How Much Money Are You Spending On The Phone?

[DG]

Was wondering what the average spend is on the phone bill for everyone for:

a. Mobile
b. Landlines

for me

a. Mobile is zero for the last 4 years running cos I always seem to get a phone with cashback, i.e. for example this year I pay £30 a month and get a certain amount of free calls and SMS messages included but then each quarter get back a cashback of £90 (i.e. zero)

b. Landline - probabaly zero too, because I either use the mobile or make free calls over the internet using a headset- only thing we do pay for is BT's line rental for the ADSL.

I think our total household landline bill is like £2 to £3 a month and that's only cos my dad don't kow how to use the PC or Mobile phone .. lol.

We call abroad quite a bit but again just make free calls using the mobile phone and a special access number which for some reason is free (if you call before 6pm) which since the places we call are like 3 and 5 hours ahead of us is almost always the case anyway.

So what about the rest of you?

[*Snow White Queen*]

Mine is usually between £20-£30 a month.

[Nikki*]

My mobile bill is around £35 a month, but £30 of that is to pay my basic charge for my line rental, texting/calling/media message allowances, and for the phone they send me for 'free' of course :) I rarely use the landline, and if I do, it's to another ntl numbers, so depending on the time of day it's quite cheap, or free :)

[HIT]

Well my dad pays the landline phone which is a fixed price anyway.

I just bought a new moto so the credit will have to stretch for £5 a month. :blush:

[soraliah]

i have absolutely noo idea what the phone bill is for our landline. im guessing not a lot though because we very rarely ring anyone on it.. at my dads' house anyway.

mobile wise, im on o2 and have a £30 a month contract - although last month i recieved a text from o2 saying there was unusual usage on my phone and needed to ring them. phoned up to find that that month id spent £70. dont know how i managed that tbh.. although i generally do tend to send rather long text messages so that might be why.
my dad pays the bill for my phone so i dont know what o2 has done about my contract but i hope it has stayed at £30! i dont have a clue about these types of things..

[Glittery]

Our landline is about £15 a month and the majority of that is line rental and all the other crap they like to pile on. My mobile is probably about £10 a week.

[Tweety]

Actual calls not alot. I top my mobile up £10 a month and usually have money left on it. I get 300 free texts a month and that usually suits me just fine.

[lucifer devil]

i've just changed my contract and the line rental is £30. i shouldn't go over that.

in the past i've paid one £215 bill and them bills ranging from £70-130. that used to be the average. then i got it down to £25-35.

[MrG]

£25 a month

[Simba T Lion]

I pay $80 a month for my cell and Ed pays for the landline.

Stupid T-mobile with their extra taxes and their outrageously overpriced plans.

Not to mention their coverage and customer service suck saggy boobs :grump:

[rachie004]

I don't pay for my cell phone bill

and I just pay BT for line rental so I can have the internet :) I make all my calls from my cell phone - in fact pretty much everyone calls me on my cell phone, I can only think of 2 people to ring me at home :-/

[Olive]

About £9 per month landline and £25 per month mobile.

I never go over my free minutes or texts.

[purplebutterfly]

£20 for my mobile contract which enough texts/minutes at the monet, and my parents pay about £25 a quater for line rental and £18 a month for broadband.

[JamesZero]

I dont pay the land line... no one really uses it in our house anyway...

My mobile bill is normally around £50.

[Bri-namite]

I'm on Virgin PAYG, and I spend about £10 a week on texts and calls, which is probably far too much.

Probably don't help that I only know like one person on the same network, but PAYG suits me down to the ground.

[DG]

I'm on Virgin PAYG, and I spend about £10 a week on texts and calls, which is probably far too much.

Probably don't help that I only know like one person on the same network, but PAYG suits me down to the ground.


That's crazy!!

£40 a month !!

My friend is on Virgin PAYG and calls abroad on it sometimes :eek2:

I have a Virgin PAYG SIM as wella nd it's my only constant number - otherwise get a new contract phone every year.

If you're spending that much you'd be way better off on a contract!!

It still shocks me how much people are willing to spend on their phones ... £40 a month is £480 a year, to me that's an extra holiday abroad.

[Sofie]

If you're spending that much you'd be way better off on a contract!!


:yes: It would probably work out quite a bit cheaper...

[Ballerina]

about £10 a month on my mobile if that. That's just texts. I only ever make short calls on my mobile if i have to.

[Char_Baby]

Its 40 a month, Ive just had the amount of texts put up as *Someone* is making me go over my limit, but its alright because I get it half price or something, I just have to claim it back every few months from the Carphone Warehouse.

[ButtonMoon]

Our house phone bill is always sky high. Having a teenage sister ensures this. I pay £25 a month line rental for my mobile. I rarely go over this.

[Ilora-Danon]

I spend about £30 a year on mobile credit.
And I don't know how much I spend on the landline - parents pay for that. :p

[DG]

I spend about £30 a year on mobile credit.


You'll make someone a good wife one day .. :thumb: