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Originally Posted by JordanLee
(Post 8703299)
Got roughly the same plan for my parents.
10GB
$110 mainline w/ HUP ($90 as bring your own device) (Also after $15 credit)
$30 each line after that w/o HUP (After $10 credit)
Thing is my credits are both for 24 months. And yes it is a Share Everything Plus plan. Not bad at all...And if you do go with a HUP it is cheaper than buying a phone outright over the long term. Because youre paying $20 extra a month. thats $240 + tax over the year plus the cost of an iPhone 6S+ is $609. So $849+ tax essentially.
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$20 in comparison to which plan?
You probably miscalculated because a contract term is 2 years, not 1. So in reality, you're paying $480 more, plus the iphone 6s price.
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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp
(Post 8703343)
I wouldn't call them little upgrades. Used my mom's iphone4 and compare to my iphone 5s it piss me off how slow the iphone 4 open apps and we are talking about stuff like what's app and wechat only. 512MB of RAM won't do it these days. Also most iphone 4 have been on the market for a few years now and battery life on these phones aren't the best. I know my mom iphone 4 barely made it through the day and she barely use her phone. With Iphone is usually every other gen you see big improvements. Iphone 4 VS iphone5 or Iphone 4s VS Iphone 5s. So upgrading from IP4 to IP5s you are going to see a big improvement.
Sure you might not use your data now but what about the future. Change of jobs, life or maybe you move or your jobs requires you to be away from the city where there isn't very good shaw wifi. Or you switch ISP? Shaw Wifi might be good if you are going to be in the same spot. Try driving or taking the skytrain. Shaw wifi won't connect very well when you are on the go. I try that shaw wifi didn't work out.
Cell phone providers aren't going to come up with better plans then when you had an awesome old plan. I would keep it as long as I can and buy my phone outright.
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You misunderstood what I meant, I meant each generations, iphone 4 to 4s, iphone 4s to 5, iphone 5 to 5s, etc. are little upgrades. I won't argue that iphone 4 is very outdated in terms of hardware and upgrading to a 5s or 6 is definitely a no brainer.
As for plans and the circumstances you're talking about that PROBABLY will arise once every few years (aside from going out of city), and telus is already putting up wifi's around the city. So think about how much you're paying just to prepare for these changes, that might not even happen. I'm not saying get a plan without no data. Get 1GB of data as back up, obviously not to stream videos while driving. Any time you're not on wifi, you can still receive messages.
If you're just paying $80/month to keep a plan you barely use, in prepare for some changes that might happen in the next 2 - 10 years, than I think it's pretty stupid. By the time that "change" comes, you already throw thousands of dollars that you could have saved, out the window, and are you really going to be like "finally, those phone bills paid off?" If such changes do come, you can always go back on a monthly plan but just without as much data as you have now, it's still not that big of a lost especially when you find ways to adapt to your phone usage after the "change".
Either way, which is why I ask, do you actually use up 80% of your plan. Evaluate your phone usage for the past 12 months, and prepaid just might save you a thousand bucks.
