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Here in the UK, my mobile phone bill is £3.33/month and I get 500MB of data with that.

EDIT: I do this by using T-Mobile PAYG and buying their 6 month Internet booster for £20, twice a year. I've managed to convince all my regular contacts to use Kik Messenger instead of SMS, so I don't have to pay for SMS. I very rarely make phone calls, but I have VOIP with localphone.com when I have to.

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Unfortunately that's not an option for many. In the US and Canada, there is absolutely no way to get mobile data for less than $5/mo.

£3.33 is not less than $5

At the time I wrote the post, Google's conversion told me it was in the high $4 range. Right now it's saying it is $5.17. Close enough to let the point stand.

If you are in the UK, I would recommend to check out ovh.co.uk 's voip package. Should work out a lot better than localphone.com

I'm a localphone customer here as I am not in the UK. :/

Just checked out ovh. Looks good, but because of ovh's 99p/month charge, it still works out cheaper to use localphone unless you make at least a couple of hours of calls per month.

I end up using 700 minutes per month just on my line, but I really only talk for about an hour. The majority of my calls are 5-30 second messages from my employer.

You do get an incoming number that would cost a lot more with localphone. You see localphone is a business and needs to make money. OVH thinks it's a charity just like Google. Maybe a little more generous. I absolutely love their kimsufi.co.uk servers.

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