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Do you use data while you're out and about or on WiFi? I'm using a pay as you go plan with AT&T - $45/month gets you unlimited minutes and texting and 1G of data, which is usually enough for me. My heavy data usage (music, youtube, Internet, etc) is done at home so durant "count" since I'm on wifi. My husband commutes and blows through that data really quickly though, so he has a contract plan instead since data above the allotment got expensive. We both use iPhone 5S (if that matters).

I used to save quite a bit of money with a pay as you go phone, but for all of the things you listed using yours for, I doubt that you would simply because of the mass amount of data it sounds like you're using. Other than calls and texts, the only things I did were FB, checking my e-mail, and occasionally web surfing. But if you're looking to stream TV shows and music on the go, you're going to end up spending a TON of money to keep up with that.

My husband and I were with at&t and pay about 150 a month together. We've been with them for a number of years and grandfathered in a plan that is not offered anymore including unlimited data and talk. But sprint is having a promotion for at&t and verizon customers where they'll cut your current phone bill in half offering unlimited data/text/talk. It's only been less than a week since we switched so I haven't gotten a good feel of how their network is yet. I haven't experience any major issues so far. I work from home so I mostly use wifi though.

My husband has one through Cricket wireless. We pay $35/month for unlimited text/talk and 1GB of data. They use AT&T towers, so the service isn't any different from my regular At&T plan (I'm still on my family plan, haha). I'm pretty sure you can use any AT&T phone. He doesn't really care about brands or anything, so we got a $50 smart phone, which was eligible for a $50 rebate, so it wound up being free.

Like @PinkElephant: all his heavy data usage is at home, anyways, on WiFi, so the 1gb limit hasn't really been too restrictive.

I'm going to be looking into this once my plan with Sprint is up. We are DONE with big corporations and their stupid 2 year contracts and all the BS that come with them.