Cell phone bill question

[bookishwench]

My cell phone basically functions as, shockingly, a phone. It doesn't connect to the Internet, it doesn't open or send email, it doesn't do text messaging, it doesn't have music, and while it does have a camera, the pictures it takes are basically blurs. Usually, this doesn't bother me, but I'm beginning to realize there may be some safety issues involved in my rather Amish phone. For example, if the campus is closed during the day due to weather issues, the info is sent out via text message (though eventually the classroom phones also display it). Hence, I'm vaguely considering an upgrade, but I admit to being completely clueless as to what "normal" people pay for a cell phone bill. Currently, I'm at about $34. What would be typical?

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Thanks!

Comments

[nightshade1972.livejournal.com]

I'm married, and my husband and I have a joint plan. Our bill generally runs around $180. When I was single it was around $70 for my share of the bill (my father paid it, we had a family plan), so for two of us $180 isn't horrible, particularly when you consider that we do have data (internet)/texting on our plan as well. Hubby uses the data more than I do, because he travels a lot for business and when he's on the road his phone functions as his computer, since he's already lugging around a company laptop for work.

ETA we have Verizon. That's also what my parents use. Was a bit of a hassle getting Verizon to take me off my parents' plan and give me my own bill, but not hugely so.

[bookishwench.livejournal.com]

Verizon is what I use as well. $90, though? Gyah. That's nearly triple my current bill.

[nightshade1972.livejournal.com]

We paid a bit of an upcharge to get a plan with 6GB data on it, because my husband travels a lot and he wasn't sure how much data he'd use in a given month. As it turns out, he's not coming anywhere close to using that 6GB, so we probably need to rethink that plan. Like I said, when I was on my own my bill was around $70, and that didn't include data/texting at all. I think the only reason the bill was even $70 is that I had a certain number of minutes paid for automatically, which I never came close to using. Now that the plans are structured in much the same way, where you get X number of minutes, X amount of data, X amount of texting, and X varies depending on how much you need and how much you want to spend, I really don't know how little you'd be able to spend with Verizon and still meet your specific needs. Could be you'd still be able to have some data/texting without coming close to $70. Only way to know for sure is to ask Verizon.