New iPhone info annoucend today

Ghoulish Delight · 06-10-2009, 06:37 PM

Yeah, but (barring company discount) the family version of that plan used to be more at AT&T than the same plan at Sprint. $20 or $30 more depending on your exact plan. Now, the Sprint unlimited plans cost the same as the AT&T plans that aren't unlimited, so they still have the competetive advantage, I'd be paying the same montly for as an iPhone but for a more inclusive plan. But I literally have zero use for those extras and surely, for my use, not worth the $500-$700 it saved me over the 2 year contract. It's still a great price, Sprint is still $10 lower than T-Mobile and Verizon, but more plan than I need.

This might finally trigger the inevitable dropping of Netflix. Time to stop paying $15/month to store DVDs in our tv cabinet for months. We can always rent from TiVo in a pinch.

ETA: Oh yeah, actually, I don't know what the family plan options at AT&T are. For some reason they don't let you buy more than 1 iPhone at a time online, you have to call or go to a store.

ETA more: From what I can gather looking at their non-iphone smartphone family plans, They do still have the options to not do unlimited but costs the same or more than Sprint's unlimited.

Stan4dSteph · 06-10-2009, 07:50 PM

Okay, that was very confusing and I have no idea what you just said.

I have a family share with one iPhone and one regular phone. I pay $50 for the least amount of talk minutes (I think it's 440) since I hardly use my phone to call people, plus AT&T has rollover. The second line is $9.99 more. Then there's $30 per iPhone for data plan. If you want to add texting, that's more.

When I did the math, something with Verizon that would give me comparable features was going to be more, and the phone wasn't as good. Blackberry plans are ridiculously pricey.

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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Yeah, but (barring company discount) the family version of that plan used to be more at AT&T than the same plan at Sprint. $20 or $30 more depending on your exact plan. Now, the Sprint unlimited plans cost the same as the AT&T plans that aren't unlimited, so they still have the competetive advantage, I'd be paying the same montly for as an iPhone but for a more inclusive plan. But I literally have zero use for those extras and surely, for my use, not worth the $500-$700 it saved me over the 2 year contract. It's still a great price, Sprint is still $10 lower than T-Mobile and Verizon, but more plan than I need. This might finally trigger the inevitable dropping of Netflix. Time to stop paying $15/month to store DVDs in our tv cabinet for months. We can always rent from TiVo in a pinch. ETA: Oh yeah, actually, I don't know what the family plan options at AT&T are. For some reason they don't let you buy more than 1 iPhone at a time online, you have to call or go to a store. ETA more: From what I can gather looking at their non-iphone smartphone family plans, They do still have the options to not do unlimited but costs the same or more than Sprint's unlimited. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ Last edited by Ghoulish Delight : 06-10-2009 at 06:45 PM.
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Stan4dSteph Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: East Bay Area, CA Posts: 3,156	Okay, that was very confusing and I have no idea what you just said. I have a family share with one iPhone and one regular phone. I pay $50 for the least amount of talk minutes (I think it's 440) since I hardly use my phone to call people, plus AT&T has rollover. The second line is $9.99 more. Then there's $30 per iPhone for data plan. If you want to add texting, that's more. When I did the math, something with Verizon that would give me comparable features was going to be more, and the phone wasn't as good. Blackberry plans are ridiculously pricey.
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