- The best cell phone plans of 2022.
Switching cell phone plans is a great way
to save money every single month.
And sometimes they get better coverage,
better features when you do.
Let's start with our favorite unlimited plan,
Visible's plan.
- Visible is owned and operated by Verizon.
They are Verizon.
What don't you get?
You don't get stores.
You don't get phone support.
You do get all the great Verizon service
and good chat support, and online support.
So they also don't get 3G with this plan,
but 3G is going away in the beginning of 2022.
So who needs that anyway?
- This plan includes unlimited data.
It's an unlimited plan,
unlimited minutes, unlimited messages,
mobile hotspots included, calling to Mexico
and Canada is included.
5G coverage is included,
and the thing that's really great about Visible,
when you add four people to your party,
so you have a party of four, including yourself,
your plan's gonna cost $25 a month,
- Right. - and everyone is responsible
for their own bill.
It's like a family plan where it's just one bill
and you have to Venmo your friend or your mother,
or whoever. - Exactly. Venmo your mother.
Yeah, I couldn't do that if I tried.
How much is Visible for one line?
- $40 a month which is still a pretty good deal
on unlimited data.
When you start adding people to your party though,
so if you have a party of two, $35 a month per line.
Party of three, $30 a month per line.
Party of four or more, $25 a month per line,
and Visible also recently added Apple watch cellular plans
for $5 a month. - Really?
- Which, and unlimited data on that too,
which is a pretty good deal, so,
- That's a great deal. - Yeah, so
if you're looking for an Apple watch cellular plan
to go with your cell phone plan,
- That's a great deal.
- Yeah, if you're looking for an Apple watch,
just get a party of four.
$30 a month for that, is, - Yeah.
- it's very good deal.
- It's like getting eight lines for $30 a month.
- It's really great.
- That's a great deal. How 'bout that?
What about a party of five? How much then?
- $25 a month.
- Per line? What about 6?
- It's $25 a month.
- How many lines can I have?
How many people in the party?
What's the maximum?
- I don't know.
- What if I want to get my entire college in on this?
- I don't know if there is a maximum.
- There is not.
- Is there not a maximum?
- There's no maximum
in this party. - Oh wow, okay.
- So let's say you're a college student and you're popular.
I don't know what that's like,
but you've got a lot of friends
and you don't want to pay a lot of money
for your cell phone bill,
so you get every single person at that college
to sign up for your party pay plan.
You only pay $5 a month then.
- Yep.
- Yeah.
- Refer a friend, $5 a month for you and that friend.
I think there's a cap at one year,
but still, a year of of service for $60.
That's pretty good. - Pretty good, yeah.
You know, maybe you can make it part
of your sorority or fraternity initiation process.
- Sign up for this plan.
- Sign up for this plan is required.
Let's talk about our favorite MVNO plan,
it's the Mint Mobile 10 gigabyte prepaid plan,
10 gigabytes of high-speed data, including 5G,
unlimited minutes, unlimited messages, mobile hotspot,
Mint Mobile, I think, has the best ads of any carrier.
- I mean, (dreamy harp music)
my mom and I were in the car the other day
and we actually spent a few minutes talking
about how charming Ryan Reynolds is.
- Okay. - He's just,
I can't not like him.
He's probably the most charismatic person.
I mean him, Chris Pratt.
- The ads are really good.
Mobile hotspot is included.
(dreamy harp music) - Can we just talk
about Ryan Reynolds, please?
- Wifi. Calling also included.
So the $20 a month
for this plan is the three month intro offer.
So, you can lock in that price after that three months,
if you renew for a full year.
So, what we recommend doing is,
take that three month intro offer,
$20 a month, $60 upfront.
See if you like Mint Mobile, if they're for you,
renew for the full year, lock in that price.
- Right, that's the deal.
Mint Mobile is a great plan for a great price.
(dreamy harp music) Owned by Ryan Reynolds.
- Yep, and they are a T-Mobile MVNO,
pretty reliable coverage there,
especially if 5G is important to you
because T-Mobile is leading the way in 5G.
- Right, they really are.
Our favorite cheap plan is $10 a month.
It's Tello Mobile's one gigabyte plan.
One gigabyte of high speed data,
and then unlimited low speed data after that.
And that's true for the Mint Mobile prepaid plan as well.
Unlimited minutes, unlimited messages, you know,
pretty basic plan, pretty cheap, $120 a year.
- That's a good deal.
A lot of people are at home nowadays,
on wifi most of the time,
you probably don't need a lot of cellular data.
You can save a ton of money.
I mean, just do the math. - Yep.
- You can actually check on your phone, too,
see how much data you using every single month,
and if it's really low or if you just don't use data at all
because you have wifi all the time, as you said,
switch to a $10 a month plan. - Right.
- Really easy to do.
- So, I'm going to build a calculator, David, for people.
We'll drop a link in the description below.
You can go to upphone.com to this calculator that I'm going
to build between the time of right now
and when this video comes out,
and then you can see how much data you use per month,
if you go to the iPhone settings app.
Should we show people how to do it real quick?
- [David] If you have an iPhone, open the Settings app,
tap cellular.
First, look at this current period,
44 gigabytes of data, that might scare you.
But the current period is listed at the very bottom.
So 44 gigabytes.
But I last reset my statistics on September 10th, 2020.
- Wow. - So I've used 44 gigabytes
over the past 14, 15 months.
And if you want to do a test for yourself,
just tap Reset Statistics and it'll do whole new period,
I'm currently now at zero bytes.
Our favorite Verizon plan is the Verizon five gigabyte
prepaid plan. We love it so much we both have it.
- We do, but David's sort of falling out of love with it.
- I am a little bit.
So, first month is $40 - Yeah, 40 bucks,
- And then, month two you get the $5 auto pay discount.
And then after three months you get an additional $5 off,
so now you're on a $30 per month.
And then after nine months,
it gets knocked down to $25 per month.
So, if you've been on the plan for a while,
$25 a month on Verizon's network,
five gigabytes of high speed data,
then unlimited low speed data, unlimited minutes,
unlimited messages, mobile hotspot, that's great.
But if you're just switching to this plan now,
it's a little, uh, fuzzier. - Yeah. I mean,
it used to have more international calling features.
- Yeah. And now it no longer includes calling
to Canada and Mexico. - Yeah,
the 15 gigabyte plan does.
What I love about this plan is, I have one line
on my cell phone plan and I can pay $25 a month
on Verizon for one line.
If I had many people, if I was having a party,
I'd go with Visible, - Yep.
- because then I could pay 25 bucks,
but I don't have enough people.
- Don't have any friends,
if you don't have any friends, - No friends.
- there might be a better deal for you.
- Right, exactly.
- But Verizon, you know, best carrier overall,
they keep winning all the awards and,
- Yeah, I think they might also own the award companies,
but, - They might.
- I'd like to welcome Hans Vestberg,
chairman and CEO of Verizon here to Apple Park.
- This plan also includes Verizon's 5G nationwide.
That's their low band 5G.
It's not necessarily faster than 4G LTE all the time.
I mean, I don't really have 5G anyway.
And when I do, it's like I'm driving,
I'm stopping at a gas station on a drive,
and what am I going to do? - Yeah, we've done that right?
- We've done the 5G speed test,
which actually found that the 5G speeds
weren't always faster.
- In fact, they're average because 4G is built out more,
- Yeah, - average.
I turn off 5G on my phone, who needs it?
- So, when you're looking at a cell phone plan in 2022,
5G is not really something you should be thinking
about a ton, but it is,
I mean, to some people it's important,
but really unless you're in like a major urban area
where they have the high band 5G,
- Yup. With good weather, because you need
to be outside for it to work at all.
Who needs cell phone service that goes through doors,
- Yeah, - or windows?
- Everyone. - Everyone.
- Our favorite AT&T plan is an online exclusive,
eight gigabyte prepaid plan.
After eight gigabytes, unlimited low speed data,
unlimited minutes, unlimited messages,
mobile hotspot included, $25 a month.
but the catch is you pay for the full year upfront.
- Right, but the taxes really aren't bad on this one.
- Yeah, it comes at like 304, I think, so it's,
- I don't know how they calculate that,
that doesn't really make a lot of sense, does it?
And it's like, what, one point something percent?
- It's low, but if you can actually eat
that $300 upfront cost, great plan.
- It's a great plan.
Yeah, eight gigabytes high-speed data per month on AT&T,
also a great carrier.
- Yep.
- And 25 bucks a month, again.
- Yeah, now, if 5G is something that's super important
to you, AT&T is currently losing the 5G race,
- They are. - they are in third place
and it is not close. - Nope.
- And I just want to reiterate,
this is an online exclusive offer,
so we'll have links in description to all of these plans,
but you do need to sign up for this one online.
If you go into the store, they're gonna say,
we can't help you out there.
- And you should buy this phone
and you should buy carrier insurance
and you should buy these accessories
and you need to buy this unlimited plan
because it's such a great deal.
And then all of a sudden,
your cell phone bill is $200 a month
and you're like, what happened?
- Now we've mentioned
that the Verizon five gigabyte prepaid plan
doesn't have the international feature anymore.
This plan does include unlimited texting
to over 200 countries, as well as talk, text and data
in Mexico and Canada.
So that might be a differentiating factor for you.
- Yeah, that's cool. - If that's important to you.
- Yeah. - T-Mobile.
It was kind of hard to pick the best T-Mobile plan
because I really don't like the structure
of their prepaid plans
where the data caps are actually hard data caps.
So if you use that 2.5 gigabytes,
- Really? - you get cut off, yeah.
- Wow, that's crazy. - Yep.
- Cut it out. (laughter)
- So what happens? No data?
- So you get no data for the rest of the month.
- No data, just wifi, tough luck?
- You get tough luck.
So T-Mobile, we recommend just paying all the way up.
Get that Magenta Max plan, especially if you have a family,
you know, you get four lines for,
I think it's $43 per month per line.
- It's not bad. - It's pretty good,
and this plan is just, it includes a whole ton of stuff.
So, unlimited high-speed data with no high-speed data cap.
A Netflix basic for one line
or Netflix standard for two or more lines,
40 gigabytes of high speed, mobile hotspot,
a ton of awesome international features,
including unlimited minutes messages and data
in Canada and Mexico.
Access to T-Mobile Tuesday,
which is T-Mobile's customer rewards program.
I think it's the best rewards program out there
and a whole bunch more. - Yeah.
- This plan for one line, however, $85 per month.
So, really that's a lot.
T-Mobile also offers a 10 gigabyte simply prepaid plan
for $40 a month, but you can get the, you know,
about the same plan on the same coverage,
Mint Mobile is a T-Mobile MVNO, for $20 a month,
same amount of gigabytes of data, so,
- Yeah, and if you're going to pay 40 bucks a month
go to Visible.
- Yup. - Yup.
- Our best no data plan.
My favorite is the Ting Flex plan,
and it's different than other no data plans
where it actually gives you the flexibility
to add on one gigabyte of data for $5 a month,
so if you used no data, great $10 a month,
but you also have that flexibility in a pinch
to pay $5 per gigabyte.
Whereas some other, no data plans,
just give you no flexibility, and you're kind of
on your own. - Mhm, yeah.
(dreamy harp music) I'm trying
to envision a situation where someone would want
to have a no data plan.
(record scratching) They just have wifi.
- They just want minutes, messages and wifi.
- Minutes, message, wifi, okay. Yeah. That's cool.
So it's 10 bucks a month,
but you don't have to pay for more than one month at a time.
- Yeah. It's a prepaid plan, so,
- There you go.
- So you know, you're thinking Tello Mobile,
$10 a month for one gigabyte
then unlimited low speed data,
whereas the Tang Flex plan,
maybe you need two one month for whatever reason,
then it's $20,
you just gotta be a little bit careful with this plan
because adding those gigabytes can get really expensive
over time, and if you find yourself using, you know,
three to five gigabytes a month,
just to get a plan that includes that for less money.
- Yeah, totally.
- Those are our favorite cell phone plans of 2022.
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