm supposed to pay one cent per sms but I have yet to be charged.
Italy, 10.99€ a month, 160 gigs 5G, 100 texts, unlimited minutes
US, Xfinity Mobile,$60 for 2 lines, unlimited talk, text and 5g data but you do have to have another Xfinity service to be able to buy their mobile.
Nothing - my employer pays for it - but if I was paying myself it would be $85NZD/month for 150GB 5G data, unlimited text and calling to NZ and Australia
US, $25/month through Visible for unlimited call, text, and data
Aus, I have 2. $30/m for 15gb and then unlimited at 1.5mbps, but bad signal. $70/m for 180gb then unlimited at 1.5mbps but I can't actually use that much due to bad signal even if it isn't as bad as the other one.
Russia, $13 (1100 rubles), unlimited data, rest not included
United States. $106/month for 3 lines of unlimited data
Switzerland, equivalent of approx. US$ 16. unlimited 5G data, calls and SMS in Switzerland. 3GB data roaming in EU.
i buy limited data plans that i have to call something like 5556466345666782117909# ,usually 8€ in Estonia
My employer pays for mine, so free.
Before that was $20/month for unlimited everything with tethering in the US.
US, about $45/month for Google Fi. Switched to it years ago because it was unlimited in all of North America, but it looks like maybe I should do some research on another carrier
Same
€10 per year or something. Ancient deal without internet that is impossible to beat price wise.
I have a dual sim phone and work gave me a sim card and I'm using their internet when I have to.
$17/month with Tello in the US. Unlimited calls and texts and 10gb data. It’s reliable and I never hit the 10gb limit.
£7 for 30gb of data, EU roaming and all the calls + texts I want.
Cambodia. I pay $6 a month for 50gb data. This is 4g service. Only thing we have now but it's rock solid service and gossip about 5g has been around awhile. We have three providers here. Each charge about the same.
I use services that sell my data so that I get free cellular service. One I use is 250mb free, the other is 3GB + calls free
US. About $35/ month
Text calling, and unlimited data
Japan.
¥968/month (around $6 USD) for up to 3GB with free calls.
If I use more, the price changes automatically — ¥2,068 for 3–20GB, and ¥3,168 if I go over 20GB.I usually buy an e-sim when I'm traveling and you can get usually get 10-20$/mo unlimited data at reasonable speeds everywhere in Asia except China which is an entire different world of its own and really not worth the hassle so you take what you can get.
One exception is Thailand where I buy 1 year prepaid sim for 40$ unlimited 100mbps which you can keep extending year after year for almost the same price.
All of these prices are irrelevant without considering local salaries but cellular data is really good in Asia. I've seen cell towers deep in Vietnams jungles and was actually texting from a cave there. This is why low orbit networks like starlink are severely overrated and will always lose to cell towers.
terrestrial towers are great where there are more people than there would need to be towers and where towers are allowed to be built, getting towers installed in national parks is hard and building them in the middle of nowhere has almost no return on investment, satelite networks could fill this niche where the only current option is wildly expensive satilite phones by Garmin and the likes.
Nah towers are incredibly cheap and can be easily maintained for decades if not centuries. Quick googling around seems like 1 modern towers costs 100k (in the west) usd compared that to entire satellite and launch overhead which seems to be at least 3.5M tho in reality much more. Thats 35 towers for 1 satellite not even considering maintenance and longevity.
Towers are also straight up superior tech that will forver be better than satellites due to simple distance physics.
Rough quick napkin math: earth's land area is 140m km² and 3g tower can cover 300km² as best - to cover THE ENTIRE EARTH we'd only need 500k towers. That's like nothing.
That's 50 Billion usd without the infrastructure and cable overhead ofc but the towers and obviously we'd want play it safer on range so 10x that and it's still only half a trillion.Low orbit satellites are inferior tech that is only good for extreme situations like ocean coverage.
7EUR for 8GB of internet.
Germany - 20€/month, 100GB of 5G data in Germany and all of Europe, unlimited calls and texts, roaming to Switzerland is not included though
35CHF for unlimited 5G, text and calls in Switzerland and Europe. 39CHF for 10GB fibre at home.
Ireland, 20 euro for a month of unlimited data, no throttling (that I've noticed), unlimited calls and texts in Ireland and enough EU ones that I don't worry about it.
With Smarty in the UK I pay £6 for 8GB monthly and my partner pays £7.20 for 16GB
Only issue I have is that it uses the 3 network and we both get shitty reception in the Yorkshire dales whenever we visit there
Germany Fraenk.de 19 GB 10 € unlimited calls and texts D1 Network
Sign up using my referral code for an extra 3 GB per month for free. JRGB319
It’s an eSIM contract and super fast to sign up. Can be cancelled every month.
US. $1-2/month for global pay as you go data for as low as $1.15/GB (https://silent.link/ data-only esim). $5/month for my virtual https://jmp.chat/ phone number.
US, $75 per 3 months, 5GB data and unlimited talk and text. Mint Mobile. The Ryan Reynolds phone company.
USD $200 for eight lines with unlimited data, calls, text; international coverage only for texting. So it works out to $25 each but I don't think we could get that price on fewer lines. Large family.
18€, 20GB data in all of EU, unlimited voice and SMS
Edit: France
I see some people get by with a tiny bit of data. Is that because you have wifi at home and work. I have no WiFi at work so I got through a lot of data.
Italy, 8€/mo., 100GB data (5GB if travelling in EU), unlimited calls and SMSs
66.58 CHF (80.51 USD) for Unlimited everything in Switzerland. Internet is another 66.58 CHF a month.
20€/month, Germany, started the plan half a year ago, will be over in one and a half. Unlimited SMS/calls, 35GB (at least, maybe even more, I don't use nearly as much) data. Got a (carrier unlocked, because we're not in the US) Pixel 8 Pro with it.
$120 for three lines with unlimited 5G internet + calls/texts (slower speeds after 50GB but still pretty fast). Also free roaming and calls/texts/internet while in Canada and Mexico.
Definitely not the best, but also not the worst.
- Japan.
- JPY 980 per month.
- Plan includes up to 3GB per month 4g/5g data, and when going over 3GB, the data cap increases to 20GB for an additional JPY 1000. Unlimited voice and text, global roaming to 90 countries included.
Still don't get bars inside some big buildings though :p
Sounds like Rakuten!
UK, £10/mo 120G data, all you can eat voice/SMS (was an offer on smarty)
I don't pay myself, but it's about 7€ I think. Portugal.
US currently $10/mo for unlimited phone/text, 1gb data. I can switch it to Unlimited data for $25/mo
Tello
Yeah I had tello for a while but went to usmobile to get $6/mo for 1g/mo but had to prepay for the whole year. I did 500mb/mo on tello for $8/mo.
Canada, 33$CAD a month for unlimited calls and texts and 2gb of data
Sweden. I pay 150 SEK (~16 USD) for 8GB/month.
Unused data is transferred over to the next month, so running out of data has never been a problem for me.
180/year on mint mobile, in the US
Paid yearly. 5gb of data but that's all I need.
USA, $9/mo. ($9.36 with taxes/fees) for unlimited talk/texts and 1GB data.
Net is £2 a month for 6gb data and unlimited calls and texts from O2, although I never use those really. It should be £6 a month, but I get £4 discounted as two streaming services I would buy anyway I buy via them so I get a discount for each.
Most places I use my phone I have WiFi, data is only really used for background services and maps otherwise. You can purchase data add ons from them for reasonable fees for a month if I ever did need it for travel. Although I am more likely to get a local sim as it's far far cheaper than roaming outside the EU normally.
The main reason I use O2 is that it also doubles my home broadband speed for free to 1gb up and down. That means having their phone line actually costs me -£6 a month.
I am looking to move my partners phone over later this year to O2 and thst should double the speed to 2gb up and down for the same price.