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.
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.
Canadian phone plans are insane. I’m on Roger’s and they graciously allow me to “Roam like Home” for only 15/day in Europe… or I could buy a SIM card for five Euros that’ll last me a fucking month.
That seems really high, even for Canada.
Have you looked at any of the flanker brands, like Koodo, Fizz, Public Mobile?
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.
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…
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.
Unlimited texts, unlimited calls, 50GB data (music streaming is ignored), EU roaming, 5G for £10/month.
Also it’s crazy how much US and AU people are paying!
Bruh what all that for 10? I’m paying almost 6 times that amount 🤯🤯🤯
Call your mobile provider (and be prepared to jump ship to a different provider) and ask to speak to their “Retentions” department or team. Every big provider has a team whose job it is to keep customers by basically throwing sweeteners at them.
It’s crazy how many services do this if you just call up, asking to cancel. Sky or Virgin (can’t remember which as I’ve not watched broadcast TV in a few years) gave me 3 months free every time I called to cancel.
Well there is something called “Visible” (Owned by Verizon) that is unlimited everything, but the data is deprioritized so if its 9PM and everyone is on their phone, your speeds reduce to like 1Mbps due to congestion, but you can still use your data to download torrents overnight since nobody is on their phone and hogging data night. Data speed at midnight is like 30Mbps, so its not a “throttle”. $25 per month Unlimited everything is the cheapest you can get. #NotSponsored I just used it previously and it was decent.
I’ve got 30GB + calls/texts for £8/month.
Keep in mind AUD is 0.51 GBP.
But yeah, still a lot.
Aaah, thanks for the insight.
Ya, US dollar is 0.79 GBP. So my $40 plan would “only” be £31. Still much more expensive for sure though.
France here
- 9.99€/ months for unlimited data, calls and SMS. I also have 35Go data and unlimited calls in around 110 countries when I’m traveling.
Canada, $225.00 for 4 lines and 2 phones 60 gb data Unlimited Canadian calling/international texting 5 free hours of data when activated via app The phones are a Pixel 7 and a Moto Razr+
US, Cricket, $160/month for five lines
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!)
circa 10€ for 10GB of data and unlimited calls, in Germany.
$25 in the US for unlimited talk, text, and data, from Visible, as part of a party
Same but the throttling on “busy” towers makes even basic web page loading pretty shitty. Decent deal still but the throttling is really bad
Interesting. I’ve never experienced that. Are you in a really populated area?
I live in the USA and I use Mint Mobile, I pay $20 a month for 15gb of data a month along with unlimited texts and calls. That was about the cheapest plan I could find for one person while still having a reasonable amount of data. It generally works pretty good although I have noticed sometimes especially if I’m at a busy place it can be a bit slow but that makes sense since they’re just using other companies networks. I’ve also had a lot less issues now that I’ve set up Wi-Fi texting and calling correctly as I didn’t realize I had to enable it in the Mint Mobile app for it to actually work correctly.
Have lived in the states my whole life.
No idea how much it costs since I’m still on parents plan. We supposedly get something like unlimited data, but it slows down after a certain amount used.
Don’t know whether the 5G even works on my phone since I can’t tell the difference between it and 4G on the other phones I’ve had in the past.
There’s a specific spot in my city I absolutely hate riding by on bus because at this one specific light I swear service just dies until we get passed it (which takes what feels like forever since the bus somehow always hits it at red or just turning red).
Otherwise, no complaints other than the time I had to uninstall corporate spyware (social media/games) that they decided I absolutely needed in my life after an update. I’m thankful that they didn’t push them as system apps.
Also thankful that the phone I got came with a sim card slot and they let me transfer my number to a new one because I couldn’t retrieve my old one.
México. I have Telcel. I pay 550 MXN (≈ 27 USD; €25.50; £21.20) and get 16 GB data + unlimited calling/text with free roaming in the United States and Canada. I also get free long distance to national numbers and United States and Canada.
One trick: my plan is technically 8 GB with a 2 × 1 promotion for 2 years. Every two years, all I do is ask them to renew my contract and my 2 × 1 promotion and I get my 16 GB back. I literally get 8 GB of data for the cost of a smile and a “por favor” every two years.
EDITED TO ADD: I get full 5G speeds in both México and in the United States and Canada. I get up to 200 Mbps in both México and the United States. While in the United States, I roam on the T Mobile network, so I’ll get whatever the T Mobile network is capable of. I’ve never been to Canada, so I don’t know how well it performs. But it’s still part of my plan.
And, if I want native coverage in Latin America, EU, or UK, I can pay 950 MXN (≈ 46.60 USD; €44; £36.60) on demand for 10 GB of data for 30 days. Granted, travel eSIMs are a better deal, but the option is there.
3€ per month
2GB
GermanyUSA. 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.
US.
RedPocket, $20 bucks a month.
Unlimited Texts
Unlimited Calls/Minutes
10 GB data
(10$ toward Intl. Calls)
4G LTE / 5G
They’re an MVNO that somehow utilizes the Verizon, T Mobile, and AT&T network at the same time.
Physical or ESim card options, but if you go with physical, its mailed to you (free shipping 7-10 days), after ordering entirely online without having to go anywhere or talk to anyone.
Will give you a new number or migrate your old one, whichever you want.
With the physical card, you can pop it in to a different carrier-unlocked phone, input the IMEI to an online activation and you’re good to go in 10 minutes.
No costs or restrictions with that, from RedPocket’s end.
Best mobile phone plan I can find if you don’t care about data caps because you’ve got home internet and don’t do hugely data intensive things away from wifi.
input the IMEI to an online activation
Why though? This sounds like a big stupidity. The advantage of physical SIM is that I can easily move it to another device when my phone breaks, and the carrier still sees the IMEI anyway.
This prevents someone from stealing your SIM and using your plan without also having access to your account
So you can easily change it? If so that’s fine then.
