{"id":8914,"date":"2012-10-09T18:13:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2012-10-09T18:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:13:45","slug":"spending-less-on-wireless-phone-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/10\/09\/spending-less-on-wireless-phone-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending less on wireless phone bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009, I paid roughly $160 every month for Unlimited Minutes, Unlimited Data and 200 Texts on AT&amp;T. Now I paid roughly $85 every month for 450 Anytime Minutes with Rollover, 5000 Night &amp; Weekend Minutes, Unlimited Mobile to Mobile Minutes, Unlimited Data and 1000 Texts. That&#8217;s because I have been using <a title=\"Google Voice\" href=\"http:\/\/voice.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Voice<\/a>. With the introductions of <a title=\"FaceTime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/mac\/facetime\/\" target=\"_blank\">FaceTime<\/a> and <a title=\"iMessage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ios\/messages\/\" target=\"_blank\">iMessage<\/a> I manage to reduce the usage on my account; with the exception of calling to other mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Most people I constantly in contact with are using their mobile phones as their primary phones. That&#8217;s when Unlimited Mobile to Mobile Minutes plan becomes really handy. I generally make outgoing calls through Google Voice, which is currently free. I also send text messages through Google Voice, unless the other person is using an iOS device. That&#8217;s when iMessage really shines. I have 1000 Texts plan because AT&amp;T made it a requirement. Of course, I&#8217;m using FaceTime with certain people.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time I would be on Wi-Fi network, but I have used more than 2 GB of data with three days left in the billing cycle. This is one reasons why I am keeping the unlimited data plan on AT&amp;T, and I plan to keep it that way.<\/p>\n<p>I have been saving about $75 every month and that ads up to $900 annually. That&#8217;s quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ATnT-usage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ATnT-usage\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ATnT-usage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009, I paid roughly $160 every month for Unlimited Minutes, Unlimited Data and 200 Texts on AT&amp;T. Now I paid roughly $85 every month for 450 Anytime Minutes with Rollover, 5000 Night &amp; Weekend Minutes, Unlimited Mobile to Mobile Minutes, Unlimited Data and 1000 Texts. That&#8217;s because I have been using Google Voice. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/10\/09\/spending-less-on-wireless-phone-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spending less on wireless phone bill.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1078,1296,1314,1508,933,1594,1872,2091,2229,936],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-facetime","tag-google","tag-google-voice","tag-imessage","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-lion","tag-mountain-lion","tag-os-x","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2jM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}