I'm a long time lurker on Frugal and thought I'd share some my cell phone plan strategies and savings. This is obviously YMMV since X mobile carrier might not be decent in your area, plan might not be available, I don't need a family plan, etc. So my current cell phone plan is the T-Mobile Simple Choice Plan with 10 lines. Each line comes with 4.5GB LTE data and unlimited talk and text. Each month it cost around ~$170, coming out to be about $17 per person. Since I use the US Bank Card Plus credit card with 5% on cell phone bill category, I get 5% back since I'm bill payer. My family members sends me batches of $100-200 and I just deduct from it each month. Once its depleted, I email them and ask for more. We've had this going for the last 10 years.
Now, I know the Simple Choice Plan isn't available anymore. If I had to start over now, I'd probably go with Cricket's family plan (AT&T MVNO), which comes out to be $20 a person for 2GB data and unlimited talk/text if you have 4-5 people. For Verizon fans out there, I'd go with Total Wireless. They have 25GB of shared data with unlimited talk/text for $95 (~$25 a person). I haven't really looked into Sprint or T-Mobile plans in a while, so I don't have any updated information about them.
Tell me what your cell phone plan setup is so we can shared information and maybe save some extra money.
March 30, 2018 at 06:57PM
