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

[Glenn Carnagey]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 6:01 AM, Charles Dyer wrote:

> On 26 Jun 2007, at 22:09:21, LuKreme wrote:
>
>> On 26-Jun-2007, at 19:19, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
>>> On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:09 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>>>> On 26-Jun-2007, at 07:56, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
>>>>> http://www.apple.com/iphone/easysetup/rateplans.html
>>>>
>>>> $60x24 = $1440 + cost of phone, taxes, etc = $2000+
>>>>
>>>> Still, cheaper than I expected.  Granted, that $60 plan SUCKS.
>>>
>>> Depends on what you're using it for.  That $60 plan includes more  
>>> minutes in one month than I've used on my cell phone in the past  
>>> *year* -- it would be ideal for me, if I could otherwise justify  
>>> the $500 expense when I already have a cell phone and 80G iPod.   
>>> As it is, that would be $60 a month for a nifty toy.
>>
>> Well, your usage is certainly not typical.  I use about 1000  
>> minutes a month, and probably another 1000 'off peak' minutes,  
>> though those are hard to count as they are free with my plan.
>>
>> (I pay for 2000 a month and have only ever gone over 1500 once,  
>> but I go over 1000 a few times a year.  This month was 1114  
>> minutes, bill closed just the other day).
>>
>> 450 minutes a month is VERY light usage.
>
> I currently have a 300 minute plan. I have _never_ gone over; I got  
> my bill for last month on Monday, and it showed 174 minutes usage,  
> which is on the low side, usually it's more like 240 minutes. What  
> do y'all _do_, _live_ on the damn things?

yes, some days I spend 174 minutes just calling into meetings. ;-)    
But for the last few years my minutes have come out of a Sprint pool  
of minutes the whole company draws out of, so I'm not sure how many  
minutes I use.  It must be well over 1000/mo during business hours,  
much less during the typically free night/weekend.  We're going back  
to each person expensing their own phone in the Fall, so in theory I  
could switch to Cingular/iPhone, but I can't until they support at  
least ActiveSync or GoodLink.  My Treo has 3 primary non-phone  
purposes:  mobile calendar/email, smart pager, emergency modem and  
ssh.  Not uncommon business usage, really, apart from ssh.  Apart  
from the ssh, any of those is a dealbreaker, and I would want to hear  
from people that used it for a while before I bought it , anyway.    
Then there's that pesky 2-yr contract, which is $200 buyout at least  
from Sprint, so if they take too long for Outlook compatibility, I'll  
be stuck with that as well.   However, I have two talkative college- 
aged kids and am constantly researching plans -- the $60/mo seems  
totally reasonable.

g./





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