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Help with Next Plan
So i normaly pay $15 a month for a phone right.Now if i buy a phone with a 2 year contract for $200 and pay $15 a month for 24 months. In total it will be $560. With thenext plan i will pay $27.09 more on top of the $15 so in total of is $42.09.Now that Payment for 24 months will be $1008 now unless am wroung with somting this seems like a bad deal.Help
Man_of_Steel
Scholar
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72 Messages
10 years ago
The way the Next installment plan works is that you pay an equipment fee monthly + your monthly plan fee until you pay off the full retail price or you do another Next upgrade.
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MicCheck
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14.2K Messages
10 years ago
Most of the "$15 plans" are actually $40 plans with a $25 discount. You no longer qualify for the discount if you take advantage of a discounted upgrade, so the total in the first scenario would likely be $1160.
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sandblaster
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10 years ago
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formerlyknownas
ACE - Sage
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117.1K Messages
10 years ago
One way or another, you pay for the phone AND service AND data plan.
You have options on how that is done.
1. You pay $200 up front for a subsidized phone and $40 PLUS the GB of data per month for a 2 year plan.
2. You pay taxes on the phone up front and a monthly installment under the Edge plan and either $25 per month for service for data plans less than 10 GB, or $15 a month for service for 10 GB or more PLUS the cost of the data plan.
3. You can pay up front for your phone at full retail, either at AT&T store, or elsewhere if you like. You can then use the edge program at either $25 or $15 per month PLUS the cost of data plan.
I repeat You will pay for BOTH the PHONE and the SERVICE. You don't get something for free, you NEVER did.
If you go on the AT&T website it has a calculator so you can add up a service, data and phone cost to get an approximate monthly bill before taxes.
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loganic
Former Employee
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636 Messages
10 years ago
AT&T released this new website that allows you to compare the cost of the phone vs the cost of the plans/service, including if AT&T Next vs contract.
www.attcalc.com/next
Just hit Calculate-the-Value, put in which mobileshare value plan you have, and which phone, and calculate-the-value button. Make sure you hit the 24 month view and . .. Ta-da.
-Alex
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