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AgentCooper

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AT&T DSL and landline disconnected. New phone budget: $25 to $35 per month.
« on: November 09, 2015, 12:57:47 PM »
Turned off AT&T high-speed DSL and home phone (about $60 total)
Instead now have an $80 smartphone (Moto E with Google's various apps) and the monthly plan options on Total Wireless carrier purchased at Wal-mart are:
$25 unlimited talk & text
$35 unlimited talk & text + 2.5 GB internet data. 
If you run out of data, a card for 1.5 GB extra is $10 (but that card can't be added to a $25 plan; it only works when added to the $35 plan).
Both plan options' price will go down some more, per phone, if you have more than one phone.

Downsides:  3G instead of 4G, about which I give 0 craps.

« Last Edit: November 09, 2015, 01:05:25 PM by AgentCooper »
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alsoknownasDean

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Re: AT&T DSL and landline disconnected. New phone budget: $25 to $35 per month.
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2015, 03:12:45 AM »
Nice one!

Do you have a PC as well? Do you tether it to the phone?
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AgentCooper

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Re: AT&T DSL and landline disconnected. New phone budget: $25 to $35 per month.
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2015, 09:38:30 AM »
Not sure what tethering is.  So far haven't missed internet on PC.
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Re: AT&T DSL and landline disconnected. New phone budget: $25 to $35 per month.
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2015, 12:36:41 PM »
He's talking about using the internet on your PC via your phone. Could be easily done if you turn your phone into a hot spot and have a wireless adapter on your PC.
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AgentCooper

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Re: AT&T DSL and landline disconnected. New phone budget: $25 to $35 per month.
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2015, 11:27:17 AM »
OP:  Ah.  I'll keep that in mind if I start missing my PC. 
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Re: AT&T DSL and landline disconnected. New phone budget: $25 to $35 per month.
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2015, 11:36:46 AM »
  I also have AT&T DSL & Landline phone.   I watch very little TV, and that is OTA.  I do spend hours a day on the internet using a variety of PCs and a smartphone I just activated last month.   Some days I download 4 GB of material, mostly operating systems, a hobby of mine.  I suspect that overall I use far more per month than the low amount of data available for a basic smartphone, so haven't yet jettisoned the DSL.
   Got my smartphone (Samsung Galaxy something )from Target for $45 net, and transferred my unused Tracfone time to it, for no charge at all.   So until I use up one of my 3 baskets of smartphone usage, I stand to pay nothing until next September. 
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Re: AT&T DSL and landline disconnected. New phone budget: $25 to $35 per month.
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2015, 04:49:37 PM »
I have Century Link DSL. It's slow, only 4mbps. It works fine for us, we don't download or upload much. It's ok for watching videos online. Since it's so "slow" I can easily call CL and ask for a better price. I'm paying $21/mo. Instead of a landline we use a Google Voice number and an Obi100 box to make free calls over the internet. That has worked well for us for a few years now.

I have a Tracfone Android phone with 3000+ talk/text/data units each that never run out, and service days out to 2037 (I got in on some deals and perks to accumulate all that), so that phone might not need to be fed for a few years. Plus a Tracfone flip phone that I put $20 on every 3 months.
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