Slovakia, 300GB for 13 EUR/month, no texts and calls included. Those are 5 cents I think.
The carrier has an agreement with another one for coverage extension, but with official FUP of 20GB in that network.
This carrier however disregards that and instead allows up to 80GB, but for a few months after enabling 4G from that other carrier the FUP wasn’t applied at all.
But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows.
It operates on that other network like MVNO, and if your phone decides to stick there, which people report happens a lot, say hello to far lower FUP instead. The carrier’s own network is also generally far slower.
I also found a little network issue (tested with 2 phones) where receiving calls are broken in a fairly specific scenario, but I don’t know how to report that. To keep it short, if VoLTE isn’t available, when switching from 2 of the 4G bands to one of the 2G bands, the call fails to connect after several long seconds of silence on caller end, and no notification of failed call attempt is sent.
I can work around both issues by selecting specific bands as needed manually, but that generally requires root and use of app like Network Signal Guru (inconvenient).
This allows me to decide whether I want more data amount, faster network speed, better outgoing call coverage, or higher chance of receiving a call. Yeah… their network sucks.
I also believe they break the EU roam like at home regulation:
Most plans only have half the data amount it seems they should have, but maybe I just calculated that wrong.
But this plan I have has… ZERO data for EU roaming.
2 x (price of mobile bundle excluding VAT / regulated maximum wholesale cap per GB) = data limit (in GB) when roaming
Hmmm… how does that give a zero.
9€/month, 100Go (5G), unlimited call and SMS. France.
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.
That’s even more expensive than Czech republic.
Which is what got me to ask this. I can’t find anything near what I have there. The closest seems to be Kaktus at similar price, with 10GB (rather than my current 300GB for that price), then 2Mb/s Unlimited. Also 100 minutes or SMS, but still…
Then there’s O2 which for similar price offers 3GB if you’re up to 26… How generous.
13 EUR is around 19CAD or 330Kč.Unlimited data with O2 for 1 line would be around 80 CAD checking T-Mobile and O2.
Quickly checking my carrier’s site, similar to what you have (2 lines, unlimited data, SMS and calls) would cost 34 EUR per month. That’s around 50 CAD…
Geez were not much better in the US with telecoms but I’m only paying $110 for three lines ‘unlimited’ Simple Choice through TMobile. It used to be 6GB data but they upgraded it in the last few years. Even still I’m thinking about switching to Mint for $15/mo per line but I’m lazy as well…
My parents are through Verizon and pay the same for 2 lines even though they barely use their phones. One of them just upgraded from a flip phone this year.
Just to add some context I guess. From what they’re telling me, the cost of my phone along with the other phone is attached onto the monthly cost. Since I have a Fold 5 and the other is a S24 FE which can ONLY use premium plans, according to Bell, the monthly cost is that absurd price.
Not even gonna post numbers.
I’m Canadian.
Weep for me and my fellow citizens as we are robbed by our telco-oligarchs.
It actually makes me so sad seeing just how low everyone elses plans are. When i was in latvia for a bit, my cell phone plan was like 4€ for a month of unlimited everything. Canadians are getting railed in the butt for prices
It’s all of North America really… folks in the US and Mexico get railed as well.
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)
I have the same, plus a watch plan, two home internets, apple tv, netflix, and i just realized that we were paying insurance on 4 phones (that i need to cancel to save$60!) for $374/mo.
3€ per month
2GB
GermanyHere in the UK, I’m currently on unlimited everything, calls, messages and data, for £18 per month.
That is not bad. Who are you with? I’ve got 130gb data, unlimited calls and texts for £13/ month with EE SIM only.
It’s a two year old SIM only deal with Three. I’ve been with then for several years now and this contract expires in three weeks.
According to the app, I can upgrade to their Black Friday offer of the same conditions (unlimited everything) for just £22 a month! 😆
My contract will probably just keep rolling unchanged month to month but I wouldn’t be surprised if Three try and get me to commit to something.
Is it actually unlimited or some slow down after x amount?
Nope. Truly unlimited and I’m allowed to tether it as well. So when I’m in hotels away at work, it’s my source of internet for my tablet and laptop.
Three is truly unlimited. I used to have them when I lived in Ireland. For a year it was the only internet at my home, so I worked and had meetings daily with it, my wife would watch YouTube and her classes, and we would both watch Netflix and play some online games. All from hotspoting from our phones. Battery on the phones was a problem, but we never hit any sort of data caps with them, and we were using hundreds of GB per month for sure.
I’d recommend getting a WiFi router with 4G/5G modem if you find yourself in that situation again.
But then that would beat the purpose of only paying one bill for both phone and internet at home.
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.
About $30/month in the US. Unlimited data. Unlimited texting. Free long distance
$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.
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.
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.
American, AT&T Prepaid 2gb data, think unlimited texting/calling, $30 a month. Mostly 4g lte, but I also can get 5g e.
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!)
US, Cricket, $160/month for five lines
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.
The single issue I have is that some services do not consider Google voice number a legit line
You can probably just get any cheapest prepaid SIM for that purpose.
