A family of 4 now easily has a $200/mo wireless bill.
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There are several ways to cut that bill in more then half. Family plans, pre-paid, etc.
Now if you have unlimited data, text, etc plans, yeah your costs could be quite high. But that’s no different then a $45 basic cable vs. $100 with all the HBO/etc channels. There’s room to scale that back.
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Absolutely. Stick to basic calling. No downloads, ringtones, internet, etc…
But how will cutting back by households give the mobile carriers the incremental revenues/profits to pay for peak-price infrastructure investments of the past few years? At the same time, the carriers are losing wireline customers every day and calling tariffs are dropping.
T-Mobile invested the least of the big carriers and they will be rewarded by being able buy technology at much lower prices.