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Originally Posted by SBJ
not when you read what the thread starter said... Why pay for more BW for your phone every month when you only want it a few times a year for vacations. The one he posted is no contract and the gigs he buys today can be used next week or next year.
He pays $35 a month for 2 phones now.. Someone posted that they pay $55 a month and get 20gig. That is great if you use that 20gigs. This guy wants to use 10 gigs on vacation or from time to time. Why would you pay more EVERY month for something you'll only use on vacation?
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There's a major carrier in Australia that allows you to:
- Share included data between two or more phones on your account (eg if one account has 500MB and the other has 1000MB, they share the 1500MB pool)
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Add up to 5 extra data devices for a one-off fee of $5, no ongoing, which also share the included data pool
- In addition, excess data charges are in line with plan fees, automatically extending as if you were on a more expensive plan, rather than being ridiculously excessive penalty rates that are like 20 times what you pay for the first few gigs
So I have a backup data dongle that cost me $35 to set up (including the price of the USB dongle) and $0/month. It's worked well because I've only had to use it one day in 13 months.
Hopefully this novel approach will catch on... but knowing my luck, they'll phase it out by the time it comes time to recontract.
