Typical iPhone monthly bill?

[gassy]

For you iPhone users, what is your typical monthly bill and how many minutes do you have?

[jyl]

2 iPhones on 700 minute family plan, monthly bill about $150, I get reimbursed for about $120.

[stomachmonkey]

$192 for 1400 minutes, 2 lines, 1 iPhone, 1 BB with additional text and BB mail plan.

[jyl]

New Apple iPhone 3G+ believed coming in June so I wouldn't buy one now. New phone likely supports coming faster ATT 3G network (7 Mbps down), as well as iPhone OS 3.0 (recently previewed by Apple, not a sea change but some nice features like cut/paste and push notification). By then the Palm Pre should be available so will be able to compare.

[HHI944]

I've got 2 3gs on my plan, recently downgraded to 700 minutes and it comes to just under 130. Of course I started the plan while I was still in the army so I have a discount.

[HardDrive]

I don't have an AT&T bill in front of me, but I do recall being damn confused the first time I looked at one. I forced one of their phone reps to explain the bill to me line by line.

[cgarr]

Don't have one yet but getting one, phone is $24 (700min) and the data plan is $30 a month on a school plan.

[porsche4life]

700 family plan. 1 3G 1 BB 1 Rugby. We have data on the 3g and unlimited text on all. Our plan comes in at just shy of 150. Of course my dad can write it off as a business expense on the company.

[dtw]

Originally Posted by HHI944

I've got 2 3gs on my plan, recently downgraded to 700 minutes and it comes to just under 130. Of course I started the plan while I was still in the army so I have a discount.

Same @ our house 2x 3G and 700 mins. Add 200 texts/mo for me, same for wife, plus 100 international texts, we're around $160/mo.

Watch out for overages on minutes - $0.40/min overtime is prison sex. Night-time minutes begin at 9pm. My dad called me at 8:55pm and we were on for about 2 hrs; paid $50 for that call. Yes, if the call is initiated 1 minute before 9pm, the entire call is billed on primetime rates.

[HHI944]

I barely talk or text. I use tons of data. Last month was 12gb of usage. When I downgraded to 700 I had several thousand rollover and they let me keep 1000.

[jyl]

I find that 700 minutes for two of us is enough. I don't start long calls on the iPhone. If I receive a call on it that looks like it will go long, I try to call the person back on a landline. Obviously, I don't worry about mobile-to-mobile calls or nightime/weekend calls.

I keep my calls short as much to save the battery as to save money. Battery life is just adequate.

Have no interest in paying for texts. Such a ripoff. Prefer using one of the IM applications, which will work even better with iPhone 3.0's push notification.

Did ATT give you a problem about the 12GB data usage?

[rattlsnak]

1 iPhone, 1 Razr, 1 Sidekick, 1,000 minutes, family plan, $119.00 a month.

[HHI944]

I find that 700 minutes for two of us is enough. I don't start long calls on the iPhone. If I receive a call on it that looks like it will go long, I try to call the person back on a landline. Obviously, I don't worry about mobile-to-mobile calls or nightime/weekend calls.



I keep my calls short as much to save the battery as to save money. Battery life is just adequate.



Have no interest in paying for texts. Such a ripoff. Prefer using one of the IM applications, which will work even better with iPhone 3.0's push notification.



Did ATT give you a problem about the 12GB data usage?

They tried to pass off some bs service charge but dropped it when I called and *****ed about having to pay for 3g data plan when they don't have 3g coverage in my area. I'm actually typing this on my phone, slacking at work, counting down till I can head to the gym.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by HHI944

I barely talk or text. I use tons of data. Last month was 12gb of usage. When I downgraded to 700 I had several thousand rollover and they let me keep 1000.

Good deal. They are supposed to cap what you keep to the max of the plan, ie you should have ended up with 700 rollovers.

I went from 3000 to 1400. Had 12,000 rollover minutes.

Based on my usage 1400 is just about what I use so having 1400 roll over in reserve was fine.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

12,000 rollover minutes.
.

I think when you get that many on your bill you should get a nice chunk off your bill.

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Good deal. They are supposed to cap what you keep to the max of the plan, ie you should have ended up with 700 rollovers.

The guy at the store mentioned that, but when I checked it a few days later online I had 1000

[mikester]

I'm contemplating this for the wife myself. She has an older blackberry and I use a BB at work and I hate them.

Still, $20 a month for unlimited texts? Major suck. My wife texts like crazy.

[ruf-porsche]

Just a regular phone with 600 min, $39.00 a month plus TAX which push it to 49.51 a month.

[BRPORSCHE]

Yea the $20 for unlimited texts blows. I send maybe 100-200 texts a day...

[mikester]

yeah, seriously - she has huge thumbs.

Technically speaking - SMS messages cost the phone companies nothing. The technology works via a utility carrier within the cellular signal. It isn't any more or less data to do transmit for SMS to work. The fact that they charge for it at all knowing what I know about it chaps my hide. Plus the fact that they were complaining about it and all carriers raised their rates on it (but that isn't price fixing) and again, it costs them more to bill for it than to provide it.

So, by my calculations:

900 minutes: $59.99
Data: $30.00
Text: $5.00 for 200 texts (I wish they had something between 200 and 1500 for $15)

$95 a month.

I'm comparing this to other phones with data plans and they aren't really beating it. Sprint's everything plan (which states unlimited everything) is $99/month.

T-Mobile is out since she has that now and the coverage sucks.

Verizon is about the same per month for a BB Pearl.

Seems pricier than it needs to be...