[ale] Living without a data plan how feasible is it

[Todor Fassl]

I got a refurbished iPhone 4S from Ting. My bill has been $15 each month 
so far ($6 subscription, $3 for up to 100 minutes of voice, $3 for up to 
100 messages, and $3 for up to 100Gb). I've never been particularly 
close to going over the 100 limit on any of the 3 things. I don't know 
what happens if you do go over. I mean, I don't even know what the next 
payment level is.

Yeah, I like ting.



On 10/22/14 13:50, David Ritchie wrote:
> We have been happy with Ting (sprint Network, BYOD) for my son (bought a
> used Samsung Galaxy S3 device off of glyde.com) .  First bill was $25ish.
> $6/mo for basic line, everything else is pay as you go. This is probably
> better with mutliple lines (plan is next to move wife's Virgin Mobile
> account over to Ting, but will probably need to get another phone if VM
> won't unlock her prepaid one.)
>
> -- David
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Calvin Harrigan <calvin.harrigan at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>   +1 for T-Mobile, especially for international travel.  Unlimited text,
>> data, 20cents per minute back to the states from over 120 countries.
>> Coverage oversees was surprisingly good.  No surprises, bill was exactly as
>> expected.
>>
>>
>> On 10/17/2014 10:56 AM, Greg Clifton wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>   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.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/17/2014 08:42 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>>>> +1 for T-Mobile.  Buy your phone used on swappa (http://swappa.com ).
>>> A BYOD
>>>> no-contract plan is currently $68 a month with 3 GB of data.
>>> t-mobile has daily unlimited plans for pay-as-you-go people for either
>>> $2/day or
>>> $3/day for 3G. These have unlimited talk+text+data (though 2G data is
>>> limiting
>>> and non-secure alone).  If you don't need the phone too much, enabling
>>> that from
>>> the normal P-A-Y-G plan can save $$$hundreds yearly.  If you have wifi
>>> everywhere, do you really **need** data when around ATL?
>>>
>>> On travel, I enable 2G t-mobile for the 7 days I need it. $14 - not bad.
>>> In a
>>> new city or one I haven't been in recently, it is convenient and saves
>>> hassles.
>>>
>>> Paying 10x more for convenience has always been the way of the world. No
>>> different with cell phones, just like getting a 7-Eleven candy bar is more
>>> expensive than walmart or a beer at the GA-Dome.
>>>
>>> Of course, some people need the "status" for their jobs and I completely
>>> understand that. After all, if you can't afford $1200/yr for a family
>>> cell phone
>>> plan, why should I let you install and configure $4M worth of equipment
>>> into my
>>> business?
>>>
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