<div dir="ltr">For some cheap plans, also consider Republic Wireless. They run on Sprint Network, which seems to have pretty good coverage. You can only use the phones that they sell, because they set the phones to ALWAYS prefer WiFi. Then when you in a WiFi free zone, you can talk on the Sprint network. This allows them to offer some very low priced plans (incluing data) since you are rarely actually using Sprint's bandwidth. If you are mostly in the city, you should haved no concerns about either WiFi or Sprint coverage. The wife was on Sprint via Kroger's iWireless for a couple of years, and we found that the coverage was pretty good even out in the boonies.<div><br></div><div>If you travel outside the USA, T-Mobile is definitely the way to go, no data roaming charges. They also have a 4 phones for $100/month plan, inclusive of unlimited talk, text and ample data for most mere mortals.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 10/17/2014 08:42 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:<br>
> +1 for T-Mobile. Buy your phone used on swappa (<a href="http://swappa.com" target="_blank">http://swappa.com</a> ). A BYOD<br>
> no-contract plan is currently $68 a month with 3 GB of data.<br>
<br>
</span>t-mobile has daily unlimited plans for pay-as-you-go people for either $2/day or<br>
$3/day for 3G. These have unlimited talk+text+data (though 2G data is limiting<br>
and non-secure alone). If you don't need the phone too much, enabling that from<br>
the normal P-A-Y-G plan can save $$$hundreds yearly. If you have wifi<br>
everywhere, do you really **need** data when around ATL?<br>
<br>
On travel, I enable 2G t-mobile for the 7 days I need it. $14 - not bad. In a<br>
new city or one I haven't been in recently, it is convenient and saves hassles.<br>
<br>
Paying 10x more for convenience has always been the way of the world. No<br>
different with cell phones, just like getting a 7-Eleven candy bar is more<br>
expensive than walmart or a beer at the GA-Dome.<br>
<br>
Of course, some people need the "status" for their jobs and I completely<br>
understand that. After all, if you can't afford $1200/yr for a family cell phone<br>
plan, why should I let you install and configure $4M worth of equipment into my<br>
business?<br>
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