I hope your joking right? The cheapest plan is nowhere near enough. I would eat up all of those minutes within a couple of weeks and be charged with a huge bill in overage charges.
Personally, I agree with Sam but one plan will NEVER fit everyone. You will have business users who will spend a chunk of their day yakking away on their iPhone (or any phone for that matter) and will burn up the 450 mins in a week.
450 is too little. That's 27 minutes a day. A lot of people use their cell phones as their primary phone, foregoing their house phones altogether. That is in no way more than enough.
I'm a business man myself, and I agree with Sam. But you are exact on point when you say every plan is different. I myself text and email more than talk on my phone. Soon, I might VOIP call on my iphone, with the help of software developers and the apple SDK
Yes, the cheapest plan is more than enough for most people.
But if $120/mo gets you almost -unlimited- everything, you'd think the cheapest plan would still be a lot cheaper than $60/mo. At least by comparison, my old AT&T rate was $40/mo and included only 450min (no data, no text, no rollover).
I'm not sure, Sam. I use over 2000 minutes and 2000 texts a month. Seems like this would shaft me big time. Good thing I have a lovely O2 tariff on my iPhone (not an iPhone tariff :P).
I had over 7000 minutes used on one bill. I average around 3000 ish. I got the att unlimited plan 6 or 7 years ago when they first offered gsm in my area. the 100 a month is very much worth it to me. Its funny to see plans finally match mine, i now can worry less about losing my sim card and needing a new plan (cannot believe i went 7 years without losing my phone or changing my plan :)
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Sam @ Mar 9th 2008 3:39PM
the cheapest plan is more than enough for anyone.
Numetheus @ Mar 9th 2008 3:45PM
@sam
I hope your joking right? The cheapest plan is nowhere near enough. I would eat up all of those minutes within a couple of weeks and be charged with a huge bill in overage charges.
John McKenna @ Mar 25th 2008 4:24PM
Personally, I agree with Sam but one plan will NEVER fit everyone. You will have business users who will spend a chunk of their day yakking away on their iPhone (or any phone for that matter) and will burn up the 450 mins in a week.
Excuse my redundancy,
John McKenna
LC @ Mar 9th 2008 3:58PM
450 is too little. That's 27 minutes a day. A lot of people use their cell phones as their primary phone, foregoing their house phones altogether. That is in no way more than enough.
CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 9th 2008 4:00PM
I'm a business man myself, and I agree with Sam. But you are exact on point when you say every plan is different. I myself text and email more than talk on my phone. Soon, I might VOIP call on my iphone, with the help of software developers and the apple SDK
Sam @ Mar 9th 2008 4:00PM
I think some of you are forgetting the rollover part of the plan, and for a non-business user, the basic plan works well. I should know, I have it.
MuffinFlavored @ Mar 9th 2008 4:45PM
I agree. I am planning on getting an iPhone in June (or if any rumors come out saying there will be a newer iPhone, later). SMS 200 limit seems silly.
fh @ Mar 9th 2008 4:11PM
Yes, the cheapest plan is more than enough for most people.
But if $120/mo gets you almost -unlimited- everything, you'd think the cheapest plan would still be a lot cheaper than $60/mo. At least by comparison, my old AT&T rate was $40/mo and included only 450min (no data, no text, no rollover).
Raheem @ Mar 9th 2008 4:48PM
I'm not sure, Sam. I use over 2000 minutes and 2000 texts a month. Seems like this would shaft me big time. Good thing I have a lovely O2 tariff on my iPhone (not an iPhone tariff :P).
Decoy @ Mar 10th 2008 1:38AM
256k is more than enough for anyone.
alan @ Mar 9th 2008 5:55PM
I had over 7000 minutes used on one bill. I average around 3000 ish. I got the att unlimited plan 6 or 7 years ago when they first offered gsm in my area. the 100 a month is very much worth it to me. Its funny to see plans finally match mine, i now can worry less about losing my sim card and needing a new plan (cannot believe i went 7 years without losing my phone or changing my plan :)
Galley @ Mar 9th 2008 6:30PM
Dunno about everyone else, but it's more than enough for me. All I need is unlimited data, with a few hundred minutes.
R0B3RT @ Mar 9th 2008 8:47PM
i more than agree the basic is best i would get unlimited text added to it since i text more than call.