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I am thinking about getting an iPhone soon, which service provider should I choose or buy the phone from considering the following:
1) I need unlimited text;
2) I don't use calling much;
3) I use data (website, map apps, etc.), but not much at all; and
4) I plan to keep the phone for at least 3 years.
Which service provider provides the best deal for someone like me?
Get an iPhone 5S from Virgin Mobile. They have an unlimited data plan for $30/month, which includes unlimited texts and 5 hours of talk time. Also, their Apple phones are discounted from the MSRP, though keep in mind that they only run on the Virgin network. There wouldn't be a reason to switch anyhow.
I am thinking about getting an iPhone soon, which service provider should I choose or buy the phone from considering the following:
1) I need unlimited text;
2) I don't use calling much;
3) I use data (website, map apps, etc.), but not much at all; and
4) I plan to keep the phone for at least 3 years.
Which service provider provides the best deal for someone like me?
Well T-mobile is giving you an iPhone 5s to use for one week for free in their test our network promotion. If you don't like their service after the week you give back the phone and you move on to another carrier. T-mobile is reasonably priced, it's less than the other 3 major carriers, but if you want to pay even less than you could try the smaller carriers, though not sure if they would offer the same type of signal service.
Compare prices for the plan you want is a good second step.
The first is to determine if the provider can actually provide.
Loan from the store or borrow from a friend, the cell phone you're considering, of the provider you're considering, and make sure you get a good signal at home and work.
Even downtown, 4-bars is NOT a given! I have a friend who lives in amongst thousands of other subburban houses, and yet her house is in a dip, or surrounded by shallow unnoticeable hills or such with respect to the towers that ATT uses, as her ATT phone gets 1/2 of a bar at best. She'd already gotten the phone so she had to go back and consider a tower-booster for several hundred dollars.
My Verizon gets 3 bars at her place, proving that not all providers broadcast from all towers. Coverage is far from uniform.
Get an iPhone 5S from Virgin Mobile. They have an unlimited data plan for $30/month, which includes unlimited texts and 5 hours of talk time. Also, their Apple phones are discounted from the MSRP, though keep in mind that they only run on the Virgin network. There wouldn't be a reason to switch anyhow.
$30 a month with unlimited text and data??? What's the catch though?
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