There's More to the iPhone Than Its Initial Price
by Johnny Rogers
The good news: It's not as bad as we feared. All plans include unlimited email and web, rollover minutes, unlimited mobile-to-mobile, and 200 text messages a month.
All except the cheapest plan
include unlimited nights and weekends minutes; the cheapest plan includes a mere
5,000 of those.
The bad news: It's still going to cost you a pretty penny if you're used to paying $40 a month for a basic service plan.
Real Cost of iPhone: Service Plan Revealed, it will cost:
- $60 a month for 450 minutes
- $80 for 900 minutes
- $100 for 1350 minutes
If you need even more minutes, plans continue to climb up to $220 a month for a whopping 6000 minutes.
Rumor dispelled: There is no voice-only option for the iPhone.
Also, bare in mind, that you will need data service to do all the cool email and web-mapping stuff that you may have seen during the pre-sales launch. Otherwise, guess what? It's just an iPhone you can only make phone calls with and play a few songs.