Smartphone data plans are a ripoff: Do you agree?

Smartphone data plans are a ripoff. They charge $35 for a measly 2 GB of data on top of $20 for voice service. That is $55 for a basic smartphone service for 1 person. Additional data is $15 per GB. So for 3 GB of data plus voice you pay $70 a month! That is outrageously expensive. A little over $16 a GB not including price of voice.

My home internet has unlimited bandwidth up to 30 mbps for $45 a month. I average about 110 GB a month. That equals about 40 cents per GB. I have no cap. Why would anyone pay for a smartphone plan when home internet is so cheap?

My tablet can connect to WiFi hot spots for free. WiFi hot spots are everywhere. If you really need to connect outside your home it isn’t hard to find one. Why pay for mobile data? Just about every smartphone nowadays is WiFi enabled. Most people don’t even use half their data. They conserve it cause they are worried about going over and being charged prohibitively high overage charges. Most smartphone users connect to free/home Wifi anyway.

Mobile data is the modern snake oil. It is a huge ripoff and these greedy mobile carriers are raking in billions because their data plans are mandatory. I highly doubt that even a third of their customers would pay for a data plan if they were optional.

I’m probably one of the very last holdouts for smartphones because of the mandatory ripoff data plans these companies impose on everyone. The average smartphone bill for Verizon is $148 a month. With all other carriers averaging well over $100 a month. Just for a piddly amount of overpriced data and voice.

Note: Even if you supply your own phone, these companies still require yo to have a data plan.