$2000 iPhone (was Re: iPhone Rate Plans are up)

[steve harley]

they whom i call LuKreme wrote:
> 450 minutes a month is VERY light usage.

i share 550 "plan" minutes and never go over; 450 "anytime" 
minutes may be modest, but it's well within norms; in a 
google-arbitrary sample of semi-trusted reports from 2006, i 
found these statements which may or may not include both "free" 
and plan minutes:

"cell-phone users with wireless contracts paid, on average, for 
791 minutes per month. However, on average, they used 477 minutes 
per month."

"Only 13% of consumers use their cell phones more than 1000 
minutes per month. [...] 46% use their cell phone 500 minutes a 
month or less."

"the US, the average subscriber uses their mobile phone nearly 
600 minutes per month"