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.
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!
Ya, US dollar is 0.79 GBP. So my $40 plan would “only” be £31. Still much more expensive for sure though.
I’ve got 30GB + calls/texts for £8/month.
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.
Ireland. €10 / around $11 USD a month for unlimited everything.
Limited to a 4G data connection. 15 a month if I want to move to 5G but I haven’t had any real need for the extra speed since I’m mostly using WiFi.
Edit: just ran a speed test there. 42Mbps on the mobile connection.
May not even be much faster anyway.
I have 4G phone, my dad has a 5G phone. I asked if I could check the network speed. 45Mbps on 4G, 50Mbps on 5G. Meh. And the more people move to 5G the slower it will get, and the faster the 4G gets. I’ve seen this with 3G before shutdown, it was by far faster than overloaded 4G.
Coincidentally I just ran a speed test as you were typing. 42Mbps. Perfectly happy with what I’m getting. It’s more than enough for when I’m out and about.
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.
UK, £8 a month for 12Gb, unlimited calls and texts, Europe and US roaming included. However, the speed of the roaming just is garbage, completely useless for anything other than text only IMs. If you pay the daily premium, it suddenly improves to useful speed.
Roaming anywhere else is expensive enough to bankrupt a billionaire, something like 50p a Mb, yes Mb not Gb. And that’s on top of a daily roaming charge that’s mandatory in those regions.
Normally I just pick up a local sim when abroad as the roaming is just garbage.
something like 50p a Mb, yes Mb not Gb
Well, well, well. Let’s look at my carrier.
Within EU: €0.014/MB
Within Europe outside EU + US and Canada: €2/MB. That’s £1.66 per Megabyte.
North America (excl. US and Canada), South America, Middle East, Asia and africa: €3/MB. That’s £2.49 per Megabyte.
Brace yourself…
Tunisia, Lebanon and Satellite networks (I think that includes ships and planes): €16/MB. That’s £13.29 per motherfucking Megabyte.
USA, I’ve been using a $2.50/month plan from Red Pocket, but this thread reminded me that I need to renew for the coming year, and it appears the price has gone up to $3.75/month now. If that’s really the case, I’m not exactly pleased about that.
It’s just a bare bones plan with 200 minutes, 1000 texts, and 200MB of data. But I’m usually at home on Wi-Fi and I just use a Google voice number so I never really eat into the minutes or texts. I pretty much only use the data for emergencies like if I’m out driving somewhere and I wasn’t able to plan and look up maps ahead of time.
Sweden, cca 50eur/month. Unlimited 5G with free calls and text, 50gb within EU+ some other countries outside, free data sim (in my home modem), up to 4 extra data sim cards for 1.75eur/month.
Czechia, unlimited calls, texts and data. Data speed capped at 10mbit/s (1.25 MB) for 500 CZK/month (~20€). Unlimited data speed is about twice the price. Vodafone
US $20/mo with mint mobile 15gb data cap. Unlimited talk/txt. Sometimes I get 200mbps but it’s usually like 20mbps. I don’t think I’ve gone over 10gb. I work from home and usually use fiber Internet there - $60/mo for 300mbps up/down
Here in the UK, I’m currently on unlimited everything, calls, messages and data, for £18 per month.
Is it actually unlimited or some slow down after x amount?
Three is truly unlimited. I used to have them when I lived in Ireland. For a year it was the only internet at my home, so I worked and had meetings daily with it, my wife would watch YouTube and her classes, and we would both watch Netflix and play some online games. All from hotspoting from our phones. Battery on the phones was a problem, but we never hit any sort of data caps with them, and we were using hundreds of GB per month for sure.
I’d recommend getting a WiFi router with 4G/5G modem if you find yourself in that situation again.
But then that would beat the purpose of only paying one bill for both phone and internet at home.
Nope. Truly unlimited and I’m allowed to tether it as well. So when I’m in hotels away at work, it’s my source of internet for my tablet and laptop.
That is not bad. Who are you with? I’ve got 130gb data, unlimited calls and texts for £13/ month with EE SIM only.
It’s a two year old SIM only deal with Three. I’ve been with then for several years now and this contract expires in three weeks.
According to the app, I can upgrade to their Black Friday offer of the same conditions (unlimited everything) for just £22 a month! 😆
My contract will probably just keep rolling unchanged month to month but I wouldn’t be surprised if Three try and get me to commit to something.
$10/m redpocket.com, US. 1gb/m 5g data plus some big amount of voice+sms. This is way more than I need. They have smaller plans too.
- 5€/month for unlimited voice, text, net (romania) - I don’t use this, since i moved away, but i’ve had this number since '99…
- 35€/month for 25gb net, unlimited voice, text (germany) - it’s a bit more expensive since it includes a phone as well (i got the pixel 8 when it came out).
- 15-20€/month for 5-15gb and unlimited voice/text for my kids, also with phones (pixel 6a)
- 45€/month for home Internet - 1000 down / 200 up (cable), unlimited + landline (which is not connected/in use.
Netherlands - Odido 25€/month Unlimited data, calls and texts in the Netherlands. 45 GB of data and 120 minutes/month of calls in EU.
I also have odido and pay 16, unlimited calls (I think also text), 25GB of data. I think it was 20GB, but we get 5GB extra because my wife also has odido. 25GB is more than enough for my use, I used 12GB max in the last 12 months.
Between $25-$30/month. It’s technically a dollar per gig of data up to 10gb, but I don’t leave the house often so I use only a couple dollars worth. Also unlimited text and talk. In the US.
Cheapest I could find in Sweden. Around 10€. I think it is 3GB data and unlimited calls and texts. Whatever data I don’t use stacks up for a year or somesuch. I have WiFi at home and the office so I don’t really need much data. I would go for a cheaper plan if it existed.
About 10 euro for 12GB
