# Help a first-time cell phone buyer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-first-time-cell-phone-buyer/541117>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 28, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-first-time-cell-phone-buyer/541117 "2010-05-28T21:39:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-first-time-cell-phone-buyer/541117/21 "2010-06-03T16:53:15Z")

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> [@Mama\_Zappa](#):
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> Yikes! Why was your iPhone bill so large? I’m thinking that 30 bucks for data, plus another 30-40 bucks for the voice plan, maybe a texting bundle, but overall certainly less than 100 bucks for the month. Did you have some sort of overages?

Long story. Overages, I upgraded my plan, AT&T has no record of it, etc.

For the record, I have to get off the AT&T network because we just moved and the coverage here is abyssmal, so my iPhone is soon going to be nothing more than an iTouch/alarm clock. Gonna have to go to the Droid or BB.

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