How much do you spend on your phone in a year?

MLH1

I bought my pay as you go phone 4 years ago for bout €89 I think, and use at the most €30 credit a year, so that works out at bout €52 p/a, a squid a week. :) happy days!

MagicMarker

Billy no mates.

W.Shakes-Beer

€20 a month, so €240 a year. Not bad.

Xios

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

€20 a month, so €240 a year. Not bad.

same

baldbear

MLH1 wrote: »

I bought my pay as you go phone 4 years ago for bout €89 I think, and use at the most €30 credit a year, so that works out at bout €52 p/a, a squid a week. :) happy days!

€30 a year?? Are you having a laugh? or are you a tight arse who rings and hangs up on people so they call you back or what???

I use about €20-30 a month so around €280 a year i guess.

Ghandee

300 pods a month....

Kevin Duffy

Over €800 a year. Fack me, must sort that out.

MLH1

Nope just economical use phone at work for moby calls and use webtexts wherever possibly either at home or work.

Terry

Umm...
Probably about a tenner.

Friends and family are close by or I see them on Facebook.
Work usually involves people calling me.
Webtexts are free (although I only use about 1/3 of them per month).

Looking to get a smart phone for work. That would cost €64 a month. I really don't want to, but I sort of need it for work.

Once spent about 6 months without a phone of any type. That was awesome.

About 30-50 a month... I get double credit free though and I spend most of that too

krudler

my bills average 15-20 quid a month so not that much. I workin the industry and the bills I see people get every month is staggering, upwards of 400-500 a month on a phone and they pay it not a bother, not even business or people who do a lot of travelling, just yapping.

people have no idea how to use their mobiles for the most part, you'd be amazed how many people have absolutely no idea what plan theyre on, hell some people still think it costs more to ring outside the county :pac:

tommy89

40e at the moment but thats for a bill pay iphone.. it used to be about 20 a month maybe less with my old phone.. kinda wishing i dint bother with the bill pay now!!

later12

€30 per year?? How?

I did an analysis of my phone bill over 2010 Total spend was €770 including insurance, which worked out at an average of €64 per month, or under €15/ wk. I can't remember exactly what I paid for the phone but I think it was €99. In which case that would increase the average weekly charge to a little over €16/ wk.

I would easily have spent €20 credit on a ready-to-go phone, which would exclude phone insurance and I would still have to buy a handset. If I were to buy an equivalent handset I would probably have incurred an extra charge of just over €770 per annum for the same service between handset (€500), PAYG credit (€174), and phone insurance (approx €100), therefore almost exactly doubling my initial cost to over €1,500. This is why I don't have a pay as you go phone.

decisions

25 a month so 300 squid a year. :cool:

bonerm

€20 per year (10euro top up every 6 months.)

I detest mobile phones and only have one as a means of being contacted. If I have to make a call I'll usually have a landline in reach. If I need to text I'll just do it from a computer.

Mena

Around 6 or 7k but I claim it all back so doesn't really count I guess.

Flojo

25euro a month for free calls and texts. o/

phasers

I haven't bought credit in about 2 years, lol

ScumLord

Terry wrote: »

Looking to get a smart phone for work. That would cost €64 a month. I really don't want to, but I sort of need it for work.

Apparently emobile (eircom) do a business phone with everything, roaming, data, unlimited calls and texts for €50. I'm sure you can get better than €60.

kincsem

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OutlawPete

Have spent up to €500 on a phone a few times, foolish looking back but I get quite twitchy for new gadgets and have to have them. Credit I don't spend too much on as I have the €20 per month O2 deal with free cinema tickets and that does me for texts and minutes.

MLH1

bonerm wrote: »

€20 per year (10euro top up every 6 months.)

I detest mobile phones and only have one as a means of being contacted. If I have to make a call I'll usually have a landline in reach. If I need to text I'll just do it from a computer.

Are we the only 2 sane people here, I have the most battered cheap phone for 4 years and have no intention of changing it till it no longer functions.

brummytom

£20 a month, but I usually go £5 over that, so around £300 a year

seanybiker

480 for phone and about 30 a month credit

PseudoFamous

€20/month, so €240 a year. Used to be one hell of a lot more until I got those free texts and weekend calls.
Tend to buy a new phone every two years, usually around the €200 mark, so throw another hundred on top of that. Quite literally just ordered an LG Optimus 7 to replace my SE W705, which is on it's last legs.

Anyway, in summary, about €340/year

Aishae

my phone was 170 or so (140 with old one traded in) and i spend anywhere between 10-and 20 a month. i only use text though.

Jesus Wept

phasers wrote: »

I haven't bought credit in about 2 years, lol

someone buys it for you?

MLH1

mind bogglin how some people are throwin away money on wrong plans!!

Penfailed

Absolutely nothing - company mobile

Terry

ScumLord wrote: »

Apparently emobile (eircom) do a business phone with everything, roaming, data, unlimited calls and texts for €50. I'm sure you can get better than €60.

That's who I was looking at.
It's €64 including the phone, the fact that I'm an eircom customer and VAT after that.

phasers

The-Rigger wrote: »

someone buys it for you?

Nope, just never need credit. I webtext when I'm at home or if something's really urgent I send a call me. Having no credit's really peaceful, everybody knows by now that I never have credit so they don't text me with inane crap

Jesus Wept

You are beating the system imo.

Wibbs

Around a tenner a month I reckon.

bnt

I've settled on €20 top-up every 6 months; I paid less before, but Meteor tried to cut me off. I could make it less, but the last couple of times the €20 triggered a lot of free texts and minutes as I topped up, so that'll do. They don't like me ... :rolleyes:

Chris P. Bacon

I spend way to much!

AlmightyCushion

Terry wrote: »

Umm...
Probably about a tenner.

Friends and family are close by or I see them on Facebook.
Work usually involves people calling me.
Webtexts are free (although I only use about 1/3 of them per month).

Looking to get a smart phone for work. That would cost €64 a month. I really don't want to, but I sort of need it for work.

Once spent about 6 months without a phone of any type. That was awesome.

If you don't use your phone that much (which you certainly don't seem to) don't waste money on a contract for a smartphone, get a sim free one. More costly at first but it will work out cheaper in the long run.

Savage Tyrant

€65 / €75 per month.

Mint Sauce

About €25/month. All calls and txts free to my own network. Then have minutes to all other networks and landlines, national and international. 100 other network txts.

Most of my spend on outside of that is on international txts. Always have serveral txts sent by the time I think about using the online txts.

Have no intention of changing my phone at the mo. Have had my smartphone over 2 years, does everything I want. The usual calls and txts function, camera and video function, wi-fi, free voice guided sat nav with free worldwide maps and updates both for driving and walking, free software updates for the handset. Still works perfectly, and looks well bar the odd scuff around the edges.

blockedPaT

About 20 a month get free texts too

df1985

bout 800-900. iphone bill plus roaming charges.

Bob the Builder

€1,100 per year

Kojak

I don't spend any money on my phone - I use smoke signals instead.

Ardennes1944

20 euro a month for free texts, like all the good people in this world

Softair

Bob the Builder wrote: »

€1,100 per year

jesus, thats steep.

OPENROAD

Mobile dog : average 20 euro per month = 240 per year.

Landline Dog : mainly for broadband , 600 Euro per year

Kevin Duffy

Bob the Builder wrote: »

€1,100 per year

Can you reduce it? Yes you can!

mikemac

€15 a month or so

Have my current phone three years and the one before it four years
I make them last!

Corruptedmorals

Used to be €25 a month, €20 for free texts and the €5 to supplement it. Now I have no money and can't look for a job just yet it's about €5 every 2/3 months- the rest is webtexts and call-me's, with facebook chat as a substitute...

Seachmall

Nothing.

Came with the job.

Daegerty

Definitely no more than 20 a month. less when i'm abroad cause it's not so much of a rip off over theree