81–90 of 106 posts
Imagine how much of an advantage it'd be to only enforce a 1 year contract. That'd be a huge differentiator, as it would allow you to upgrade your iPhone on it's yearly release. I'm sure that would cause a massive switch in carriers for Apple fans.
Or just buy it unlocked and use Straight Talk (which is AT&T).
Currently I pay about $17/month but if I wanted unlimited everything I could get it for $32/month.
We don't pay to receive calls or texts however so there is little need to have "unlimited" either. Even the thought that I am paying for advertisers to send me junk text messages or calls would drive me insane, if I was in the US.
The US and Canada really have it rough with mobile and internet services...
Looks like there's no competition here - Verizon is dominant. Even when it comes to price, they're not much more expensive, and actually cheaper if you've got 3+ members on a family plan.
Looks like AT&T is still the only option for simultaneous voice+data, though, due to antenna limitations: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/still-no-simultaneous-v...
Looks like there's no competition here - Verizon is dominant. Even when it comes to price, they're not much more expensive, and actually cheaper if you've got 3+ members on a family plan.
Even if you use a lot of data? Seems like Sprint would be the best choice in that case.
This is cool but if you could, please add prepaid? Specifically add the following? - 4th column for StraighTalk as one of the carriers - 5th column for Tmobile as one of the carriers) - Cost to buy iphone (199 normally, but full price prepaid) - Cost over the entire life of the plan See: - Tmobile: http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/10/t-mobile-unveils-its-big-plans... - StraighTalk: http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/30/review-the-…
There's no point in adding Straight Talk at this time because official word (via their Twitter) is that they do not have nano SIMs and they have no (announce-able) plans to sell nano SIMs at this time. Micro-SIMs cannot be cut down to nano-SIM dimensions and be used.
Americans pay a LOT for their cellular service. I mean $100/month is just absolutely insane. Currently I pay about $17/month but if I wanted unlimited everything I could get it for $32/month. We don't pay to receive calls or texts however so there is little need to have "unlimited" either. Even the thought that I am paying for advertisers to send me junk text messages or calls would drive me insane, if I was in the U…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I felt that was a disingenuous part of the chart. The author said that FaceTime only worked over cellular for AT&T when you moved to a shared data plan, but always worked on Verizon. That's technically true, but only really because Verizon won't offer customers subsidized pricing without moving to a shared data plan. From Verizon's perspective, if you pay their post-pay rates and bring your own iPhone, you're paying…
That $18.75/month buys you much more than unlimited data, if it's a truly unlocked phone.
Americans pay a LOT for their cellular service. I mean $100/month is just absolutely insane. Currently I pay about $17/month but if I wanted unlimited everything I could get it for $32/month. We don't pay to receive calls or texts however so there is little need to have "unlimited" either. Even the thought that I am paying for advertisers to send me junk text messages or calls would drive me insane, if I was in the U…
Looking on here:
http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phone/pay_monthly/24_months/Medi...
It looks like the cost is $70/month for unlimited text/voice and 1 GB of data. That doesn't seem much cheaper at all to me.