Argh, mine is always too high. I have a cel phone, and it’s my only phone. My bill is usually between 80 - 120 a month Canadian. I have a plan for 600 minutes long distance across north america, which is nice because I call home alot. Still, I hate that big phone bill. I wish I could reduce it, but I don’t see how, I like to call home and I like the portability of a cell phone.
I have two land lines. One is for the house (Hubby’s had one forever) and the other is for my home office fax. The bill for these is about $70 each.
I have two cell phone bills. One has two phones on it, and the other has three phones on it. All together they are about $300 per month.
So, anywhere from $440 to $500 per month is what I pay for phones. Some months it has been as high as $600 (the person who ‘ran over’ always pays for overages).
Ever considered getting a calling card? In the US at least, their rates are MUCH cheaper than the cell phone carriers’. (Note that this only helps with long-distance, not roaming, charges.)
3 cell phones, on a “Family Talk” plan (or whatever T-Mobile calls it): $130ish with taxes, fees, unlimited text messages and 1000 minutes to share (but our minutes to each other and other T-Mobile customers and calls to anyone on nights and weekends don’t count towards those 1000 minutes).
Do you have a couple of friends you could go in on a family plan with and save some money that way? Our plan is only another $9.99 for an additional phone. Plus, they actually paid *me *$150 to take three phones off their hands!
$30 for the cell (the total shared between 5 of us)
$50 for the landline (need it for the company fax, company pays it)
Doing some sort of family plan is a serious money saver. We share 1000 minutes, but have free nights and weekends, can call each other for free, and have 10 people in our Circle we can call for free. I think we used about 2000 mins total last month and 0 of them were over-limit minutes.
How do you get that kind of landline bill? 10 lines? Overseas calls? Excessive featuritis?
My bill is about $50/month for 3 landlines, unlimited local & domestic long distance and all the features I could ever dream of (voice mail, caller ID, etc., etc.). For celphone, $30/month for unlimited[sup]*[/sup] calls anywhere in the USA, anytime. Phone is thru Charter (+ cable TV/Internet, bundled), celphone is Celcom.
Before Charter offered phone, my bill with AT&T was double what I pay now. Competition and technology is a great thing, you bet.
I just keep using more minutes each month and they just keep charging me zero more. I don’t really know what the official rate is, but I’m afraid to ask.
How do you all have such cheap cell phone bills? I suppose I use mine more that I don’t have a landline, and I have a texting package, but still…almost 50 dollars in ad on services? I think I need to actually look at my bill instead of just paying it.
$85, but I have a Blackberry, so I pay for unlimited data services. I just cut the unlimited texting down to a 200/month plan. I just don’t use it enough. No land line.