(Hey everybody, Verizon is watching. Follow my lead. Shhh.)
I WILL NOT PAY MORE THAN $9.99 TOTAL FOR DATA SERVICE OF ANY KIND. A PENNY MORE AND I'M SWITCHING TO T-SPRINT & T.
(repeat loudly, everybody)
OK seriously $30 is already too much on top of even the minimum price voice plan, particularly when I'm already paying for high speed internet at home. Webphones have really just turned the corner from sluggish novelty into practical convenient near-necessity. They're not quite all the way transitioned but obviously are our future. At some point we won't need both home data service and phone data service but until then there is expensive overlap. I'm a little nauseous that I'll be quadrupling my monthly phone expense by jumping from pre-paid, non-connected semi-smartphone to the full monty. I already feel like it's way too much to pay given my low usage levels, even my predicted increased usage levels once I get the TB. At some point it's just too much and something has to give, like canceling home service, which I'm not ready to do, or retreating back down to a semi-dumb phone without data service (the lower tiers don't seem like they'd be enough), which I don't want to do but is the less painful option. Whatevs, I'm going to try not to think about it and find ways to make it worth it through the way I use it.