I have a pay-as-you-go plan through AT&T. I refill it $100 at a time and I don’t think I’ve refilled it more than once a year so far.
I really want a smartphone so I can be looking stuff up all the time and playing with apps. Oh, and text. I can text with mine but it’s oldschool, no keyboard, so it’s a pain in the ass and I never use it. Plus, with my plan, a text costs more than a minute-long call! I can’t really justify the cost of upgrading to a smartphone, though. I don’t need one. But the peer pressure and the “ooh, shiny new technology” pressure are getting to me.
Hmm, I selected $60 and under but I forgot we recently increased our minutes.
$45/month for 700 minutes (which can be shared since it’s a family plan) and 6gb of data
$20/month for the Iphone value pack which includes visual voicemail, call display, unlimited text messaging.
$4/month for US and international text messaging (limit of 25 in and out)
Including taxes it’s $80/month
I have pay as you go from Virgin Mobile and it’s a bit more than the other poster’s experiences with PAYGO, as I have to “top up” a bit more than once every two months for $20 a pop. So it’s really only around $15 a month. But it’s my only phone, so it’s really cheap when you consider that.
£28/month for a HTC Wildfire on 3’s One Plan, which includes thousands of minutes and texts I never use up and unlimited internet data - I use my phone to read news and send/receive emails a lot.
$26/mo as one of 5 people on a non-data family plan from Verizon. We share something like 1000 mins, which includes texts. Thanks to the “My Circle” and Nights & Weekends, we never go over our minutes even though my SIL and brother use their phones constantly.
Four of the 5 people on our plan are home all day (two retired and me and bro work from home) so there’s never been a reason to have a data plan.
Smartphone pay-as-you-go on T-Mobile. $100 for 1000 minutes that last for a year. When I need it, Internet access is $1.50 per day for unlimited access.
What makes this work is that we work from home and don’t do much daily traveling. So we rarely have to refill (maybe once a year), and with wireless connectivity built into the phone, important things (e.g., calendar) update automatically in the house when we add something on the fly.
We have three lines via a family plan through Sprint; 1500 min (pooled) and unlimited data/text/other stuff. I do get a significant discount because I work for a company which does a ton of business with Sprint, but the package price would average (just) under $60/line even without that discount.
I have a pay-as-you-go phone that’s designed mainly for “emergency” use. It sometimes gets used for extremely minor emergencies, but it’s not kept on most of the time. I pay something like $100 a year to keep it active, and have far more credit than I ever expect to use.
I have a smartphone with unlimited text, “unlimited” data (actually 50GB I think), 100 minutes talk a month, unlimited UK GPS, for £15 including taxes.
iPhone, $50-$60 a month. I have no idea how many minutes, I’m guessing around 250. I don’t know because I have a 5 numbers unlimited thinger, and my social circle is small. Unlimited texts are included along with 1GB of data. Awesome plan in Canuckistan.
I have a smartphone, and share 400 minutes with my SO for $50/mo. I have also have unlimited data and 400 texts for $25/month. Taxes/fees add another $10/month. It’s about $85/mo. total. I have another non-smartphone that my work pays for.
T-Mobile pay-as-you-go. I used it a lot last year when I was a US Census crew leader, enough so that I now qualify for all my minutes to last a year (and can be extended indefinitely just by buying a few more minutes). I don’t use it that often so I probably am now stretching out $30 worth of minutes a year.
Unlimited texts are included along with 1GB of data. Awesome plan in Canuckistan.