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What is the cheapest smartphone plan?
Is getting a dumb phone an option?
No, it isn't. I need to be able to run all my apps, after realizing there was an app
for everything.
You need to go to Walmart.
I already go there for groceries.
You can buy a smartphone there, as well as a smartphone plan.
I don't want a data plan like the Tracphone that lets me check my email every other Tuesday
between five and nine PM.
Their unlimited talk and text plan is twenty dollars a month, with a 300 MB data limit.
It's affordable, but only because I can't do much online.
The one gig plan is $45 a month, with unlimited texting.
They make up for it in overage charges.
After you hit the one gig limit, your cost is $15 for each additional gigabyte.
I've heard that their plans are only 3G. It's cheap because it is life in the slow lane.
Their 4G plan with 2 gig of data is $55 a month. And you pay another $15 for each additional
gigabyte of data.
That sounds expensive.
How often were you complaining about $400 cell phone bills?
Part of that was roaming charges.
A lot of the Walmart plans through AT&T don't have roaming charges, and those starting at
$70 a month have unlimited minutes.
The unlimited texting matters more.
Their most expensive plan with 20 gig of data is only $150 a month.
Because that is the most any Walmart shopper could be expected to afford.
Verizon's 10 gig per month plan is $140 a month, so Walmart isn't too far off on price.
Is there an affordable unlimited data plan?
Since they've brought congestion based pricing to wi-fi and wireless, there's no such thing
as cheap unlimited data except as an oxymoron.