Phone & Internet Plans by the Numbers: Data Use, Plan Choice, Contract vs Device-Free Costs, Family Plans, Home Speed Needs & Switching
Find out what your phone and internet plans really cost and which would suit you better: read your own data use, pick the cheapest plan that fits, compare a contract with a financed phone against a plan without a device plus buying the phone outright, split family plans fairly, estimate the home speed you need and check whether switching pays off, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
In this course you check phone and internet plans with a spreadsheet instead of a sales pitch. You read twelve months of fictional bills to find your average and peak data use, price every plan in your busiest month including extra data, and pick the cheapest plan that covers your peaks with MINIFS and INDEX/MATCH. You compare a 24-month contract with a phone against buying the phone outright with a cheaper plan, turn promotions into a real average monthly cost, split a family plan equally, by use or as a hybrid, size your home internet speed tier, test a bundle against separate services and find the break-even month of switching provider.
Lessons
- Your Usage: Monthly Data, Minutes, the Average and the Peak Month Pro
- Choosing a Plan: the Cheapest Plan That Covers Your Peak and the Cost of Extra Data Pro
- Contract with a Phone vs Plan Without a Device: the 24-Month Total Cost Pro
- Promotions: Free Months, Introductory Prices and the Real Average Monthly Cost Pro
- Family & Shared Plans: Shared Data and a Fair Split by Line or by Use Pro
- Home Internet Speed: Simultaneous Users, Mbps per Activity and the Plan Tier You Need Pro
- Bundles vs Separate Services: What You Pay per Service You Really Use Pro
- The Switching Check: Exit Fees, Setup Costs, Monthly Savings and the Break-Even Month Pro