Smartphone and mobile communications: what is the price of your tariff and which operator do you use? 541 comments
Today’s weekly Sunday question on Techconseil concerns the community’s smartphone purchasing behavior: what was the purchase price of your current model and how often do you change it? There are also three questions on mobile phone rates and broadband volumes.
Table of Contents How much does your tariff cost and which provider do you use? What are the prices of smartphones and community tariffs?Two questions about smartphone purchasing behavior Which mobile phone tariffs do you use? Is the community on the 5G network? Participation is expressly welcomeThe last ten Sunday questions in the overview of motivation and data use
How much do smartphones and community rates cost?
The editorial team last asked the question about the prices of smartphone and cell phone tariffs in the summer of 2023. About a year and a half and many new smartphones later, the second round takes place this Sunday, rounded off by questions about the mobile operator and your strategies. for cheap mobile phone prices.
But it traditionally starts with the cost of mobile devices: How much did your current smartphone cost? If you received your cell phone as part of a cell phone tariff and paid for it monthly, you can either calculate how much money you actually paid for the smartphone or refrain.
You should only enter the recommended retail price of your smartphone if it has actually been paid for.
Two questions about smartphone purchasing behavior
The next investigation will focus on the previously mentioned possibility of not only purchasing new smartphones separately, but also receiving them as part of a mobile phone contract. How did you get your current device?
The editorial team always asks how often Techoutil readers change smartphones in the major community survey which appears at the end of the year. For the sake of completeness, this question is also asked as part of this Sunday question, but this time in a variation: How long have you been using your current device?
What mobile phone rates do you use?
A smartphone without an associated mobile plan is useless. But before moving on to the new edition of the monthly costs question, a new survey should be inserted at this point: Which network are you actually connected to with your smartphone? If you have multiple smartphones and network providers, please select the provider you use most often.
And how much do you pay monthly for your contract? Or do you have a prepaid rate and can change it each month as needed?
Besides price, the second key figure in mobile phone rates is broadband volume. How many GB do you have per month? And what proportion of the community uses a tariff with unlimited broadband volume?
The next question combines the previous two: how much does a single GB of broadband volume cost on your plan? So divide the monthly price of your mobile phone plan by the number of GB of broadband volume you have available each month: monthly costs ÷ data volume in GB = euros per GB.
For example, with a price of 12 euros and 20 GB of data volume, the result would be 60 cents per GB. If you reimburse a smartphone with your contract, you must deduct the resulting additional costs from the monthly bill in order to do not falsify the result.
In Germany, mobile phone rates remain relatively expensive. Are you trying to reduce these costs in any way?
Is the community on the 5G network?
New smartphones will generally support 5G in 2023, although there are still exceptions to pricing. Are you on the 5G network?
Participation is expressly desired
As always, the editorial team is happy to receive well-founded and detailed reasons for your decisions in the comments to the current Sunday question. If you personally have completely different opinions that are not covered by the answer options offered in the article surveys, you can also report them on the forum. Ideas and suggestions for adding content to current or future surveys are also welcome.
Readers who have not yet responded to the previous Sunday’s questions are encouraged to do so, as surveys always take place over a 30-day period. The only condition to participate is a free Techconseil account. There are often still exciting discussions going on on the forum, especially regarding questions from last Sunday.
The last ten Sunday questions at a glance
Desktop audio: Are you using headphones, speakers, headsets, or microphones? Idling Consumption: What does “idling” actually mean to you and is it relevant? 20 years of Half-Life 2: is the shooter really that good and do you still believe in it? to part 3? Memory: How much RAM do you have, how fast is it, and does it have RGB? TV Setups: How big is your TV and what’s connected to it? AMD and Intel: which processors do you have and how fast Core Ultra 200S? Next-gen GPUs: what do you expect from the GeForce RTX 50 and Radeon RX 8000? Gaming graphics cards: which GPU do you have in your PC and how many can he draw lots? Gaming Chat: What do you think of Discord and are you up for it? the CB server? Chrome, Firefox etc. : What browsers do you use on your computer and smartphone?
Motivation and use of data
The data collected within the framework of Sunday Questions is intended solely to make the mood within the community as well as the hardware and software preferences of readers and their development more visible. There is no financial or advertising context and no evaluation for market research purposes or transmission of data to third parties.
Topics: 5G Community Mobile Communications on Smartphones, Sunday Question
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