I feel like every two years I need to call my carrier and complain if I want a decent deal. They will do things like upgrade my plan on their website to have 10 extra gigabytes of data but won’t upgrade me to it until I contact them. There’s also all the new member exclusive deals that I feel make it impractical to just sit on one plan for an extended period of time.
Never. $25/line, unlimited talk / text / data. Had it for seven years now. Can’t beat that.
I’ve got the same prepaid plan for over a decade, just sometimes buy more data.
I just switch providers, it’s easier to get a good deal than by staying and nagging customer support. Though I currently pay €10,- with my current provider because I also have fibre with them, so I’ll probably stay with them for the foreseeable future.
I switched ever couple of years.
After using some grandfathered T-Mobile family plan for over a decade I moved us to Tello. Still the same towers, but with our usage it’s half the price.
I do prepaid & get a new plan anually. It’s cheaper this way, less surprising bill-wise, & the rotation of numbers can help with security & privacy. All the carriers suck here equally but coverage is the same so I just see who is offering the best deal.
Illimited message/phone calls + 110Gb here. Don’t feel the need to call for 10 extra gb when i don’t consume more than 50% of my plan per month.
Every other year or so, but only because there somehow keep being better deals. Over the last 8 years mint mobile has been consistently good pricing even for returning customers provided you’re willing to pay for the whole year up front. That’s my baseline. From there other small carriers come along offering unlimited for less and you join for a year or two until they go bust. Right now I’m on Spectrum mobile since it’s free with even the cheapest home internet available to my address (for 12 months).
I have a prepaid plan that I never change. It costs nothing per month and I get 10 MB inclusive. I only add internet volume bundles when I need it for navigation for longer trips - to ensure it does not exceed that price (gets slower after).
Unlimited calls and SMS/MMS, 200GB data, lots of long distance calls covered: 16€EUR/mo. Why would I change ?
I literally never have. Same prepaid thing for like 15-20 years. The terms have changed a fair bit over the years but I still only dump the bare minimum for long/no-expiry from the same provider. Averaged out it’s only a few dollars a month.
It has some data now but I still just Wi-Fi hop in the rare situations I need internet.
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So my base plan here in the US is probably 7-10yrs old? And they keep pushing me to switch over to one of the new “unlimited” plans, since I’m on an old 5GB/mo plan. So why don’t I switch?
Mainly because I don’t normally use more than 5GB/mo. Crazy in 2024, I know, but I’m usually at home on WiFi. And if I’m traveling, I’ll try to stick to WiFi as much as possible, esp if I’m going to watch YouTube or something.
But then a couple years ago, I stumbled upon a special offer from my carrier that gives me 1000GB/mo for $10/mo. Oh, it also rolls over. So I basically always have 2000GB/mo. And I can use it for hotspot data for no additional cost (which I do). And it doesn’t get deprioritized (unlike the “unlimited” data in the their newer plans, once I go over a certain point). As long as I don’t change my base plan, I get to keep this add-on.
And even with that add-on, my bill is still $5-10 cheaper than the carrier’s worst “unlimited” plan. I do lose out on two things: Ultrawideband/mmwave and no international coverage included. I don’t care for the first thing and I don’t travel abroad often enough that that’s an issue. I still get 5G, just not the special 5G or whatever UWB/mmwave is.
Short of me losing 5G access or making the “unlimited” plans significantly cheaper, there’s really nothing they can do to make me switch.
And I can use it for hotspot data for no additional cost
From a European perspective (no idea about other places) this sounds so ridiculous. You pay for internet. Why should they be allowed to dictate if you can hotspot it or not
Been with the same carrier 18 years now, same unlimited plan for at least the last 8.
In the 15 years I’ve had a mobile phone I have changed around 5 times. But the last one was just an upgrade that added 40 GB of data while roaming in the EU, US and Canada to my previous unlimited plan for Switzerland only. That increased the cost from 20 to 25 Swiss Franks per month.
I like the legacy plan I’m on. I don’t get netflix included - but I never use that anyway, and meanwhile I get more data for the same price.
