Thanks to PCPlus points my DW and I are going on 2 yrs of FREE Mobile phone service. We each just redeemed 100,000pts for $100 PCMobile cards on NOTAX day at RCSS. We will replenish our respective PCMobile accounts on, or just prior to, the 1yr anniversary date coming soon, and we're good to go for another year! Yippee!
We've built up balances of $225 and $305 respectively, as of today, with $100 soon to be added to each, and only $5 removed automatically each month to cover our data plan (100Mb). Yeah, that ain't much, but with so many wifi hotspots out there, we are able to cover all our (non-wifi) texting, careful browsing, Voice to Text by Google, etc. well within that allocation. And for the occasional actual phone call (who does that anymore), its just $0.20 per minute coming off the acct balance.
I hear so many people moaning about their sky high monthly smartphone bills, but we have two decent android devices (Samsong Galaxie Sx; and an LG Nexus5) goin all day long ... and its free ... and easy peasy to pull off. ;)
Even before the PCPlus program came along, it was only $8.33 per month per phone ie $100 / 12 = $8.33 ... so no huge mobile phone bills for us. :-)
EDIT: I should point out, that if your Mobile needs include things such as streaming video content like TV shows, NHL Gamecentre,etc. in a NON wifi enabled environment, a cheap monthly data plan like we have won't work for you. Just sayin. ;)
