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I feel like I'm missing out on something. I'm in Canada, unlimited texts, calls, etc. 225GB for two lines, $300 something/month. I feel like you are all in on some joke that I'm missing.

Not even gonna post numbers.

I'm Canadian.

Weep for me and my fellow citizens as we are robbed by our telco-oligarchs.

Canada, $225.00 for 4 lines and 2 phones 60 gb data Unlimited Canadian calling/international texting 5 free hours of data when activated via app The phones are a Pixel 7 and a Moto Razr+

Unlimited texts, unlimited calls, 50GB data (music streaming is ignored), EU roaming, 5G for £10/month.

Also it’s crazy how much US and AU people are paying!

France here

• 9.99€/ months for unlimited data, calls and SMS. I also have 35Go data and unlimited calls in around 110 countries when I'm traveling.

US, Cricket, $160/month for five lines

I live in Peru.

I pay 10 PEN ($2.70) and get:

• 10 GB data (plus calls and SMS) only valid for 7 days. This is "free" and does not discount my credit.
• Once the 10 GB are up I pay 5 PEN for 24 h of UNLIMITED GB (Yes, I can tether too!)
• Once the 24h are up I do this again with the remaining 5 PEN
• Therefore on weekends I get unlimited internet.
• My speed is around 18 Mbps (2.25 MBps)
• I do not pay for home internet and simply tether to my laptop.

So it all works out at paying around $10 a month for unlimited internet (as long as I download the big things on weekends!)

I live in the USA and I use Mint Mobile, I pay $20 a month for 15gb of data a month along with unlimited texts and calls. That was about the cheapest plan I could find for one person while still having a reasonable amount of data. It generally works pretty good although I have noticed sometimes especially if I'm at a busy place it can be a bit slow but that makes sense since they're just using other companies networks. I've also had a lot less issues now that I've set up Wi-Fi texting and calling correctly as I didn't realize I had to enable it in the Mint Mobile app for it to actually work correctly.

Have lived in the states my whole life.

No idea how much it costs since I'm still on parents plan. We supposedly get something like unlimited data, but it slows down after a certain amount used.

Don't know whether the 5G even works on my phone since I can't tell the difference between it and 4G on the other phones I've had in the past.

There's a specific spot in my city I absolutely hate riding by on bus because at this one specific light I swear service just dies until we get passed it (which takes what feels like forever since the bus somehow always hits it at red or just turning red).

Otherwise, no complaints other than the time I had to uninstall corporate spyware (social media/games) that they decided I absolutely needed in my life after an update. I'm thankful that they didn't push them as system apps.

Also thankful that the phone I got came with a sim card slot and they let me transfer my number to a new one because I couldn't retrieve my old one.

México. I have Telcel. I pay 550 MXN (≈ 27 USD; €25.50; £21.20) and get 16 GB data + unlimited calling/text with free roaming in the United States and Canada. I also get free long distance to national numbers and United States and Canada.

One trick: my plan is technically 8 GB with a 2 × 1 promotion for 2 years. Every two years, all I do is ask them to renew my contract and my 2 × 1 promotion and I get my 16 GB back. I literally get 8 GB of data for the cost of a smile and a "por favor" every two years.

EDITED TO ADD: I get full 5G speeds in both México and in the United States and Canada. I get up to 200 Mbps in both México and the United States. While in the United States, I roam on the T Mobile network, so I'll get whatever the T Mobile network is capable of. I've never been to Canada, so I don't know how well it performs. But it's still part of my plan.

And, if I want native coverage in Latin America, EU, or UK, I can pay 950 MXN (≈ 46.60 USD; €44; £36.60) on demand for 10 GB of data for 30 days. Granted, travel eSIMs are a better deal, but the option is there.

Australia.

Amaysim, $10 a year.

calls 10c a min. text 5c. 1 GB of internet.

I just have it for calls coming in.

Otherwise you pay $10 a month but you get unlimited calls and text and I think a few GB of internet.

US.

RedPocket, $20 bucks a month.

Unlimited Texts

Unlimited Calls/Minutes

10 GB data

(10$ toward Intl. Calls)

4G LTE / 5G

They're an MVNO that somehow utilizes the Verizon, T Mobile, and AT&T network at the same time.

Physical or ESim card options, but if you go with physical, its mailed to you (free shipping 7-10 days), after ordering entirely online without having to go anywhere or talk to anyone.

Will give you a new number or migrate your old one, whichever you want.

With the physical card, you can pop it in to a different carrier-unlocked phone, input the IMEI to an online activation and you're good to go in 10 minutes.

No costs or restrictions with that, from RedPocket's end.

Best mobile phone plan I can find if you don't care about data caps because you've got home internet and don't do hugely data intensive things away from wifi.

$25 in the US for unlimited talk, text, and data, from Visible, as part of a party

circa 10€ for 10GB of data and unlimited calls, in Germany.

3€ per month
2GB
Germany

USA. 4 lines with unlimited calls, text, and data. International calling and roaming throughout US, Canada & Mexico. Metered by the mjnute/megabyte for international (off-continent) travel. All in, $200 monthly.

(TMO, magenta plan which is now defunct)

UK, £8 a month for 12Gb, unlimited calls and texts, Europe and US roaming included. However, the speed of the roaming just is garbage, completely useless for anything other than text only IMs. If you pay the daily premium, it suddenly improves to useful speed.

Roaming anywhere else is expensive enough to bankrupt a billionaire, something like 50p a Mb, yes Mb not Gb. And that's on top of a daily roaming charge that's mandatory in those regions.

Normally I just pick up a local sim when abroad as the roaming is just garbage.

I pay for three subs:

• For my spouse and I, two 15€/m, 200GB, unlimited SMS/calls. Without yearly contract.
• 35/m for fibre Internet, unlimited + a landline (we don't use) + TV (we don't have one) ;)

This reminds me I wanted to look for cheaper alternatives since neither my spouse and I use data much on our phones. I subscribed to those at a time we had a lot of issue with our fibre Internet so we could still work using our phones as hotspots... and I forgot about it :/

Canada - Telus/Koodo

$40 CAD/mo

70Gb up/down/mo

Unlimited calls and texts in Canada, voicemail, call control, and free international sms

4G LTE but often connect to LTE+

Average speed test 180 Mbps up/down

110SEK (~10€)/month, 8gb of internet, unlimited calls & SMS on a student plan in Sweden. 5-40mbit speed down. EU roaming included.

Sim only. 6€, unlimited calls and sms, 6GB 4G data. Netherlands.

10€/month 5G "unlimited" (350GB IIRC before throttling). I think texts/SMS are unlimited and calls too but I just don't know as I send like 10 texts per months and make two 5 minute calls.

European roaming(edit: actually it's 110 countries) is I think 35GB 4G for free every month.

It was 20€ with a special 10€/month offer for a year, but when I asked for my RIO code to change they offered it like forever for 10€ so I stayed.

France.

In the US. Google Fi simply unlimited plan.

• $40/mo per line for 2 lines
• Unlimited texts/minutes
• 35 GB before it starts throttling data to 256Kbps
• Works in all of North America.
• I usually pay an extra $15 per line while I'm traveling out of NA to get nearly the same service abroad.

I pay €90 a month for a package that includes:

• 1 mobile number with unlimited data, sms and some ridiculous amount of minutes of calls I never use
• 1 mobile number with all of the same except data limited to 30GB
• Home internet with 1GB optic fiber and unlimited data
• TV with hundred channels or so

I think if I wanted to get just the phone line it would be something like €10 a month for the unlimited data one. This is in Spain.

USA, Verizon, $125/mo for one cellphone with unlimited data and one tablet with unlimited data. It includes Netflix, Disney+, and Hulu. I also pay monthly for accidental damage protection.

I had to go with an expensive plan because there's no Wifi at my job site and my data kept getting deprioritized on other companies. So I pay a premium to be able to watch YouTube while I work.

American. Tello. $15 for 5GB. T-Mobile network.

I barely stream unless it's transcoded by Spotify or Jellyfin and mostly use my data for browsing. I rarely ever hit my limit. Cheap and works for me.

About $30/month in the US. Unlimited data. Unlimited texting. Free long distance

UK; £10pm, SIM only, no contract, 20Gb data, unlimited calls/texts, some roaming included, not sure how much. They keep emailing me to say I should move to a £8pm plan because I never use all my data, but that's only 5Gb data and I don't want to run out in an emergency.

Three lines unlimited data calling and text included 70$/month. The business I opened my phone plan with has a policy of never raising rates ever. Ive been on the same plan close to a decade. It would be double if I opened a account today.

American here, we're on an AT&T family plan at $50 USD/month for each line. Yeah, it's expensive, but you get a lot for that price; unlimited talk, unlimited texts, and unlimited data (with no throttling); there's no roaming anywhere in Mexico, Canada, or the United States and no charges for calling international between those three countries (and I think that might also include the Bahamas, but I could be mistaken). We also get a 60 GB hotspot per line per month, but that part might be inside the US only, I've never used it during trips to Mexico or Canada.

JMP.chat

$5 per Gig, $0.0087 per voice minute (Yes, that's about 1¢/min).

Unlimited text, but what's really great is they pipe all SMS into XMPP/Jabber. So I use an XMPP/Jabber app on any device to use SMS.

I've been with Mint Mobile USA for 7 years now.

Same $15/month, for a Prepaid 12 months plan for ~$180/year

Used to be 2GB of 4G now it's 5GB of 5G.

Technically unlimited throttled slow data, good enough for maps/email after.

If anyone uses my link it should be +$15 referral credit bonus.

Can upgrade at anytime in a cycle, but can't downgrade, or also extra data buckets available.

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Also Ryan mails me an Xmas card every year ❤️.

They sent me a silly email today actually but hey...whatevs.

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Mint Fox

25€ a month, unlimited 200MBps internet, calls and texts. Includes roaming in the whole EU.

Finland.

19€/month for unlimited everything.