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So we have an older cell phone plan and it's nice. It's $120 for 5 lines (3 cells 2 tablets) for unlimited data with t-mobile. No contract and they'd love us to give it up. Anyway I was just looking it over again and it is $18 a month in taxes so our actual bill is $137.80. I couldn't believe the taxes on the cell phones. It is $18 on 3 phones. Is this what people are paying? Obviously this has been happening awhile. And it's just been increasing. I mean the state and local tax and regulatory fees. Do you pay that on the cricket? I just wonder if this is what happens?
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Virgin mobile charges me $3.45/month in taxes and fees.
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The taxes decrease with the lower cell bills. Some of those taxes are based on the amount of the bill. But they also vary by location.
We pay $6 tax on a $69 phone bill, in our state/city. I know we paid a considerably larger dollar amount (taxes) when we had a larger cell bill.
We have 6 lines with Ting.Comment
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We are with AT&T and were paying $145 a month for 2 iPhones. One with unlimited data and one with 3gb. We switched to AT&T prepaid with no data and now pay $44.40 per month.Comment
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2 lines with sprint. $3.52 in government taxes and fees but $6.63 in sprint surcharges ::eyeroll:Comment
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so the taxes and fees are $18 or about $6 per phone line. And each phone is $46/month unlimited t-mobile. The entire plan is $120 plus taxes and fees.
MM is it $69 includes all 6 lines? How much data do you use? OMG I just priced ting and using them for three lines for all the data and talking and texting we do it would be $77/line. 3 lines 3500 minutes, assuming 4800 texts and 14 gb of data $231. Okay so no prepaid unless it's unlimited.Comment
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Yes, 6 lines. We are generally under 1,000 MB. We use wifi most of the time.Originally posted by LivingAlmostLarge View Post
I use the phone minutes a lot and my husband probably uses most the data. No one in our family particularly texts. My kids probably do most their texting over wifi.
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Got it. Yikes. I think we're going to have to stick to our old boring plan. I Wonder if google fi would work?Comment
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Verizon. 2 lines. About $10 of my bill are taxes.BrianComment
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I was out of town when you started the thread and forgot to respond until I got the latest bill.
We have 5 phones. Taxes and fees come to $6.69/phone so $33.45 total each month.
The breakdown is $1.99 Administrative Fee, $1.26 Federal Universal Service Charge, $1.25 Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge, $0.90 911 Service Fee, and $1.29 NJ State Sales Tax. I have no idea what the first 3 items are. The last 2 are self-explanatory.Steve
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