Cell Phone spending is up

[saptech]

Are we addicted...

Cell phone spending up in tough economy | ksdk.com

A new federal study said spending for phone service went up four-percent last year.

It's an odd sign of the times when people are cutting back on nearly every household expense except their phone bill.

 

[Kamau]

No surprise here.
Society has let a tool become a lifestyle. And now, since everything that was accessible through a pc is now available through a smartphone, we now feel the absolutely necessity to own a cell phone.
People can't seem to go 5 minutes now without talking/texting someone.

 

[gibbs1984]

Yeah and since so much is now available on a smartphone I find that the art of conversation has died.

Just thinking back roughly 5 years ago and people would occasionally text people whilst in the pub but now I find myself with a group of mates all looking at their phones, Facebooking, Tweeting, texting, emailing etc...

All on a Friday night, sometimes I want to rip the phone out of their hands.

I don't cause I'm just as guilty as them

 

[Kamau]

I talk on mine around 200 minutes a month maximum. I send around the same text messages too. Anyone who knows me that the best way to talk to me is face to face. I mainly use my phone to listen to music, keep my pictures handy, and to keep up with the news. I don't take it in the bathroom, text/talk & drive, or have it permanently attached to my ear. I shut it off at bedtime too.

 

[Demache]

I use mine less as a phone and more of a ultra-portable PC that happens to have a phone number.

I probably use maybe a couple hundred text messages and maybe 100 minutes. But damn, I probably easily go through a few GB's every month (thank god for unlimited).

 

[saptech]

Some months I may not use 100 minutes of talk time, but I don't text that much either. That's why I don't have a text plan (.20 per msg) and use GV & Talkatone for texting.

I guess you can say I use mine as more of an ultra portable computer and use around 2-3gb of data per month, I have the 4gb data plan.

The wife & I are thinking about switching to the shared family plan, since we are on separate plans now. She talk more than anything and could use unlimited talk & text.

 

[breadnatty08]

Mine is 3 parts: Email, TT (for here), tethering. Use the whole "phone" function every so often too. Wish Verizon would lower the min. minute allowance for Family Plans. Wife and I share 400 but barely touch any of that.