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How many minutes do you use per month?

Discussion in 'GENERAL Wireless Discussion' started by Andy, Feb 17, 2007.

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How many minutes do you use per month?

  1. 1000 or less

    19 vote(s)
    57.6%
  2. 1001-2000

    7 vote(s)
    21.2%
  3. 2001-3000

    5 vote(s)
    15.2%
  4. 3001-4000

    1 vote(s)
    3.0%
  5. 4001 or more

    1 vote(s)
    3.0%
  1. Andy

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    Hey guys,

    I know we had a thread about this a long time ago, but I think it would be fun to revive our discussion about our calling habits. I will start, here's my usage from my last billing cycle:

    Peak: 174
    Off Peak: 588
    Weekend: 603
    In Calling Peak: 1589
    In Calling Off Peak: 1112

    Total: 4066
     
  2. M in LA

    M in LA Mobile 28 Years Plus
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    Between 3 carriers and Vonage, it can vary. Some months I go bananas and hover near 2000, other months (like this one), I'll be lucky to hit 1000! Some days, I just don't want to talk on the phone...:)
     
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  3. Andy

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    Haha, believe it or not, but I am with you. I have days where I talk for hours, and other days where I don't like to talk whatsoever. I guess I text on those days. ;)
     
  4. Gamer03

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    On average, I use around 700-800 IN (both peak and off peak) minutes, 200 peak minutes, and 100-200 off peak minutes.
     
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  5. M in LA

    M in LA Mobile 28 Years Plus
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    Me too!! And when I get talking I can go for hours (like 4 or 5 sometimes!!!:eek: ). It depends on the person and what's going on in the world (or life, for that matter). It's either feast or famine with me. :D
     
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  6. dmapr

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    Right now my patterns is about 500 to 700 M2M, 200-250 N&W and 100-150 peak.
     
  7. walkguru

    walkguru Wireless Guru
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    DANNY SHARED MINUTES
    USAGE TYPE USED GROUP USED REMAINING
    Anytime* 23 39 811
    Nights & Weekends* 222 259 Unlimited
    Mobile to Mobile* 439 755 Unlimited
    Rollover 0 0 6,134

    View Details for Minutes Used
    View My Overall Current Usage
    Next Bill Cycle : 03/02/2007



    i use about 100 anytime min. a month.

    between 2 and 3 thousand min. for nights and weekends.

    about 3 to 4 thousand min. a month, for m2m.

    thats on 4 lines, with cingular.
     
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  8. Telekom

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    I'm not a big talker. I use between 150 - 225 minutes in a normal month. The only time I 'yak' on the phone is on weekends when I have unlimited minutes. Other than that I use the phone when I need to. If I really need to make a long call during the week I'll use my Skype service at home. For $15 I can call anywhere in the US or Canada for a full year.
     
  9. Jay2TheRescue

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    I usually use between 1,300 and 1,600 mins/mo and about 250mb of data.

    -Jay
     
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  10. hf1khal

    hf1khal Who am I to judge
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    all together add up to around 400 a month (thatn is when I use it for a whole month. If I take the year avg, then it goes down to about 100 amonth 9thanks for lengthy travels which adds some roaming revenue for Cingular. But have learned that having a local SIM in areas that I go to is much cheaper for the amount of use that I do when I travel and this is why I have close to 3300 R/O minutes.
     
  11. Fire14

    Fire14 Easy,Cheap & Sleazy
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    December's usage for me was:

    Anytime: 70
    M2M: 113
    N&W: 99

    Now my 1 daughter

    Anytime: 594
    M2M: 441
    N&W: 1183

    Total all 4 lines
    Anytime: 733
    M2M: 631
    N&W: 1357
     
  12. AshRae84

    AshRae84 ...Formerly YourDream84
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    I honestly use on average less than 50 minutes a month. I NEVER go over a 100.

    But I use about 50 mb of data a month...

    ~*Ash*~
     
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  13. budney

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    I am not a big talker, I average 150 -250 total minutes (Anytime, N&W, & M2M) a month
     
  14. ta206

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    Mobile-to-mobile usually averages 700 a month, 200 anytime, 100 off peak, 60-70 texts. Got rid of the land line - only used it to order pizza anyway :p
     
  15. Blue4Life

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    Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 es70)

    I use somewhere between 1200 to 2500 minutes a month. all but 150 to 200 are anytime minutes and the rest are divided between mobile to mobile and nights and weekend minutes. I dumped my landline phone almost seven years ago.
     
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  16. hf1khal

    hf1khal Who am I to judge
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    I still have my landline as I need it for buiness too. The per minute cost for international call sure are a lot cheaper than using my cell phone. just think 3 cents vs $1 that adds up quickly and the it more than pays for my land line.;)
     
  17. Andy

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    3 cents for international calls? To what countries? My VOIP charges me 3 cents to a lot of European countries...
     
  18. hf1khal

    hf1khal Who am I to judge
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    Well to some. But some are at 19 cents. I mostly use teh 1010 services and when you make a 30 minute call at a time that can add up big time.
     
  19. dmapr

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    Some VoIP providers give free calling to select European countries.
     
  20. wirles

    wirles I'm baaaaaaaaaack
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    I use well over 4k minutes/month. I take conference calls from the road which adds up quickly. Figure on average of (1) 60 minute conference a day and that is 1800 minutes right there. I have no idea about my data, but considering I tether a few times/week and use email 24/7, plus browsing....I get my money's worth on the unlimited data plans.
     
  21. QLR

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    Usage from last month:

    Peak: 446 (461 used total)
    Off Peak: 3290 (3295)
    M2M: 125

    I've been noticing that my usage has been declining over the few months. In December, I used 5000 total minutes with most of my peak allotment gone. As of now, I've used:

    Peak: 448 (451 total)
    Off Peak: 1854 (1859)
    In Peak: 14 (17)
    In Off Peak: 41 (51)
     
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  22. Andy

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    Yeah I've looked into that too. My VOIP service costs me less than $10 a month and I get unlimited everything to U.S. ,Canada, PR, all features, 100 free minutes to Europe and then 3 cents so it's not worth it for me to switch to another carrier because I don't call Europe all that much. ;)
     
  23. Andy

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    That is not bad at all! Do you use Mobile web a lot too which takes away from your minutes?
     
  24. Kalimotxo

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    My usage fluctuates from month to month... thank god for rollover...

    Last month I only used 1600 total

    This month it looks like I will use about 2400 mins.
     
  25. QLR

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    I used to but I rarely used the web during the peak hours; it was primarily at night. Most of my peak data usage came from MMS use. Data was mostly used at night... when I had the web, my total off peak usage was 4000+ minutes. I have since canceled the web so I can control the bill.

    As of now, I've used:
    Peak: 513 (521 total)
    OffPeak: 2055 (2060)
    IN Peak: 24 (30)
    IN Off Peak: 47 (61)

    Looks like I'll deplete this month's allotment of peak minutes :D
     
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  26. hf1khal

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    3 days to go and here is hwere I am at so far:
    Any time: 84
    M2M 220
    N/W: 80
    224 R/O set to expire on 3/4/07

    So it seems that I am going to be at around the 400 avg.
     
  27. Fire14

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    My past usage that I just got my bill for

    Me:
    Anytime -112
    N&W -115
    M2M - 140

    My Wife:
    Anytime - 7
    N&W - 22
    M2M - 47

    My oldest daughter:
    Anytime - 234
    N&W - 890
    M2M - 83

    My other daughter:
    Anytime -279
    N&W - 1140
    M2M - 2712

    So you can see who is the biggest caller & combined we are over the 600 Anytime minute mark, forget N&W and M2M.
     
  28. RadioFoneGuy

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    I use between 3000-5000 a month with my company test phone, which were also allowed to use for as much personnal use as we want.

    There are times I will call a movie hotline and drive around for hours checking for problems or drive testing.

    Far as data I have to be up there. With the EDGE Card and the CrackBerry who knows.
     
  29. kjo

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    Average maybe 10 to 15 minutes. I know I'm so boring.

    On the home phone/Sunrocket phone... tons! :browani: why ? because it's free! :)
     
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  30. Andy

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    I use Sunrocket too for my home phone! Love it. ;)

    Today is the 10th day of my cell phone billing cycle and here in my usage:
    Peak: 89
    Off-Peak: 102
    Weekend: 403
    In-Calling Peak: 332
    In-Calling Off-Peak: 219
     

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