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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
You don't really save money, it's just less going out of your pocket every month. Almost $600 off-contract. $1,080 for two years at $45. Add the phone price and it's $1,680 plus taxes.
The contract phones on the other hand are $200 at 16GB, and around $60 per month which is $1,440 plus taxes.
$200/yr extra just for getting that unlimited plan. It used to be A LOT more cheaper.
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To correct a couple of points:
- If your math was correct (which it isn't), that's not $200/year, it is $200 over two years, so $100/year
- You forgot to factor in the cost of the phone in the second example, so the $200 difference just evaporated. The difference is $40 over 2 years to get unlimited data and be contract free.
Certainly mobile data is not cheap, but for a lot of people it is as important, if not more so, than their home internet connection. I am grandfathered on an unlimited data plan from AT&T, together with a Samsung Note running CM9 I can wirelessly tether any WiFi device at LTE speeds so for me it is money well spent.