The Weight of Money

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It’s been a year since I started thinking about combing cell phone plans and it’s finally time to take action. I’ve dug up the following details from both the Sprint and Cingular/Att (whats with the wishy-washy name changes?) website - where the partner and I each have a plan. We need to pick one this week.

Normally, I’d favor Making the Call, but I’m feeling all tapped out on calling people. Especially because I’ve called our internet company 3 times trying to move service and still haven’t gotten anywhere.

Here are the details that we’re considering right now:

ATT:

550m 59.99
700m 69.99
1400m 89.99

Rollover minutes, unlimited m2m
$36 activation fee
$26 for additional lines activation fee

Early nights/weekends for $16.99 (7pm-7am)

Data:

SmartPhone 5MB $9.99 - Unlimited $19.99 - Unlimited Max (w/1500 messages)$29.99
– Not for Treo

Data Connect 5MB $19.99 - 10MB $24.99 20MB - $34.99
— For Treo

PDA Personal 20MB $29.99, Max Unlimited 39.99
— For Treo

Messaging:
200 $4.99
400 $9.99
200 and Unlimited M2M $9.99

MEdia:
Basic 400 messages/ 1MB MEdia net 9.99
w/unlimited m2m 14.99
Words 1500 messages/5MB MEdia et 4.99
w/unlimited m2m 19.99

Phones:
Palm Treo 650 (Refurb) $99 (no rebates needed)
Palm Treo 680 (Refurb) $99 (no rebates needed)
Palm Treo 680 $99 (with $200 rebate)
Palm Treo 750 $199 (with $200 rebate)

Sprint:

550m $59.99
700m $69.99
1400m $89.99

Nights start at 7pm

Messages Unlimited Family $20.00 (with 69.99 plan or higher) - not per line, per month

Phones:
Treo 700 $299.99 ($100 rebate)
- can get free activation

Data
40 MB Mobile Broadband 39.99
Unlimited $59.99

Data plans are still priced a bit high for my taste and I’m not sure if we need them. I actually dropped my messaging plan last year because the partner’s phone couldn’t receive them. We currently pay $110 a month, combined for our cell phone plans, I don’t feel like going over that. In fact, I really wanted to go under it, a lot under. Maybe we just switch plans right now and then think about data plans a little later.

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