{"id":36,"date":"2014-07-19T16:38:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T16:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/?p=36"},"modified":"2016-03-08T02:27:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T02:27:41","slug":"the-skyrocketting-cost-of-a-phone-2013-05-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/2014\/07\/the-skyrocketting-cost-of-a-phone-2013-05-17\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skyrocketting Cost of a Phone (2013-05-17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Phone-Old-300x199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Phone-Old-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Phone-Old-300x199\" width=\"184\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 TO &gt;&gt;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Phone-New-300x300.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Phone-New-300x300-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Phone-New-300x300\" width=\"119\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Phone-New-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Phone-New-300x300-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For quite a long while, the basic home service price of the telephone was $20. The competition continued to drive the price further down to today&#8217;s rate of $10 a month. After you add taxes and whatnot, you&#8217;re likely to have a phone bill approximately $20 per month. This roughly translates into a total cost of $240 per YEAR.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>New phone technology has many folks abandoning their old residential landlines in favor of picking up a cellular phone. These phones come with additional coolness factors by having text messaging, internet access, color LCD screens, games, and all the other bells and whistles that makes us coo.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s norm is that each person needs their own individual phone as opposed to entire families sharing one residential landline. Cell phone pricing plans can vary greatly. There&#8217;s family plans, add a line, rollover minutes, internet access rates, etc. Today&#8217;s plans can range anywhere from $50 to over $150 a month depending on the options selected. A basic unlimited voice plan from AT&amp;T is $70 a month (add taxes and fees and we&#8217;re closer to $80 per month). A voice only plan without data translates into almost $1000 per year. If you add data to your voice plan, you can easily exceed $1000 a year for a personal telephone. My significant other continues to pay $130 a month for her cell phone ($1560 per year).<\/p>\n<p>Is it really worth paying $1000+ a year to be &#8220;connected&#8221;? Are we going to die if we don&#8217;t receive a text the instant that it is sent? I&#8217;m pretty sure that everyone has their own opinion on how much being &#8220;connected&#8221; is worth to them. I&#8217;m also pretty sure that the folks from 30+ years ago managed to survive without this technology. Maybe some day, prices may eventually drop once people realize they can live without needing to be &#8220;connected&#8221;. On the other hand, if the phone market trend continues, we may see our phone bills reach the $2000 a year mark.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0\u00a0 TO &gt;&gt;\u00a0 For quite a long while, the basic home service price of the telephone was $20. The competition continued to drive the price further down to today&#8217;s rate of $10 a month. After you add taxes and whatnot, you&#8217;re likely to have a phone bill approximately $20 per month. This roughly translates into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":1359,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prattini.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}