Higher monthly payment with contracts...

dereksbicycles said:
Does T mobile have those extra bills like this? Any other carriers?
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I do not have a mobile phone and I am sure all the carriers have fees to pay too .Any charges the carriers have to pay is pass on to their customers . Verizon went to court and won their case to pass their cost onto their customers . I did not like AT&T and I read that MCI was started to help build
the nuke plant in Seabrook NH so I never used MCI .
 
Reba said:
We've been satisfied with T-Mobile, up to now. The problem is coverage. There are too many uncovered areas. It's very annoying to not be able to make calls unless we drive a few miles or stand on a hill top, or wait until later.

We will also have to upgrade equipment because we each have phones that are becoming obsolete. :(

My daughter and her family recently switched from T-Mobile to Verizon. They had to because they live in a new neighborhood that had no coverage from T-Mobile.
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If you change from T-Mobile to Verizon it is not a matter of if your phones are obsolete but that the two companies use a different technology that is not compatible with each other.

I would suggest that you check the Verizon map very closely before you make a decision. If you find that you do virtually no roaming you would probably like PagePlus which is a MVNO that uses the native Verizon towers with very good rates. I am not connected to them but have been happy using them. You would need to get a 3G Verizon phone that HAS NOT been used on Verizon's on prepaid plan. There is not much choice through PagePlus themselves so a Ebay, Amazon, etc. is a better choice. Here is a link to Page Plus's web site. https://www.pagepluscellular.com/
 
I wish phone companys had build your own plans where you can specify exactly how much of what you want.
 
dereksbicycles said:
My Verizon contract will be up in January. My family is on T mobile plan. I would like to get back on T mobile by then to save money. I wanted to ask about the no contract with T mobile.

My concern was that I would stay with T mobile for 2 years without contract. I would end up paying FULL cost of phone as opposed to partial cost if I signed a 2 year contract.

I wanted to know about monthly plans. Someone mentioned that I would pay more for monthly plans if I had contract as opposed to no contract so that the company would recoup the lost wage from phone sales.

Is that accurate? Can you elaborate?
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Save money = Poor coverage. Not great for business.


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You can check between Verizon and T-mobile for 4G/LTE coverage. I use Verizon for almost 10 years. Too many of my friends complained about bad signal on T-mobile and Sprint at my area and near Chicago. You get what you pay for
 
dereksbicycles said:
I got mine with $54.99/month. Limitation was 2 GB. I went over that. Therefore, it cost me a lot of money.
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Then don't update your app or download app without WIFI. Only way to avoid from over 2GB. I almost never over 2GB for many years. Thanks to WIFI.
 
I would go to Cricket. They offer no-contract phones for a reasonable price, and the monthly charges are always the same-- they NEVER add on anything extra unless I authorized it. When I got my current phone from there, I was paying $50/month, plus $5.20 for insurance, so that was $55.20/month, and then in June, I added a personal hotspot on my phone for an additional $10/month, so now I'm paying $65.20/month, and I have never gone over my limit, therefore my bills have been very stable.
 
Jiro said:
"so much extra fees"? huh? I've been Verizon customer for a very long time. I don't know what is this "so much extra fees" you speak of.

I'm on Verizon's deaf plan. It's like $50 or something.
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Do use Verizon for your internet service too? I used Verizon for my phone and internet and it's $65. 34 with the $10.00 discount on my internet. I use Comcast for my TV . A lot of my neighbors use Comcast for everything , I do like that because if Comcast lose their power you end having no TV , phone or internet . This happen when Comcast lost it power for 3 days . I was till able to use my computer and phone. Some people do not use cell phones .
 
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