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Your Two Cents:
$75/month for a smartphone, $55/month for cable internet. The only improvement I could make on that would be to get rid of the smartphone and get a voice-only phone for $45/month, but then I’d need an alternative for the GPS, mapping, directions, reading, music functions ….
We have internet for our laptop (no fancy phones, I just want to call people, please!) and pay $15/mth. Can’t get too much better than that!
About $70 for my combined landline/internet bill. $25 on average for two basic prepaid cell phones.
I spend waaaay too much, despite having everything bundled
I have prepaid phones for me and teen son. We also have a bundle plan with direct tv for cable, internet and landline at together $195.59. Still trying to reduce that.
Getting in before the “we don’t watch TV we just read the great novels” bores! For us, about 80 bucks for TV and internet ($18 more in the months when premiership football is on) and $45 for my smartphone. Decent enough value in my opinion.
This has been my husbands campaign for years- no cell, no cable… The no cable has truly paid off. We allow our young children no main network tv- only Public Broadcasting stations. At Christmas they dont even know what to ask for. They say things like a hippo or a doll. They have missed the commercialization boat and we could not be happier. Imagine their precious little female psyches not being bombarded by how they should look.
I don’t have a cell, neither do my kids, and my son pawned the xbox. We have intermediate internet, basic cable(we spend on DVD’s since TV does not have a lot to offer at times) and a land line, all under 100$ but my daughter loves Youtube and calling her Dad in Lebanon. This pushes our bill up from time to time. (I don’t know how much she spends on I tunes(she uses her babysitting money).
I have cancelled the internet and basic cable, only to come back to it at a fee. I put a password on daughters computer account to limit her access. Still weighing the pros and cons.
Honnestly, what I see is that in the province of Quebec, communication fees are waaayyy much more expensive!
How does a person spend nothing, (I’m a hermit) and vote in this poll using the internet?
@Rosie I was wondering the same thing.
Maybe they access the internet at the Library. ?!?
Someplaces have Wifi available in town, or bootlegged off a neighbor, or at the library etc.
Me – $25 for internet, $15 for texting on cell (it’s a company cell phone so the basic is paid. So $40/month.
No cable and no tv programming. Grandkids just plug in a movie when they visit if the get tired of cards, boardgames, or arts and crafts, or being in the garden…. Nope, they don’t watch many movies !
I spend $191. a month for super high-speed Internet, phone with all the extras, and cable+. I’d like to cut down, but I do so much with my computer and, as a news junkie, most of my shows are quite a ways up the dial.
I’m not WIFI, thank goodness, because I already use up a lot of GB and would hate to have someone “roaming” rack it up even more
I spend an average $7 a month for my prepaid phone (I don’t use it much). Our home phone is VOIP managed by my husband so it’s pretty cheap too, about $10 a month. Hubbie’s work pays for his phone and our internet since he works on call sometimes. If we didn’t have that, we’d probably spend another $100 a month on cell and internet. No interest in cable (unless a la carte options become available), antenna works just fine for us.
Cell $62.52 per Month for 2 phones, no cable, netflix Canada 7.99 per Month, Internet and home phone paid by my employer as I work from home. If we want to watch something that isn’t on Netflix or Itunes (we have an AppleTV box), we buy it on DVD.
Landline and internet DSL – $52.00/month, THAT’S IT!!! Lori above has T-H-E R-I-G-H-T I-D-E-A!!! All this wireless stuff is irradiating our bodies with harmful RF energy that causes C-A-N-C-E-R!!! People need to get off their damn cell phones, ESPECIALLY WHILE DRIVING!!!!! Check out cell phones at http://www.naturalnews.com and http://www.mercola.com to see what a cell phone does to you!
Internet-$39.99/mo through cable company
VOIP phone-$0/mo (one time expense $229 in August 2009)
Prepaid cell phone-$6/mo (average from buying a year’s worth of air time and minutes for $70.)
TV-$0 (over the air)
Good cable (but no movie channels) and a DVR plus the internet is $129 per month. 5 cell phones (me, hubby and kids) all with talk and text but NO internet access $170, for a grand total of $299. We opt NOT to have a home phone because no one calls them unless they are trying to sell you something!
I got a home phone free. TV cable free with 60 chanells. Unlimited Cell phone is $25. Unlimited high speed internet 10 mb is $25. So having TV/Movies, Phone, Cell, Internet is around $50 per month plus tax.