How much does your mobile phone plan cost?

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I’m from the UK and work with an American lady (Susan). I’d always thought (maybe naively) that living costs in the US were generally lower than in the UK. Maybe because I watch a lot of American reality television and eating out (restaurant/fast food) seems cheaper as does groceries and house prices (I know it will vary by area).

Susan said her living costs in the US are higher than in the UK. She said her bills were more expensive and eating out is also more expensive after taxes/tipping.

Her mobile phone plan was 140 dollars and she said above 100 dollars is normal. It’s definitely not normal here.

So I’d like to know, how much do you pay for your mobile phone plan and what is included in the package?

Comments

  1. Mental_Freedom_1648 Avatar

    140 for two lines, unlimited talk/text and about 2GB of data.

  2. MrLongWalk Avatar

    I pay approximately $40 a month for unlimited talk, text and mobile data.

    It’s $160 for my family of 4.

    > because I watch a lot of American reality television

    You’d be better off consulting bones or tea leaves for a view of life here.

  3. Unfair-External-7561 Avatar

    I can tell you that groceries are WAY more in the US, if that’s helpful.

  4. molten_dragon Avatar

    I pay ~$85/month for three lines with unlimited talk, text, and data* in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

    *Data is technically unlimited but gets throttled back to 2G speeds after 50GB per line per month.

  5. CPolland12 Avatar

    I pay $76 + taxes/fees for 1 line, unlimited talk/text/data

  6. ZevVeli Avatar

    It depends on a lot of factors. I have a single plan pay-per-month, and it’s around $45/month. If you are on a big-name network, you tend to pay more. Additionally, some people get a “free” phone with their contract that actually has a monthly repayment buried in their monthly payment.

  7. Arleare13 Avatar

    Mine is about $150/month — for four people. Includes unlimited data, texts, calling, etc.

    > Her mobile phone plan was 140 dollars and she said above 100 dollars is normal.

    That sounds on the high end. I wonder if she’s including the hardware cost as well. It’s common here for cell phone carriers to let you upgrade to a new phone every few years, with the cost of the device billed monthly until it’s paid off.

  8. Positive-Avocado-881 Avatar

    I share with my parents, but we pay $165 for unlimited talk, text, and data for 3 lines. I think $25/month of that is the cost of my phone, though.

  9. leeloocal Avatar

    $300 a year for unlimited data.

  10. anneofgraygardens Avatar

    We pay $120/month, but it’s for three lines. So $40/person.

  11. fiestapotatoess Avatar

    Two lines on Verizon (a notably expensive carrier, but they generally have the best coverage). A bit over $100 with a discount through my employer.

    Don’t have unlimited data.

  12. DepressoExpresso98 Avatar

    I pay for my mom, my little sister and myself. For two phone lines and internet for my sister’s tablet, it’s $215

  13. TheBimpo Avatar

    $50/mo unlimited everything, TMobile prepaid. Works great.

    Our country is big, infrastructure is expensive in a big place, that cost is supported by consumers.

  14. causeyouresilly Avatar

    I would say that use to be more normal but there are a lot more providers now. We have xfinity internet so we can have their mobile plan and its unlimited for 30/month plus a device fee if its not paid off.

  15. BiochemBeer Avatar

    I pay $160 a month for a family of 5, which includes two phone payments, so so essentially $100 a month without that or $20 per person including taxes.

    Now if I was doing a lot of international travel (outside of North America) and wanted to upgrade, the cost would be about double each month. Fortunately I can do that a month at a time if I want to.

  16. mads_61 Avatar

    I’m on a family plan with my parents (lol). We have three lines with unlimited talk, text and data and it’s $141/mo.

  17. ca77ywumpus Avatar

    $45/month, prepaid every 6 months. Unlimited talk, text and data. I have to buy the phone separately though. Often with the more expensive plans, they provide a deep discount on the phone.

  18. halfcafsociopath Avatar

    $170 for 4 lines with unlimited data and Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ bundled in.

    My family always buys unlocked cell phones on sale so we do not carry phone costs with our cell plans.

  19. Avery_Thorn Avatar

    A lot of US grocery stores have websites where you can shop and fill a cart for pickup. These prices are almost always the same as the in-store price.

    So if you pick out a random Kroger in a city in the USA, you can go to the Kroger website and shop and get a good idea of how much food costs in the USA, and a fairly good idea about what is available.

    I’ve done this with random stores in the UK as well. One of the differences, as far as I can tell, is that packages tend to be larger in the USA, so while the per-measure cost is a little bit higher in the USA, the package cost is a lot higher in the USA.

  20. fakesaucisse Avatar

    I pay $10/GB monthly, free after 10GB. That includes talk, text, international data, and tethering. My bill is usually $70-80 a month.

    Edit: just realized I have an inactive second account on my plan. Removing that, my bill is actually $55.

  21. drivernopassenger Avatar

    I’m putting down $80 a month for one unrestricted/unlimited data line.

  22. wiarumas Avatar

    $140/month for 2 phones, unlimited plan

    In my area, I’d estimate the following… eating fast food ~$10-15/person, sit down restaurant ~$25-40/person, groceries ~$1200/month for a family, ~$2200/month rent, average house price ~$500k

  23. mamaterrig Avatar

    270 unlimited, 4 lines

  24. jonnycooksomething Avatar

    $190 for 4 phones and unlimited data and voice plus Apple TV and free wifi on most flights with T Mobile.

  25. MortimerDongle Avatar

    $110/month for two lines, unlimited everything. I’m sure I could get it cheaper, but I haven’t bothered to shop around in a long time

  26. SweetFranz Avatar

    $25 a month for unlimited everything through visible. No idea why someone would pay anywhere close to $100 a month unless they are financing a very expensive phone through it.

  27. InfidelZombie Avatar

    I bought an unlocked phone for $100 and pay $30 monthly for unlimited domestic everything. Subscriptions are expensive because you’re basically paying above retail for a $1k phone in installments.

    Groceries are cheap here though, yeah. I spend about $200 per month and eat everything I want to (but don’t buy any packaged or processed foods). We do lack cheap, healthy prepared foods that European supermarkets have though.

  28. Competitive-Fee2661 Avatar

    Mobile phone and home internet plans are typically less expensive in Europe compared with the US.

  29. Odd-Help-4293 Avatar

    I used to have T-Mobile and it was $70/mo, not including the cost of the phone. I switched to Mint Mobile and got a whole year of prepaid service and a new Pixel phone for like $500 upfront.

  30. xxxjessicann00xxx Avatar

    I pay like $85 a month, $16 of that is for the phone itself. That is unlimited minutes, data, and texts.

  31. Gwyrr Avatar

    140, but my wife pays close to 200. We’re both supporting others on our plans. Even so if we didn’t have phone payments the line itself would be 100

  32. Puukkot Avatar

    I own my phone, so my Mint Mobile plan costs me $20/month with 5G of data, which I never use since I’m almost always on WiFi. I’ve never had coverage issues here in the western states. I was just on a camping trip in a remote area with several other people using major carriers, and we had no coverage until we got up out of the canyon we were in, and then we all had coverage at the same time.

    I used Sprint for years and years and was happy with the service; international roaming was cheap and easy, for one thing, but I was paying around $100/month for their unlimited plan. Wish I had that money back now.

  33. sfprairie Avatar

    About $145/moth. Unlimited talk/text/data 5g. 4 phones. For her bill, is she including cost of the phone? The carriers here will let you buy a phone and pay for it over two years or three years. They will do discounts on a phone as an incentive to get you to switch.

  34. brizia Avatar

    $20 a month for unlimited talk, text, and data. It would normally be $25 a month, but I locked in for 2 years at $20 a month.

  35. VelocityPancake Avatar

    $100-$150 (75-115 £) is pretty normal.

    You can buy disposable cell phones – burner phones at gas stations. There are some programs that very low income people can qualify for.

  36. door-harp Avatar

    ÑA lot of people in the US have expensive phone plans because they’re buying an expensive phone on a contract from their cell provider. I bought a cheaper refurbished unlocked phone so I could have lots of options on a cheaper no contract service provider. Kind of unusual but I don’t have a monthly phone bill. My plan is $15/month, but I pay it annually and it was only $60 this year because I had credits on my account from referrals. If I travel internationally it’s like $10/day or something to add an international roaming pass.

  37. AvarethTaika Avatar

    I’m with Google Fi and pay $65/mo for unlimited everything (though data slows after 100gb, i never use more than 20), including hotspot and international coverage. also includes cloud storage and YouTube premium.

  38. Oktodayithink Avatar

    $15 month- Mint mobile

  39. lalamichaels Avatar

    158 2 lines split

  40. Mustang46L Avatar

    I pay $100 for two lines, only because I’m on a friends plan who gets a 20% corporate discount. Otherwise I’d be at $150 or so.

  41. derkokolores Avatar

    We pay $153 for two lines each with unlimited data (first 75GB at high speed) and 30GB hotspot since we travel a lot and are often using our phones for the wifi

  42. Aloh4mora Avatar

    $160/month for our family of 4. No data limits.

  43. foozballhead Avatar

    Where i live the cheapest reliable cell service is $174 per month for two phones, unlimited. The cheap $40 per line plans are available to me but not reliable. And I need the reliability more.

  44. JimBones31 Avatar

    We pay 138 for two lines and I know that’s on the high side.

  45. Kellaniax Avatar

    We pay $260 a month for 5 lines with unlimited data and hotspot, data in basically every country and satellite backup with T-Mobile

  46. tepid_fuzz Avatar

    $50 a month, unlimited everything, one line with AT&T.

  47. MouseInternal1773 Avatar

    I have a premium plan for $80. I just to have a budget plan for $40. There are like REALLY expensive plans but I don’t see the point of them.

    I’ve spent a lot of time in the UK. I think eating out is similar once you include in taxes. Except soft drinks are way cheaper in the US. So if you like those when eating out US is probably cheaper.

  48. NittanyOrange Avatar

    $50 for 2 phones

  49. ABelleWriter Avatar

    I think my plan is around $40 a month per line (I have 4 devices still being paid for AND house Internet, so I’m not going to do the math).

  50. bjanas Avatar

    I genuinely can’t wrap my head around why people still sign up for traditional plans with Verizon, T-Mobile, etc, and pay hundreds a month. I went unlocked with ‘alternative’ plans years ago and never looked back; I’m currently paying like 25 bucks a month and it’s FINE. And I’m not locked in. I just don’t get it.

  51. Higgingotham96 Avatar

    I pay $35 a month for unlimited talk, text and data, but it is a more niche/budget carrier. I’ve had it for like 6 years and like it. Plans that cover multiple lines are usually more expensive, and yeah likely closer to $100. There’s ways to get cheaper service but one of the biggest things in the US is, well, how big it is. There’s many places that certain carriers won’t have good reception so you effectively have only one or two choices. That’s less common in cities, but even in suburbs that happens.

    Generally our cost of living is higher here in the US, and that’s part of why our wages and salary’s are higher than in Europe/other areas of the world. It’s expensive to live here; food is expensive, commuting is expensive, travel is expensive, housing is expensive, medical care is extremely expensive. It’s just how it is right now.

  52. iforgotmycoat Avatar

    Major carriers e.g. Verizon, TMobile, and AT&T for a single line most of the time you are above $100/mo. If you go their prepaid (total, cricket, metro etc) you are ~$60/mo for unlimited everything. If you go to companies that sell rented off space (charter/xfinity, mint, and others) you are between $30-$50/mo.

    Boost was part of sprint but part of Dish Network now, they are an oddity

  53. PopularRush3439 Avatar

    99.00 month with Verizon.

  54. Pinikanut Avatar

    I pay $60 a month for unlimited everything for 2 lines.

    I lived in the UK for a number of years. My experience was that things cost a bit more in the US but my salary is much higher in the US than in the UK. Overall, before covid, living was cheaper in the US if you do a ratio of costs to expenses. I moved back to the US 2 years before covid, so I don’t know how that changed things. I do know living in the US has skyrocketed since then, but the UK had its cost of living crisis so I don’t know where they landed relatively.

  55. Delli-paper Avatar

    Your average Briton makes half as much as your average American. If prices in the US are double, then the situation is even. Generally its closer to 1.5x.

  56. itsmyparty45 Avatar

    $25/month for 15GB data, unlimited talk and text. That’s for a 6 month plan, paid upfront. I’ll probably do the 12 month plan next time and then it will be $20/month.

  57. CoralWiggler Avatar

    $30 base for one line with unlimited data/talk/text, and $15 for each additional line. My family all is on the same plan, so my wife, dad, mom, sister, brother-in-law, and I are all on the same plan. I just pay my dad $30/month for our lines

    It’s an old TMobile plan that we grandfathered in on & have kept for about 15 years now

  58. DryFoundation2323 Avatar

    $40 a month unlimited everything. Of course the actual payment can be much higher for things like insurance and payments on phones, but the basic bill for service though is $40 a month.

  59. Key_Zucchini9764 Avatar

    About $15 per month. Unlimited talk and text, 2 gig of data.

  60. TooManyCarsandCats Avatar

    $250, 5 lines of unlimited everything.

  61. RainyAlaska1 Avatar

    My bill is $55 per month which includes one phone with unlimited talk, text and data. It is bundled with home internet for no extra money.

  62. jackfaire Avatar

    Just her phone alone? My bill is a few bucks less than that but my mom and stepdad are on the same plan which is included in the 137 I pay.

  63. send2steph Avatar

    $40-50 a line on our multi-line plan. Some have more options than others. Everyone has Unlimited data. I manage our plan and have seven phones one tablet and one watch on the plan and it’s roughly $350 a month. Taxes and things change from month to month and I don’t quite get that but whatever.

  64. Majestic-Macaron6019 Avatar

    It’s $140/month for the three-person plan I’m on with my parents. Unlimited everything with T-Mobile, though the plan gets a little throttled after 60 GB, I think.

    I’m betting that London and the Home Counties are much more expensive than most of the US other than our really HCOL areas like NYC, DC, Bay Area, etc.

  65. Narrow_Tennis_2803 Avatar

    My best friend moved to the UK 6 years ago and I have visited twice. She has commented on how cheap phone plans and home internet there are. Groceries there are so much cheaper it made a me a little sad. Eating out seemed a bit cheaper. Drinking out cost about the same. I don’t know about clothes and things like that because I never bought them. Also, she lives up North and real estate prices there are dirt cheap compared to where I live in the US, which is in a historical LCOL area (though now closer to MCOL).

  66. throw20190820202020 Avatar

    $100 a month, four unlimited everything lines.

    We don’t subsidize our phones with our plans, we buy outright.

  67. Excellent_Squirrel86 Avatar

    $55/month. Do some shopping

  68. Honest_Swim7195 Avatar

    $210 per month, 6 lines, home internet, unlimited talk/text/data

  69. rockninja2 Avatar

    Cost of living, groceries, eating out, etc can vary a lot depending on where you live in the US (and I am sure the same can be said for the UK). Generally eating out is more expensive in the US with tax and tips and the fact that the restaurant may have to ship food in from farther away (US being a much bigger country and all), incurring more costs for them which they have to pass on to the customer.

    Cell phone plans for a family of 4 (with 4 smart phones) with unlimited talk, text and usually about 2GB of data, $160 sounds about normal ($40 per line). It may vary slightly depending the carrier and if you are a new customer or just switched but either way, once the terms of your deal run out you are usually in a contract for 2 years.

  70. Most-Silver-4365 Avatar

    At $140 I’m guessing she has Verizon. Verizon used to have the best national network by a large margin, that hasn’t been true for almost two decades. I’m not sure why Verizon customers won’t give the other providers a try even when I try to convince them. In general I think people in the US are drastically less likely to change providers than in other countries.

  71. Icy_Consideration409 Avatar

    $56 per month unlimited calls, text, and data for three lines.

  72. Even_Happier Avatar

    $15 a month for unlimited texts and calls + 5gb data. Or $30 with unlimited data. Mint mobile

  73. boulevardofdef Avatar

    Most people pay much more than I do, but I pay $20 a month. For that I get unlimited talk and texting, and 15 GB of high-speed data. A good majority of people these days have unlimited data, but in 10 years I’ve never used more than 8 GB or so in a month and I usually use much less. I do have to prepay for a year to get this price, but I actually like it better that way, I prefer not having a bill every month.

    It’s only been in the past year or two that I’ve started hearing the trope a lot that American food is more expensive, there must have been a viral TikTok about it. I’ve only ever been to London but I didn’t find restaurants to be cheaper there than they are here. I just quickly searched gastropubs in London (Brits love their gastropubs!) and found this place, where the food definitely isn’t cheaper than you’d find in, say, New York. For example, I went to a similar type of place a few weeks ago in New York, and if anything, the food’s a little cheaper — $31 for a fish main course in New York compared to $36 in London.

  74. CrispyJalepeno Avatar

    It’s around $65

  75. jluvdc26 Avatar

    140 for 4 lines, unlimited data. We do get a discount from my husband’s work though (I think 20%)

  76. BeerBoilerCat Avatar

    I have Mint which is a ‘pay up front’ phone plan. 15GB of data and unlimited talk & text is $262.58 all in for a year. $140/month is wild.

  77. Emergency_Pool_3873 Avatar

    Brand new phone, unlimited everything plus home internet and I pay $148

  78. SemiLucidTrip Avatar

    I have a super cheap phone plan its $15 a month. I get unlimited talk and text and one GB of mobile data. (can buy more data at $10 for 3GB) Works for me since most places have free wifi now. Those super high cell bills (for one person) are usually buying the newest $1000+ phone on a loan along with tons of mobile data.

  79. wheel_wheel_blue Avatar

    Around $15, 10gbs of data and 100 minutes, with unlimited texts. Most of the time I don’t fully use the data and rarely the minutes since those can be accumulated… 

    Reading the comments makes me think that people don’t know how much data and minutes they need… 

  80. AFartInAnEmptyRoom Avatar

    I pay roughly $330/month for 4 unlimited data plans, 3 phones financed monthly, and 1 home internet data plan

  81. Alexdagreallygrate Avatar

    I pay $40 for unlimited data. There’s a limit on hotspotting but it’s fine.

    It’s an MVNO, though, so if I’m in a place with lots of first-tier customers (like a football stadium), the data can become slow.

  82. Self-Comprehensive Avatar

    About 150 dollars a month for four phones with unlimited data. When I signed up for the family plan years ago, there was a deal to get one line free if you got three lines. I’ve had that deal for years now.

  83. Spooky_Tree Avatar

    I think we are about $140 maybe $120 for two phones, unlimited everything.

  84. cruzecontroll Avatar

    $40 for unlimited talk, text, and 5G data. Plus free wifi on flights.

  85. gfunkdave Avatar

    We have three lines on a family plan with T-Mobile. It’s $160/month for unlimited talk/text/data.

  86. Sean_Malanowski Avatar

    We pay about $200 a month for 7 people unlimited

  87. unsurewhatiteration Avatar

    We have 5 people and an iPad on ours. Unlimited data, plus free Disney+/Hulu and Google Play Pass/Aple Arcade. $230 total.

  88. LoooongFurb Avatar

    Mine is ~$50 USD a month, unlimited talk and text and I don’t remember how much data but I’ve never used it all

  89. CoherentBusyDucks Avatar

    $113/month.

    That’s for one line of unlimited talk, text, and data, plus a bunch of streaming services and Walmart+ and a line for my son’s kid “smartwatch.”

  90. lendmeflight Avatar

    I have one line and pay around $90 a month. When I was in the uk I found most things to actually be cheaper. Quality beer was cheaper food was cheaper if I didn’t go to tourist places. Housing seems about the same. I don’t know about cars and insurance for them. If a$50,000 a year job would translate to £50,000 I would do just as well or better there than in America.

  91. nyki Avatar

    I paid $35 for my portion of a family plan on T-Mobile. Unlimited everything.

  92. NorthMathematician32 Avatar

    $275 for my son and me. 2 phones, 2 ipads. And insurance. Postpaid family unlimited plan.

  93. rawbface Avatar

    I pay $125 a month for unlimited talk/text/data on two cell phones, and two mobile devices (a watch and a tablet).

    Keep in mind our salaries in the US are much higher.

    > eating out is also more expensive after taxes/tipping.

    This has never been my experience in the UK, Ireland, Germany, or Switzerland. I will acknowledge I’m funneled into more urban areas, but man is eating out in Europe expensive, even without tipping. I definitely pay less at home, including tip.

  94. jessper17 Avatar

    I have 3 phone lines with unlimited everything and an excellent international add-on on my plan and it’s $185 a month, or $61.66 per person a month.

  95. HorseFeathersFur Avatar

    I have consumer cellular. It’s $28/month for unlimited

  96. Samson_J_Rivers Avatar

    $135, 2 phones unlimited everything except 15GB hotspot, paying off one phone (mine) soon to be paying of both phones. All one single bill.

  97. Pizzaguy1205 Avatar

    You only pay over 100 if you finance the phone

  98. Nellylocheadbean Avatar

    $90 a month , 1 line, Verizon unlimited

  99. steezMcghee Avatar

    Cost of living is way more expensive here that is why our wages are typically higher

  100. o93mink Avatar

    $280 for 2 iPhone 15s with 512gb of storage, unlimited everything, another unlimited data plan (paid off phone), and an Apple Watch.

  101. Highway_Man87 Avatar

    $54 USD and change for my one line.

  102. Far-Policy-8589 Avatar

    I use Fi and pay about $140 a month for 2 lines. We get unlimited talk and text, and get 100GB of high speed data per line. There’s no limit on how much of that data you can hotspot. Straight Talk can be a little cheaper, but you can only hotspot something like 10GB of data, which doesn’t work for me.

    The $140 includes insurance plans on a Samsung phone, a Pixel 9 Pro, and a Pixel Watch 3.

  103. SubstantialPressure3 Avatar

    I have mint, so my phone plan is cheap.
    Yes, eating out is expensive. And it’s going to be more expensive with all the tariffs.

  104. ProtozoaPatriot Avatar

    Unlimited plans are $45-$90 for most providers. Straight Talk is $45 unlimited, no contact, no overage charges.

    For my daughter, I have a $15/month plan with T Mobile. Unlimited calls and testing; 5gb high speed data, then it slows down. No contract or hidden fees.

  105. ChoiceD Avatar

    Five dollars per month.

  106. MeepleMerson Avatar

    My mobile plan is something like $150 for 4 phones, unlimited usage, which includes a small corporate discount through my employer. I think the pricing is that first line is $50 and the additional ones are $30 each.

    In the USA, it’s quite common for carriers to sell both the phone and service, so some people are paying for the service plus making installment payments on the phone as part of the arrangement. If they got a new iPhone with their service, they might be paying $40 – $70 on top of the actual cost of coverage. I would guess that the woman you spoke with is in that group and is including the cost of the phone.

  107. HoyAIAG Avatar

    I pay $98 a month with a 18% work discount.

  108. Quenzayne Avatar

    I pay $160/month on T-Mobile with 4 lines. 

  109. No-Donut-8692 Avatar

    $24 for two lines. One has 2gb, the other has 5gb. It really depends on whether you get a plan that comes with a periodic credit for a new phone or a “bring your own phone” plan where you are literally just paying for the phone/data service. Folks who are paying >$100 usually can get a few hundred towards a new phone every two years. Our plan is a basic prepaid service.

  110. maxintosh1 Avatar

    I pay around $100 on Verizon but that includes a bunch of bundled services I use like Hulu and Apple Music. Verizon has its own MVNO with unlimited data for about $25/month. The main difference between using the premium carrier and an MVNO is service priority (if there’s a lot of congestion) and sometimes less flexible international coverage, mobile hotspot speeds, or caps on 5G speed data.

  111. as1126 Avatar

    4 lines, bunch of stream apps, unlimited nonsense, for $225 per month on Verizon.

  112. MeTieDoughtyWalker Avatar

    Mine is like $150. It was one of the best plans when I got it but since they sold HBO, if I change plans I’ll lose my free Max subscription so I’m fine keeping it.

  113. Chad-Ironrod Avatar

    $25/mo. unlimited.

    I had this as a promotional rate from Sprint when Sprint was bought by T-Mobile. They converted it to a permanent rate when the transaction closed and they took on my account.

  114. Pyesmybaby Avatar

    Mine just went up to $65 a month unlimited I pay $62 a month for my home internet

  115. JustbyLlama Avatar

    I pay $55 a month for one of those plans they sell at Walmart. It does what I need it to.

  116. SandstoneCastle Avatar

    I pay a little over US$50/month for two lines, limited (but sufficient) data, and a plan that works in the US and when we travel to Europe too.

  117. Communal-Lipstick Avatar

    The cost of living varies widely depending on where in the US you live.

  118. brzantium Avatar

    I pay nothing. I have service through a local startup that’s trying to build out a decentralized 5G network that uses T-Mobile as a failover network (so basically I have T-Mobile). In return for hosting one of their cell sites on my property, I get free service.

    My wife has service through our ISP who’s really just reselling Verizon service. She pays $30/month.

    We both have unlimited everything.

    Plans above $100 are normal if you only look at the flagship carriers. If your friend looked at plans from MVNOs, she’d see she’s overpaying.

  119. Confetticandi Avatar

    I pay $65/month for unlimited talk/text and unlimited 5G data. 

  120. disapproving_cake Avatar

    I spend $125 for 5 lines talk/text/unlimited web. Idk why people pay ridiculous prices when there are reasonable choices out there

  121. 00zau Avatar

    I pay $12 month. I get like 100mb of data, 500 or maybe 1000 minutes/texts. Don’t remember the exact numbers, cause I don’t hit the limits. Used to be $80/year, but I eventually started actually using up the minutes before the refresh date.

  122. biddily Avatar

    I pay $150 a month for 5 people to have unlimited talk text and data, so $35 per month per person.

  123. thatsaniner Avatar

    $140 for a family of three with unlimited everything. We own all three phones (don’t make a monthly payment on them).

  124. PokeCaptain Avatar

    $75 for unlimited talk/text/data, one line. 

  125. Any-Age-8293 Avatar

    $50. Unlimited talk and text, 50 GB.

  126. CaptainAwesome06 Avatar

    It’s around $200/month for my family of 6 (5 lines) with a top tier plan. The company I work for pays a quarter of it.

    T-mobile also gives me some other extras that I’d probably be paying for if they didn’t. So that also helps.

    Above $100 is definitely normal for a cell phone plan.

    Susan sounds like an obnoxious person. I’d believe that living expenses in London are higher than expenses in the backwoods of Kentucky. Just like how living expenses in LA are probably higher than those in the middle of nowhere in the UK.

    FWIW, I think my sister’s expenses went down when she moved from the greater DC area to the Wirral.

  127. skippyalpha Avatar

    Nah she’s getting fleeced. 25-35 is common now for unlimited on smaller carriers, maybe a bit more on the big carriers. You can get even below $25 if you don’t need unlimited data

  128. TehWildMan_ Avatar

    $20/monthly plus taxes, billed as an annual lump sum of $263)

    15gb deprioritized (all excess capped to 128kbit/s, yes that’s kilobits, lol) per month is generally enough for me unless I’m traveling. International roaming is a rare enough situation where I don’t need a plan that routinely need it, but it’s common enough that having a carrier that offers it for a charge is nice

  129. smeeks7 Avatar

    I pay 25 a month with US Mobile. It does everything I need it to do.

  130. ZeldaHylia Avatar

    Mine is $30 through boost mobile.

  131. MonteCristo85 Avatar

    I was paying $15/month for 5gb but I recently switched to unlimited for $30/month with Mint Mobile. You have to buy 12 months at a time to get that price, but its worth the savings IMO.

    People have been flocking to budget phone services the last few years as the big carriers were getting too expensive. ATT unlimited was like $70 when I left. And many people have a family plan and just say the one price as if it is a single line.

  132. Ineffable7980x Avatar

    $50. Unlimited talk, text, data.

  133. Lostarchitorture Avatar

    $5 a month, but I am an add-on to my wife’s plan. She’s an employee of a cell phone company, so her bill is just taxes and fees with free minutes and data.

  134. river-running Avatar

    I just switched to Mint Mobile and prepaid for a year at $15 a month. Previously, with Metro, I was paying $50. Both one line with unlimited talk, text, and data.

  135. Diligent_Pineapple35 Avatar

    $60/month for unlimited through Verizon

  136. tacmed85 Avatar

    $50/month unlimited everything, but I’m on Firstnet so my calls get priority if the networks get overloaded.

  137. superpony123 Avatar

    $25/mo, I am on a prepaid plan with AT&T that’s 16GB of data per month but anything not used rolls over. I really dont use much of any data so it’s essentially unlimited data for me. The international prepaid is pretty cheap too! But my husband pays more for a real unlimited plan. He streams too much youtube and stuff like that to get by with the type of plan I have.

  138. chefnee Avatar

    Varies. Post paid, which one pays monthly can be costly. Plans begin averages around $50USD and above for a single line. Once you start adding stuff up, then it gets expensive. Then there’s prepaid. It can be cheaper if you only use it to actually talk to people. The cost comes when it is used for data like GPS, streaming videos youtube, etc.

    A family of 4 is about 160USD a month. That’s with non-new phones.

  139. Crazycatlover Avatar

    Phone bills in the US tend to be higher than in Europe and Asia in general. I suspect that is related to the US being less densely populated (ie same cost of infrastructure spread out among fewer people). I think Europe may also view communication as a vital service worthy of subsidy, but don’t quote me on that.

    To answer your question, I pay $140/month for a phone, tablet, and hotspot (unlimited data on phone and tablet; 20g per month on hotspot) with a 25% discount on services (which covers everything except device cost). When I was working and living in South Korea, I paid $60/month for phone and hotspot.

  140. Able_Conflict_1721 Avatar

    I pay about $20-40/month based on data usage
    1)I own my device
    2)I’m almost always on Wi-Fi, so I only pay for data while in walking the dogs, driving, etc

  141. Ok-Equivalent8260 Avatar

    $255 per month for two lines and two iPhones (unlimited talk, text, and data)

  142. lannister80 Avatar

    $132 for a family of 4 people, with a “free” phone upgrade every 3 years, which is “paid off” over 36 months. You have to pay sales tax on the phones, though.

    We just got 4 brand-new Samsung Galaxy S25+ phones in April. AT&T

  143. CupBeEmpty Avatar

    96 a month because I need it for work. I go into clients houses all the time where they forgot their wifi password or “oh our son Billy knows it.”

    So then I have to tether my phone. Unlimited calls and data.

  144. AuggieNorth Avatar

    $50/month with supposedly unlimited data, but they slow you down after like 50 GB per month, which only happened once in 5 years when I didn’t have wifi for a couple weeks.

  145. PsychologicalBat1425 Avatar

    I pay for an unlimited plan for myself, my son, and my mom. The total cost for all of us is $93 a month. 

  146. Thatonecrazywolf Avatar

    I have unlimited everything with Mint Mobile.

    I pay $360 for a whole year.

  147. Ok-Scarcity-5754 Avatar

    I pay $120 for two lines unlimited talk/text/data

  148. kirstynloftus Avatar

    I believe my family pays about $200 a month, but that’s for unlimited data and four lines. Plus I think that includes a phone payment or two (not everyone’s phones are paid off iirc)

  149. kirstynloftus Avatar

    I believe my family pays about $200 a month, but that’s for unlimited data, some coverage in Canada/Mexico (I think 5G for the first few gigs of usage per day and then unlimited LTE?) and four lines. And iirc, not everyone’s phones are paid off, so there’s monthly fees for those too.

  150. ShadowKat2k Avatar

    Mine was 150 for two lines and just a couple months ago I changed services down to 70 for the pair.

  151. Eric848448 Avatar

    Way too fucking much.

  152. Bango-Fett Avatar

    Sim only £18 a month for unlimited data, mins and texts. Half price because of friends and family mind u

  153. Tinman5278 Avatar

    “Her mobile phone plan was 140 dollars and she said above 100 dollars is normal. “

    Ask her for the breakdown of that $140. I’d bet you that she’s paying ~$60 for her actual cell service and the rest of it is that she bought a $1400 phone and financed it through her cell provider. So she would be making payments on a loan for her phone as a part of her monthly bill.

    I pay $140/month for 4 numbers/users with unlimited talk/text/data.

  154. PossibilityOk782 Avatar

    like $17 with taxes and fess becuase im not an idiot.

  155. IROC___Jeff Avatar

    I pay 30$ per month with metro. 2Gb LTE data, unlimited slower stuff. But, I’m on WiFi at home and work. I don’t live on my phone and I want cheap bills so this works fine. I also buy my own phone.