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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2025
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$115 a month phone/internet? Are US prices really that insane? My phone is £4 a month for unlimited calls/SMS and got an unlimited data SIM for a 4G router that costs £24/month.
That's about correct, idk what everyone else is on about, but my phone costs me $70 a month, and my Internet costs $60, and those were the cheapest plans I could get. Not to mention that the reason my phone bill isn't higher is because I had to buy my phone outright at $600.
Shits expensive here, for no reason other than corporate greed.
Phone service is only expensive because your paying for the privilege of priority. Go with MVNOs and its reasonable, just the service is slower in congested areas.
To add onto this, there are MVNOs for basically every carrier.
Visible uses verizon, and their cheapest plan is $25/month, taxes and fees included. There's currently a promo that brings it down to $19/month for 26 months.
Mint and metro uses tmobile. Metro offers unlimited at $25.
Cricket uses at&t, they also have unlimited phone plans in the $25-35 range.
Mint is $15/month for limited data, I think around 2 GB. I'm on wifi most of the time and am usually under 2 GB per month, anyway. And if you want more, it's probably about $20 for unlimited or 5 GB, which is still a lot. Coverage in a nowhere town might suck, but in a major area, it works fine. And they frequently have deals where you can buy three months in advance for cheaper, too.
Side note: Not even a Mint customer, just appreciate a good deal when I see it.