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I feel like I'm missing out on something. I'm in Canada, unlimited texts, calls, etc. 225GB for two lines, $300 something/month. I feel like you are all in on some joke that I'm missing.

Unlimited texts, unlimited calls, 50GB data (music streaming is ignored), EU roaming, 5G for £10/month.

Also it’s crazy how much US and AU people are paying!

Not even gonna post numbers.

I'm Canadian.

Weep for me and my fellow citizens as we are robbed by our telco-oligarchs.

France here

• 9.99€/ months for unlimited data, calls and SMS. I also have 35Go data and unlimited calls in around 110 countries when I'm traveling.

circa 10€ for 10GB of data and unlimited calls, in Germany.

$25 in the US for unlimited talk, text, and data, from Visible, as part of a party

USA. 4 lines with unlimited calls, text, and data. International calling and roaming throughout US, Canada & Mexico. Metered by the mjnute/megabyte for international (off-continent) travel. All in, $200 monthly.

(TMO, magenta plan which is now defunct)

3€ per month
2GB
Germany

I pay for three subs:

• For my spouse and I, two 15€/m, 200GB, unlimited SMS/calls. Without yearly contract.
• 35/m for fibre Internet, unlimited + a landline (we don't use) + TV (we don't have one) ;)

This reminds me I wanted to look for cheaper alternatives since neither my spouse and I use data much on our phones. I subscribed to those at a time we had a lot of issue with our fibre Internet so we could still work using our phones as hotspots... and I forgot about it :/

Sim only. 6€, unlimited calls and sms, 6GB 4G data. Netherlands.

10€/month 5G "unlimited" (350GB IIRC before throttling). I think texts/SMS are unlimited and calls too but I just don't know as I send like 10 texts per months and make two 5 minute calls.

European roaming(edit: actually it's 110 countries) is I think 35GB 4G for free every month.

It was 20€ with a special 10€/month offer for a year, but when I asked for my RIO code to change they offered it like forever for 10€ so I stayed.

France.

$200 AUD, 200gb data, unlimited calls and texts. Amaysim In Australia.

https://www.amaysim.com.au/sim-plans/12-month-sim-plans/unlimited-200gb

I live in Peru.

I pay 10 PEN ($2.70) and get:

• 10 GB data (plus calls and SMS) only valid for 7 days. This is "free" and does not discount my credit.
• Once the 10 GB are up I pay 5 PEN for 24 h of UNLIMITED GB (Yes, I can tether too!)
• Once the 24h are up I do this again with the remaining 5 PEN
• Therefore on weekends I get unlimited internet.
• My speed is around 18 Mbps (2.25 MBps)
• I do not pay for home internet and simply tether to my laptop.

So it all works out at paying around $10 a month for unlimited internet (as long as I download the big things on weekends!)

JMP.chat

$5 per Gig, $0.0087 per voice minute (Yes, that's about 1¢/min).

Unlimited text, but what's really great is they pipe all SMS into XMPP/Jabber. So I use an XMPP/Jabber app on any device to use SMS.

I've been with Mint Mobile USA for 7 years now.

Same $15/month, for a Prepaid 12 months plan for ~$180/year

Used to be 2GB of 4G now it's 5GB of 5G.

Technically unlimited throttled slow data, good enough for maps/email after.

If anyone uses my link it should be +$15 referral credit bonus.

Can upgrade at anytime in a cycle, but can't downgrade, or also extra data buckets available.

End shilling

Also Ryan mails me an Xmas card every year ❤️.

They sent me a silly email today actually but hey...whatevs.

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Mint Fox

About $30/month in the US. Unlimited data. Unlimited texting. Free long distance

Here in the UK, I'm currently on unlimited everything, calls, messages and data, for £18 per month.

American, AT&T Prepaid 2gb data, think unlimited texting/calling, $30 a month. Mostly 4g lte, but I also can get 5g e.

UK; £10pm, SIM only, no contract, 20Gb data, unlimited calls/texts, some roaming included, not sure how much. They keep emailing me to say I should move to a £8pm plan because I never use all my data, but that's only 5Gb data and I don't want to run out in an emergency.

Sweden, cca 50eur/month. Unlimited 5G with free calls and text, 50gb within EU+ some other countries outside, free data sim (in my home modem), up to 4 extra data sim cards for 1.75eur/month.

Canada - Telus/Koodo

$40 CAD/mo

70Gb up/down/mo

Unlimited calls and texts in Canada, voicemail, call control, and free international sms

4G LTE but often connect to LTE+

Average speed test 180 Mbps up/down

I am lucky enough to have never had a cell phone bill to this day. I got my first real job in 2006, and before that, I lived with my parents and just used their flip phone when going out. I will say I was a little late, but for the most part nobody in my generation used cell phones except to actually get in touch with someone and that's it. Once at my job, I was handed a phone and number to use through the company. Since I was in IT, we basically controlled the phones and didn't care if it was used personally. I am still with the same company today, but there have been changes and got scary so now I just purchased an android phone, signed up for Google voice to give myself a free number and use wifi for everything else. When I leave the house I have the company phone turn on Hotspot and my personal connects to it, so it's basically like having everything a provider offers without a bill.

The single issue I have is that some services do not consider Google voice number a legit line so I can't use the number for sign-ups or mfa on like 15% of the accounts I use. Apple, and battle.net are 2 off the top of my head.

US.

RedPocket, $20 bucks a month.

Unlimited Texts

Unlimited Calls/Minutes

10 GB data

(10$ toward Intl. Calls)

4G LTE / 5G

They're an MVNO that somehow utilizes the Verizon, T Mobile, and AT&T network at the same time.

Physical or ESim card options, but if you go with physical, its mailed to you (free shipping 7-10 days), after ordering entirely online without having to go anywhere or talk to anyone.

Will give you a new number or migrate your old one, whichever you want.

With the physical card, you can pop it in to a different carrier-unlocked phone, input the IMEI to an online activation and you're good to go in 10 minutes.

No costs or restrictions with that, from RedPocket's end.

Best mobile phone plan I can find if you don't care about data caps because you've got home internet and don't do hugely data intensive things away from wifi.

In the US. Google Fi simply unlimited plan.

• $40/mo per line for 2 lines
• Unlimited texts/minutes
• 35 GB before it starts throttling data to 256Kbps
• Works in all of North America.
• I usually pay an extra $15 per line while I'm traveling out of NA to get nearly the same service abroad.

$10/m redpocket.com, US. 1gb/m 5g data plus some big amount of voice+sms. This is way more than I need. They have smaller plans too.

US, Cricket, $160/month for five lines

Too much, not enough, Canada.

I pay €90 a month for a package that includes:

• 1 mobile number with unlimited data, sms and some ridiculous amount of minutes of calls I never use
• 1 mobile number with all of the same except data limited to 30GB
• Home internet with 1GB optic fiber and unlimited data
• TV with hundred channels or so

I think if I wanted to get just the phone line it would be something like €10 a month for the unlimited data one. This is in Spain.

UK, £8 a month for 12Gb, unlimited calls and texts, Europe and US roaming included. However, the speed of the roaming just is garbage, completely useless for anything other than text only IMs. If you pay the daily premium, it suddenly improves to useful speed.

Roaming anywhere else is expensive enough to bankrupt a billionaire, something like 50p a Mb, yes Mb not Gb. And that's on top of a daily roaming charge that's mandatory in those regions.

Normally I just pick up a local sim when abroad as the roaming is just garbage.

Finland.

19€/month for unlimited everything.

USA, Verizon, $125/mo for one cellphone with unlimited data and one tablet with unlimited data. It includes Netflix, Disney+, and Hulu. I also pay monthly for accidental damage protection.

I had to go with an expensive plan because there's no Wifi at my job site and my data kept getting deprioritized on other companies. So I pay a premium to be able to watch YouTube while I work.

I'm on Google Fi in the US. $50/mo for 3 lines with unlimited calling/texting, and $10/GB of data, with charges capping at 12 GB (data isn't limited to 12 GB, they just stop charging you after 12 GB; this threshold depends on the number of lines on the account - more lines results in a higher pricing cap). I'm on wifi 99.99% of the time so it's generally pretty rare that I use more than a single GB across all 3 lines.

US, had Verizon for $170/mo (2 lines) with a lot of extras on an “unlimited” plan they’re actively trying to kick people off of. Switched to Visible (aka different flavored Verizon) on a discount for $35 per line (normally $45) for up to two years, basically the same unlimited phone plan but no extras. The only benefit for the extras was locking in a price on subscription services until Verizon started monthly surcharges to keep up.

About 10 euro for 12GB

I am grandfathered into a Verizon (USA) plan from the time the FCC disallowed caps in exchange for 700MHz spectrum. I used 365GB of data in the first week of this month.

Cheapest I could find in Sweden. Around 10€. I think it is 3GB data and unlimited calls and texts. Whatever data I don't use stacks up for a year or somesuch. I have WiFi at home and the office so I don't really need much data. I would go for a cheaper plan if it existed.