How much are you paying for your iPhone or BB? (taxes, price)

[ianwaters]

I find whenever I upgrade or change plans with ANY cell company I am told it will be XX and it is always XX+a few extra fees - what is your total monthly fee?

[TeamExit]

yea theres always a few dollars of taxes on top..

I have sprint, a samsung instinct, soon to upgrade to the palm pre. i was going to switch to ATT a year ago for the iphone, but it came down to sprint being like $20 cheaper for the same plan. On ATT, the cheapest plan for an iphone (450 anytime, unlimited data, etc) was $70, but dont include messaging, so thats another $15 for 1500 texts, plus taxes.. so it should come to over $90 probably.. on Sprint i have the Everything plan, which is the same as the ATT plan pretty much, but also includes texting, for $70. Plus i get a corporate discount (12%) for sprint, so my bill comes to like $68 total.

until ATT drops their rates, i cant justify paying the extra $20 a month for a slower data network and crappier voice network, just to have the iphone

and with sprint theres only a couple dollars of fees on top, probably $5 at the most. i used to have ATT years ago and it was like an extra $15 if i recall, but i think i remember of there being a law made to stop those ridiculous random fees

[thebobs]

If you mean their fees for breathing, changing socks and all that, mine is around $20. I notice my bill goes up every now and then and when I dig down to find out who the culprit is, its usually something like the 911 fee or the county tax, state tax, or whatever.

[jpg71]

The problem is the local taxes that get tacked on depend on where you make most of your calls. Depending on where that is, your bill could vary quite a bit.

I pay $144 for two iPhones in a family plan. That includes the 550 mins a month shared plan, two iphone unlimited data plans, one family unlimited text plan, and my corporate discount.

If it were just for one line, you could get rid of $40 for the add-a-line and iPhone data, another $10 to drop the family unlimited text plan and go with a single unlimited plan, and then whatever fraction is associated with taxes.

On the $144, about $15 is government fees and taxes, but not all of those fees are a direct percentage of the total, but figure drop another $5 of taxes if I lost one of my lines.

I guess it would be around $95 a month out the door if I only had the one line. My corporate discount is 24% on service for the primary line.

[LIOC]

I have an iPhone and pay $63 a month. This is for 450 mins (with rollover), 500 text and unlimted Data. This is with my company discount.

[jpg71]

By the way, to put some more perspective on this, I also have a Sprint SERO plan for my son's cell. It's $30 base price, and after taxes and fees comes out to $35. It's a pretty sweet deal, 500 minutes, unlimited text/data, but they no longer offer SERO these days and I can't use it with some of the newer data-intensive phones like the Palm Pre. I have it hooked up to a Palm Centro which works well enough for now.

[thebobs]

Question, is there any cell service on Long Island that doesn't have all these fees tacked onto your bill?

[MauiTiki]

[SIZE=2]Verizon Wireless Family Share Plan - 2 phones with 700 shared minutes (unlimited nights/weekends & in calling)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]one regular - no added features.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]one blackberry curve - unlimited data plan and 250 text messages[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Monthy bill - $123.00[/SIZE]

[jpg71]

All of the cell providers are required to charge these taxes and fees. I'm not aware of any provider that bundles everything together in a clean "lump sum".

[Teresa1127]

Originally Posted by MauiTiki

[SIZE=2]Verizon Wireless Family Share Plan - 2 phones with 700 shared minutes (unlimited nights/weekends & in calling)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]one regular - no added features.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]one blackberry curve - unlimited data plan and 250 text messages[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Monthy bill - $123.00[/SIZE]

We have the same plan only I have the blackberry storm. After having the phone for 5 months, I've decided that I no longer want the $30 data plan. Unfortunately its REQUIRED by Verizon on all new smartphones. I like the phones many other features and hate to get rid of it. Makes me furious that I have to keep paying an extra $30 for the features I don't want.