how many minutes do you use your mobile phone for per month?

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i cant decide whether to get a deal with 100 minutes anytime or 200 minutes anytime any network. only accepting the first one seems to be admitting i heardly use with all the social ramificiations that comes with, while if i get the 200 one, its an extra 7 quid per month. obviously i know this is my decision and only i know how much i use my phone but this is confusing, there are simply too many deals out there.

― vickie, Sunday, 17 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

100 minutes? Shit, I probably use about 3 minutes. I'm not a big fan of calling people (or vice versa), especially socially. I only use it when I'm in desperate need. I prefer to text people.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

less than a 100 i'm sure. My cell phone is used for coordinating and logistics, and not much more. I don't like to talk to people.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

also, I have no roaming and like a billion rollover minutes.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

15 minutes.

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea, but I know I never come *near* the 60 free minutes I get per month. Some months it's zero.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I am still a pay as you go luddite, and I put £5 in my phone about every two months. I care not about the social ramifications.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I don't really like talking on the phone that much, but I somehow managed to use 349 of my 350 minutes last month.

(!!)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

450 - 500 per month.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

I get 250 minutes a month, but don't need anything like that. I've built up a swimming pool full of about 800 unused minutes now.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

okay, i think im going to try and call more people more often, i supose this means calling up people i havent spoken to in ages and being a lot more social (phone-wise).

― vickie, Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

not enough for what i fucking pay for it, that's for sure

― strng hlkngtn, Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Seems like cell phone plans are way smaller in the UK. I wish I did pay as you go.

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't own a mobile phone. They are evil.

― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

i use about 800, but i don't have a landline (and i have a girlfriend who doesn't live in the same city as i do).

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

My cell phone is my main line as well.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I probably text message more than anything else.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

My wife and I keep one in the car for emergencies. Service is spotty around here so it gets used infrequently. Pay-as-you-go works for us.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

i use one more when im dating someone. when i was with my ex, my bills skyrocketed.

― boredgirlie, Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I send about 3 or 4 text messages a month. Less than 2 minutes on calls.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

i havent owned one for over 6 months now but considering i dont know anyone here itd be kind of useless. when i did have one i was first on a plan which was $45 but ballooned to over $200 a month for reasons i still cant work out (i barely used it) accept that it was with telstra (australian phone co). i bought myself out of the plan (kept the phone) and got virgin prepayed. it was great. $15 a month for the same usage, if that. australia doesnt go by minutes, it goes by dollars and when someone calls you, you dont get charged for it. with myself, and with most people i know, 99% of cellie calls consist of 'hey, where are you at? ok ill see you in 10 minutes' or something to that effect. usually lucky to break a minute or two. just be smart and use a landline whenever you can for the long chatty chats. also use work phones when youre at work. thats 8 hours a day you dont get charged for. and try to get free (or cheap) texting and free voicemail.

has anyone used virgin prepaid here in the states?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

don't do the anytime minutes - during office hours use the work phone, innit!!!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 17 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Maybe 2 minutes a month, average...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 17 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I was kind of shocked to receive a £75 mobile bill the other month, considering how many free minutes I have. I can only put this down to Glastonbury, phoning everyone I know in London a couple of weeks ago and some fucker making calls on my lost phone earlier in the month.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 17 July 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Other month = other day.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 17 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

15 min./month average. Sometimes it's zero, sometimes 50-60 if I'm travelling, but I use prepaid minutes that have a 90-day shelf-life, so not a prob either way.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 17 July 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

RH, which carrier do you use for prepaid?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I average 1,000 minutes per month, but this *is* LA, dahlink.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Cingular Free2Go — previously AT&T Wireless until Cingular gobbled them up. I got the phone in late 2001, so it's a (relatively) big ol' clunky Nokia that looks like Maxwell Smart's shoe compared to the sleek little cameraphones that everybody has now.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I rarely use my allotted 300 'anytime minutes' 'cause when I'm at work I use my work phone and my night/weeken dminnutes start at 7 pm. I did, however, go well over my minutes this month and called Sprint, who gave me 240 one time 'courtesy minutes' because I never go over my plan. So um, yeah, if you call me M-F before 7 pm until July 26, call my work phone, please.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Hardly any. This *is* San Francisco, dahlink.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Ok, T-Mobile hot spot, which is part of my data plan that I hate is leaving Starbucks. I don't use the voice plan on my phone very much so I think I might benefit from a prepay plan. Is there any good way to get a US GSM carrier prepaid with reasonable EGPRS data? I like my 2.5 G phone and don't want to move forward yet....

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

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