• @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    06 months ago

    Yeah. I always saw it as a trade-off. “Here’s a cheaper or zero interest loan for a phone. You get this in exchange for paying us a cell phone bill for the next year or two.”

    What pusses me off is that none of the big three give any discount if you have your own phone. If the guy next to me gets $600 off his cell phone purchase and pays $80/month, how come I still pay $80/month with my own device?

    • ODuffer
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      6 months ago

      Wow, I pay £10 a month for unlimited calls/text and 45GB data. Not even on contract, it’s a monthly rolling bill, I can cancel at any time. The reason for this, there’s pretty good competition between carriers/NVMOs in the UK at the moment, driving prices down.

      • @ECB@feddit.org
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        16 months ago

        Yeah most of europe is waaaaay better when is comes to mobile plans compared to the US.

        I don’t use use that much data, but my 8gb plan is just under €6 per month.

        In the US, I had a plan like this for over $30…