[SisleyLawrenceLoubet]

Also what a lot ppl dont say about the Virgin offer is that you dont have to pay the entire amount of the Iphone upfront. You can do a plan up to 18months. Which means instead of paying $650 upfront let's say you decide to pay in a 10months period of time, then it will be $65/ months (NO INTEREST) + the actual plan $35, $45 or $55 (discount of $5 if you enroll in Auto Pay).Short term you will probably pay around the same than a regular plan with other carriers but long term you won't and with NO CONTRACT. And phone nowadays can be unlocked... it was already before ATT released the unlocked one...
It's seems a pretty good deal I believe which at least need a try.

Personally $100 and more with ATT, Sprint or Verizon is called fooling people. Think about it, if a carrier can do a prepaid at $30/ months w. the Iphone then they could ALL do it. But the "stealing people's money and make the rich richer" is probably the best plan...

[LiveBrianD]

SisleyLawrenceLoubet, on 30 June 2012 - 01:32 PM, said:

Also what a lot ppl dont say about the Virgin offer is that you dont have to pay the entire amount of the Iphone upfront. You can do a plan up to 18months. Which means instead of paying $650 upfront let's say you decide to pay in a 10months period of time, then it will be $65/ months (NO INTEREST) + the actual plan $35, $45 or $55 (discount of $5 if you enroll in Auto Pay).Short term you will probably pay around the same than a regular plan with other carriers but long term you won't and with NO CONTRACT. And phone nowadays can be unlocked... it was already before ATT released the unlocked one...
It's seems a pretty good deal I believe which at least need a try.

Personally $100 and more with ATT, Sprint or Verizon is called fooling people. Think about it, if a carrier can do a prepaid at $30/ months w. the Iphone then they could ALL do it. But the "stealing people's money and make the rich richer" is probably the best plan...

Of course, if you do that 18 month plan where Virgin's subsidizing the phone (though they're already doing that a little as it is), you'll be stuck in a contract as usual, right? That said, I have to wonder how some people pay $100/month. I'm paying $30 for my tmobile plan, plus I bought the phone outright (a Nexus) for $400.

[RaynardPackard]

Hey can the VM iPhone Mobile Hotspot really power my business computer (Mac), xBox, and wi-fi TV simultaneously?

[joesmith127]

SisleyLawrenceLoubet, on 30 June 2012 - 01:32 PM, said:

Also what a lot ppl dont say about the Virgin offer is that you dont have to pay the entire amount of the Iphone upfront. You can do a plan up to 18months. Which means instead of paying $650 upfront let's say you decide to pay in a 10months period of time, then it will be $65/ months (NO INTEREST) + the actual plan $35, $45 or $55 (discount of $5 if you enroll in Auto Pay).Short term you will probably pay around the same than a regular plan with other carriers but long term you won't and with NO CONTRACT. And phone nowadays can be unlocked... it was already before ATT released the unlocked one...
It's seems a pretty good deal I believe which at least need a try.

Personally $100 and more with ATT, Sprint or Verizon is called fooling people. Think about it, if a carrier can do a prepaid at $30/ months w. the Iphone then they could ALL do it. But the "stealing people's money and make the rich richer" is probably the best plan...

The real issue; isn't $650 a ridiculous amount of money for a telephone, whether it is pre paid or on contract? I want an iphone but having grown up poor I can't put that much money into a telephone. But, I am glad that I bought that Apple stock last year.

[BrentMatthies]

BangBangAnnie, on 08 June 2012 - 06:48 AM, said:

What all your comparisons are missing is that Virgin includes the fees and taxes (except for local sales tax) in the price of their quote. The major carriers don't. Last time I was on a contract, the myriad taxes and fees added nearly 33% on top of the monthly bill as originally quoted. So hike your totals by at least 30% for the big three for a more realistic comparison and you'll see how much more you would truly have to pay.

I'm not sure how this can be correct... I've had contracts with Sprint and T-Mobile, and been on a family plan of AT&T. I've never seen taxes/911 charges/regulatory fees/etc amount to more than $5 or so. Of course, taxes will increase as the amount of the plan increases, but they are at a fixed percentage. On my last T-Mobile bill with a base price of $70, my taxes and fees were about $4.50 or so. In general, for an individual cellular postpaid plan, I allow about $5 for taxes and that's usually a fairly accurate ballpark figure. Are you sure you weren't including additional fees for messaging, additional data, or overages?

This post has been edited by BrentMatthies: 12 July 2012 - 12:19 PM

[BrentMatthies]

RaynardPackard, on 06 July 2012 - 10:30 AM, said:

Hey can the VM iPhone Mobile Hotspot really power my business computer (Mac), xBox, and wi-fi TV simultaneously?

In theory, it could. However, since VM utilizes Sprint's network for 3G, I wouldn't plan to use it to provide bandwidth for ANYTHING. Sprint's network is terrible! The data speeds are outrageously slow, and the latency is extremely high, which increases wait time even more. You cannot stream videos or even music at Sprint's speeds, and just checking your email, Facebooking and uploading a few pictures is a painful experience. If you were to try to run computers, gaming devices and/or Smart TVs with this connectivity, almost everything would be inoperable.

Keep in mind, what you are asking is definitely possible with WiFi hotspot -- you just need to have a powerful enough network behind it to support it. If you had a WiFi hotspot device with one of the new LTE networks, I wouldn't see any reason why it wouldn't work... you'd just be paying a lot more for the service.

[BrentMatthies]

JeanetteSimmons, on 10 June 2012 - 11:25 AM, said:

it would be nice for me if somewhere it shows the area the cell phones would work and who are the carriers.

There IS a place where it shows this information... it's called the internet. Try googling "cellular providers" and you'll be amazed at what you can find. You can look up individual phones on phonescoop.com and that site will tell you which carriers have the phone, and whether or not it is currently for sale or if it has been discontinued.

This post has been edited by BrentMatthies: 12 July 2012 - 12:21 PM

[DouglasAlvarez]

You don't have to be worry for the minutes because you really don't make home calls just cell phones. I paid 53 dollars per month in my family plan.

[CvsDv]

Virgin mobile! Do not touch very bad service.

[ErikHenderson]

Virgin mobile charges $35 for 300 min, 30 with discount for using a charge card. There unlimited plan is $55 or $50 if you use a card. It comes out to 18 hundred and change. Anyway this little report is total crap.

[polishbroadcast]

Virgin Mobile service in Chicago is so unbelievably terrible i can't even believe they are allowed to be in business. I have an hour commute on a bus and a train and sometimes it takes 5 minutes to load 1 text email. I have to have 5 bars of service before i can even think of loading a webpage. I wouldn't even care about all of that since the service is so cheap but i can't even have a conversation at my house with the cellular service. I have to the front of the house and stand by one certain window to hear about 3/4ths of what the person is saying. This isn't worth the $400-500 savings and i won't bother with Sprint since Virgin is supposedly using Sprint's network. Avoid at all costs!

[polishbroadcast]

Virgin Mobile service in Chicago is so unbelievably terrible i can't even believe they are allowed to be in business. I have an hour commute on a bus and a train and sometimes it takes 5 minutes to load 1 text email. I have to have 5 bars of service before i can even think of loading a webpage. I wouldn't even care about all of that since the service is so cheap but i can't even have a conversation at my house with the cellular service. I have to the front of the house and stand by one certain window to hear about 3/4ths of what the person is saying. This isn't worth the $400-500 savings and i won't bother with Sprint since Virgin is supposedly using Sprint's network. Avoid at all costs!

[SimplyDeeJay]

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Virgin mobile charges $35 for 300 min, 30 with discount for using a charge card. There unlimited plan is $55 or $50 if you use a card. It comes out to 18 hundred and change. Anyway this little report is total crap.

sir, the unlimited plan is purely optional. this report is basing it on the lower-tier plan, which gives you unlimited texts and internet but only 300 minutes.
with a charge card - (30*24) + 649 = 1369. proper.

at the highest tier and with the current price, it STILL only comes to 1649. silly goose.

[SimplyDeeJay]

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Sprint advertises the iphone as having everything although the 450 minutes for that plan in this article comes with 450 landline minutes. Virgin Mobile customers will also be throttles on their data speeds so basically you get what you pay for.

as a VM user, i can tell you that that isn't true. our 3g data is unlimited. haven't tested our LTE just yet, but there's no data throttle or limit. never experienced it and i use upwards of 10-12gb of data a month...