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Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Re: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Post by achille2 »

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-iphone-on-straight-...

Note: Since StraightTalk resells AT&T using their own antennas, the available service would be same. Correct?

Re: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Post by mason55 »

r00fus wrote: post #11

What about prepaid? I'm dying to find out if, say, Cricket or Virgin's iPhone5 plans will be any better - I'm willing to buy up front.

Has Virgin confirmed iPhone 5? The only one I've seen so far is Cricket. I'm just hoping that the $25 unlimited data & messaging with 300 minutes plan is available!

Re: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Post by mason55 »

achille2 wrote: post #41

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-…

Also Cricket/Leap Wireless which is the only iPhone 5 announced yet

Re: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Post by ryan_f »

tejaswiy wrote: post #36
w1ntermute wrote: post #4

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.

Verizon doesn't do rollover minutes month to month though which is very annoying.

The share everything plan for Verizon gives unlimited talk and text so there is no need for rollover minutes.

Re: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Post by jedbrown »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #32
kurtvarner wrote: post #8

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.

Imagine if they just gave you the phone, no contract. Someone is eating that cost. In the US, you get a subsidy on the phone, but you also get locked in. That's how the industry works and no one really does anything different (TMobile tried for a while).

If you buy the phone outright, T-mobile no-contract plans work out to cost less than subsidized contracts, as it should be. The other carriers want 2-year lock-in so bad that they refuse to offer different terms when you own the phone.

Re: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Post by reagan83 »

His AT&T pricing is inaccurate (he is reporting it too low). This looks like a great comparison chart, but the first thing that jumped out at me was the low prices he used for his analysis. After doing my own research it turns out his #'s for w/1 phone is wrong, w/2 phones it's even more wrong, etc.

Re: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Post by iigs »

prophetjohn wrote: post #39
iigs wrote: post #37

Does anyone have info on the Sprint tethering pricing listed here? I don't see it on their site or a Google search, and the existence of such would be very compelling for me (obnoxious overage price notwithstanding).

They had the info when I was checking out. I don't remember the specific amounts of data, but the rates were +$20 and +$50 per month to your plan.

I saw that as well... 2 and 6 gb. I understood the infographic to mean a base amount of tethering data was free per month, which sure isn't how it looks on Sprint's site.

Re: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

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Post by prophetjohn »

iigs wrote: post #48
prophetjohn wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had the info when I was checking out. I don't remember the specific amounts of data, but the rates were +$20 and +$50 per month to your plan.

I saw that as well... 2 and 6 gb. I understood the infographic to mean a base amount of tethering data was free per month, which sure isn't how it looks on Sprint's site.

I also interpreted the infographic to mean that you can tether up to 5GB per month for free, but I think that's incorrect.
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