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I recently got a metropcs phone with a $30 plan. I mostly needed it just for GPS and didn't intend to use the data much. But my landlord stopped paying the Wi-Fi bill and i have to switch to be $60 a month unlimited data plan.
The cheapest thng would be to get your own wifi. MetroPcs gives you the first 6GB of tethering at up to 4G LTE speeds, and only unlimited at very slow speeds.
There is no magic one to one comparison between the cost of 1 GB of data on wifi vs 1 GB on cellular because they don't normally sell wifi by the gigabyte. But one estimate is cell data is 40X the cost of wifi data.
Mine is free for the forseeable future. Maybe for the next couple of years.
I have a Tracfone Andoid phone. This is a pay as you go phone and you can buy minutes and add it to the phone and it never expires as long as you have service days available. Last year I found some 1/2 price sales on minutes and stocked up and have thousands. I only use about 100 per month. My service days are out til 2037 due to some glitches (or perks) in the system.
This phone runs on Verizon towers so I get good service. Tracfone also has At&T service with GSM phones.
Mine is free for the forseeable future. Maybe for the next couple of years.
I have a Tracfone Andoid phone. This is a pay as you go phone and you can buy minutes and add it to the phone and it never expires as long as you have service days available. Last year I found some 1/2 price sales on minutes and stocked up and have thousands. I only use about 100 per month. My service days are out til 2037 due to some glitches (or perks) in the system.
This phone runs on Verizon towers so I get good service. Tracfone also has At&T service with GSM phones.
But how are they on Customer Service? The last time I had Tracfone (admittedly years ago...) Customer Service were in India or China, and they were not understandable, at all. They had no idea of how things work in the USA, as far as I could tell. There was constant trouble with purchasing more minutes, and I had to endure long on-hold waiting times for a live person, whom I could not understand because of heavy Asian accent. Usually the first person could not resolve the issue, and I had to wait even longer for a supervisor.
But perhaps this part is better now? For all the $$ spent, I'd much rather be speaking with someone whom I could understand. That's a big reason I went with the Consumer Cellular, who have one of the most consistent highest ratings of customer service.
To answer the OP's question: I spend about $20.00 a month for all the calls, texting, and data needed. My provider is Consumer Cellular. And I have an unlocked iPhone5 which I brought to the plan.
$150 for two iPhone 6S 64GB with 10 GB data each. It's $100 without the phones. I'm on T Mobile.
MetroPCS's unlimited data is not, in fact, unlimited high speed data. That may be a problem if you're using it as your only connection.
The unlimited 4G $60 plan I believe is 60 gigabytes which should be fine to get me through the month. All their plans are unlimited with the throttle down the speed with the $60 plan does not unless you go over the 60 gig limit
The unlimited 4G $60 plan I believe is 60 gigabytes which should be fine to get me through the month. All their plans are unlimited with the throttle down the speed with the $60 plan does not unless you go over the 60 gig limit
Don't count on that 60 GB.
It's clear from their Network-Disclosure page that 23 GB is the throttle point if you are on a heavy use tower. On top of that, T-Mobile branded plans have a higher priority on the network than Metro PCS plans do, so you potentially will get throttled on certain towers if there is a lot of demand from T-Mobile customers.
You can also only use 6 GB of that off of the phone (tethered).
Also make sure you are in a solid T-Mobile service area, as you get very little roaming data (200 MB or less per month on the T-Mobile branded plans).
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