Slovakia, 300GB for 13 EUR/month, no texts and calls included. Those are 5 cents I think.
The carrier has an agreement with another one for coverage extension, but with official FUP of 20GB in that network.
This carrier however disregards that and instead allows up to 80GB, but for a few months after enabling 4G from that other carrier the FUP wasn’t applied at all.
But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows.
It operates on that other network like MVNO, and if your phone decides to stick there, which people report happens a lot, say hello to far lower FUP instead. The carrier’s own network is also generally far slower.
I also found a little network issue (tested with 2 phones) where receiving calls are broken in a fairly specific scenario, but I don’t know how to report that. To keep it short, if VoLTE isn’t available, when switching from 2 of the 4G bands to one of the 2G bands, the call fails to connect after several long seconds of silence on caller end, and no notification of failed call attempt is sent.
I can work around both issues by selecting specific bands as needed manually, but that generally requires root and use of app like Network Signal Guru (inconvenient).
This allows me to decide whether I want more data amount, faster network speed, better outgoing call coverage, or higher chance of receiving a call. Yeah… their network sucks.
I also believe they break the EU roam like at home regulation:
Most plans only have half the data amount it seems they should have, but maybe I just calculated that wrong.
But this plan I have has… ZERO data for EU roaming.
2 x (price of mobile bundle excluding VAT / regulated maximum wholesale cap per GB) = data limit (in GB) when roaming
Hmmm… how does that give a zero.
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.
Canadian phone plans are insane. I’m on Roger’s and they graciously allow me to “Roam like Home” for only 15/day in Europe… or I could buy a SIM card for five Euros that’ll last me a fucking month.
That seems really high, even for Canada.
Have you looked at any of the flanker brands, like Koodo, Fizz, Public Mobile?
Geez were not much better in the US with telecoms but I’m only paying $110 for three lines ‘unlimited’ Simple Choice through TMobile. It used to be 6GB data but they upgraded it in the last few years. Even still I’m thinking about switching to Mint for $15/mo per line but I’m lazy as well…
My parents are through Verizon and pay the same for 2 lines even though they barely use their phones. One of them just upgraded from a flip phone this year.
That’s even more expensive than Czech republic.
Which is what got me to ask this. I can’t find anything near what I have there. The closest seems to be Kaktus at similar price, with 10GB (rather than my current 300GB for that price), then 2Mb/s Unlimited. Also 100 minutes or SMS, but still…
Then there’s O2 which for similar price offers 3GB if you’re up to 26… How generous.
13 EUR is around 19CAD or 330Kč.Unlimited data with O2 for 1 line would be around 80 CAD checking T-Mobile and O2.
Quickly checking my carrier’s site, similar to what you have (2 lines, unlimited data, SMS and calls) would cost 34 EUR per month. That’s around 50 CAD…
Just to add some context I guess. From what they’re telling me, the cost of my phone along with the other phone is attached onto the monthly cost. Since I have a Fold 5 and the other is a S24 FE which can ONLY use premium plans, according to Bell, the monthly cost is that absurd price.
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!
Bruh what all that for 10? I’m paying almost 6 times that amount 🤯🤯🤯
Call your mobile provider (and be prepared to jump ship to a different provider) and ask to speak to their “Retentions” department or team. Every big provider has a team whose job it is to keep customers by basically throwing sweeteners at them.
It’s crazy how many services do this if you just call up, asking to cancel. Sky or Virgin (can’t remember which as I’ve not watched broadcast TV in a few years) gave me 3 months free every time I called to cancel.
Well there is something called “Visible” (Owned by Verizon) that is unlimited everything, but the data is deprioritized so if its 9PM and everyone is on their phone, your speeds reduce to like 1Mbps due to congestion, but you can still use your data to download torrents overnight since nobody is on their phone and hogging data night. Data speed at midnight is like 30Mbps, so its not a “throttle”. $25 per month Unlimited everything is the cheapest you can get. #NotSponsored I just used it previously and it was decent.
Keep in mind AUD is 0.51 GBP.
But yeah, still a lot.
Aaah, thanks for the insight.
I’ve got 30GB + calls/texts for £8/month.
Ya, US dollar is 0.79 GBP. So my $40 plan would “only” be £31. Still much more expensive for sure though.
Not even gonna post numbers.
I’m Canadian.
Weep for me and my fellow citizens as we are robbed by our telco-oligarchs.
It actually makes me so sad seeing just how low everyone elses plans are. When i was in latvia for a bit, my cell phone plan was like 4€ for a month of unlimited everything. Canadians are getting railed in the butt for prices
It’s all of North America really… folks in the US and Mexico get railed as well.
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.
circa 10€ for 10GB of data and unlimited calls, in Germany.
$25 in the US for unlimited talk, text, and data, from Visible, as part of a party
Same but the throttling on “busy” towers makes even basic web page loading pretty shitty. Decent deal still but the throttling is really bad
Interesting. I’ve never experienced that. Are you in a really populated area?
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)
I have the same, plus a watch plan, two home internets, apple tv, netflix, and i just realized that we were paying insurance on 4 phones (that i need to cancel to save$60!) for $374/mo.
3€ per month
2GB
GermanyI 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 :/
Sim only. 6€, unlimited calls and sms, 6GB 4G data. Netherlands.
For 6€ you should be able to get 5g data at that rate. I’m on 5GB @5G for 5€ on Lebara.
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.
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.
$200 AUD, 200gb data, unlimited calls and texts. Amaysim In Australia.
https://www.amaysim.com.au/sim-plans/12-month-sim-plans/unlimited-200gb
So $200 per year for 200gb per month? Or 200gb per year?
Most UK phone plans are done monthly for everything.
Sorry, wasn’t clear, $200 for 200gb, 1 year expirey. Most are monthly here as well, but there are some yearly plans.
The good part of yearly plans is that I have plenty of data on the rare occasion that I’m on holiday or whatever, but with the lower average cost.
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!)
American, AT&T Prepaid 2gb data, think unlimited texting/calling, $30 a month. Mostly 4g lte, but I also can get 5g e.
I got mine a while ago so ive been grandfathered into 16gb data, unlimited text qjd calling for $25/month.
