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Crunching the Numbers On Shared Cellphone Contracts
itwbennett writes "The Wall Street Journal has a handy online calculator to help you sort out which phone plan is best for you. But one thing you'll notice is that shared or 'family' plans rarely offer any real savings, or benefits beyond the convenience of having a single bill, says blogger Kevin Purdy, who is bracing himself to propose a phone plan separation with his wife."
Republic wireless for one/two phones or heavy usage. Ting if three or more moderate usage. Using ting I'm paying 56 a month for as the sole phone for 3 people, replaced a sprint 3 phone family plan that after all the hidden taxes fee's etc .was about 160. Sure I had to buy phones but they have low end droids for less than most carriers monthly fee. My nexus 4 was 4 ish months of savings and this is before you could port cheap refurbished sprint phones..
No sir I dont like it.
Every time people complain about cell phone service and prices and contracts, I feel compelled to post a link to Ting, where you pay for what you use, and the more you use, the less it costs, and it's $6 per phone on the account, with as many phones on the account as you want. Now THAT is a family plan that is fair. I'm saving more than 50% from what I was paying for an "unlimited" plan with Sprint.
Disclaimer: if you use that link and end up signing up, you get a discount and I get a discount.