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Originally Posted by NYPorsche
AT&T here - about $180/mo for 5 lines with unlimited talk/text and 10 gigs shared data. We go through usually 7-9 gigs a month, so that has been plenty for us. I like the shared data too because the heavy users on our plan change month to month, but I don't have to worry about assigning allotments to each line.
The trick with the new AT&T family share plans is that you get a substantial discount on the plan if you aren't using a subsidized phone. The base bill is $100/mo for the base data/talk/text plan and then $15/mo for each line on that. If I were to buy a subsidized phone, that would up the bill to $40/mo for each line. In lieu of this, I bought a galaxy S4 off ebay for ~$200, took it to the store, they gave me a new sim and I was all set.
Regardless of which company you go with - ask about an employer or group discount plan. Most companies offer something along this line to many employers, universities, alumni associations etc.
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We were actually considering switching from AT&T and I was in the process of investigating other carriers. Then, I read this post and revisited the AT&T options. I found the AT&T mobile share value plans to be very cost competitive and we made our decision based on that and that it is also "the devil you know".
We have three smartphones on AT&T. Two of those are Google Nexus 5 devices that I purchased outright last year so they are not being subsidized by AT&T. The other phone is my wife's iPhone 5 which will be under contract until March.
Under our previous contract which I canceled this morning when I made the switch, we had 700 shared voice minutes, unlimited texts and 2GB of data for each Nexus 5s and unlimited data for the iPhone. On average, we were using about 5GB of data per month. All in, it was costing us about $170 per month for our coverage.
Under the new plan we now have 10GB shared, unlimited voice minutes and unlimited texts. The new plan is $122 per month. They charged $15 per month for each smartphone. The extra data available will eventually be used as my wife wants to get an iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular version which will only cost us an additional $10 per month on the plan. I also expect that I will be using my Nexus as a hotspot more often now as that is allowed under the new plan.
