To be paying £250 per month for broadband and phones

[Kmetsch3]

A family of five, with two teens
We have sky super fast broadband, sky sports, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and 4 smartphones.

Are we, more or less, normal?

We own our phones.

3 x £10 pcm contracts for 4 gb, unlimited calls, unlimited texts

£47 for landline including weekend calls, freeview plus TiVo box to record on, and 100 whatsit broadband.

Plus £6.99 for Netflix.

So total £84 pcm for three people.

Oh yes, plus £12 TC licence

TV

That’s crazy.
£40 sky
£13 sim only deals x 3 unlimited calls and texts and 12 gb data inclu tethering
£39 for amazon for the year
9.99 Netflix

Two of us have iPhones and one smart phone

We buy our phones for £100ish and try to make them do 2 years (works out at around £8 a month?) Our sim only contracts are around £15 each a month. DS got his first phone at 11, basic new smartphone for £35 on a £3.99 a month contract. BT broadband super fast £30 a month, amazon video through my student prime membership, so £39 a year or £3.33 a month?
Total monthly cost around £75 (including cost of phones spread out).
That's all we can afford, however even if I had an extra few hundred a month it wouldn't go on this!

£179 for Sky inc sky sports & BT sport, 2 x iPhones, BT infinity broadband & landline and Spotify family.

Oh that includes amazon prime too!

Well that's up to you, isn't it? It's not unreasonable if you're comfortably affording it, and using the services.

Yes you could pay less if you wanted to. But you're not unreasonable to pay more if you want to.

My 100 mb broadband, and using the virgin media box as a free view box (can still record and access catch up/on demand £33
Netflix £7
Now tv all three passes, £20
Sim only contract (unlimited calls and texts, 4gb of Internet for when out and about) £10.
So £70 per month.

So £17.50 a week, that I don't begrudge paying. Ds will have to be happy with a second hand handset one day, and a sim only contract, so that would then go up to £20.25 a week. If he ever wanted sky sports, I'd have to get the now tv pass, which is £34 a month. Which would be £105 per month. Even with two more cheap sim only deals, (say I ever had a dp and another dc), that would still only be £125 per month. Which would be about my abolute limit.

*By all three passes I mean 3/4 (always forget about the sports. I get entertainment, movies and kids).

We pay about £20 each for phones, £40 for internet, then we have Netflix and Prime on top of that. Maybe £100 a month all-in.

Tbh this has made me think about what we spend and it’s actually quite scary!

Sky is £90 a month for the tv package
Virgin is £60 for broadband
Smartphones are £400+ a month (five adults, two teens)
We also have amazon prime, Apple Music and Netflix.
Then on top of that is all the insurance for the gadgets.
It’s actually stunned me to think how much we spend

I guess if you use everything and feel it is worth it then it is...

I've just switched out contracts, so have reduced our outgoings massively. As of January 2nd:

Children's smartphones: £5 pcm ID mobile plus phones bought outright, so £10 pcm if cost spread over 1 year. X2 = £30 pcm

DH & My phones: Smartphones owned outright from ex-contract. Giffgaff SIMs £7.50 pcm X2 = £15 pcm

NowTV superfast fibre BroadBand/anytime calls/ entertainment package: £45 pcm

Netflix £10
Amazon prime: I'm not counting that as a cost, because we get so many deliveries that it pays for itself.

Total: £100 for a family of 5.

Those of you with sim-only contracts who own their phones, don't forget to take into account the costs of buying and replacing the phones!

Broadband and landline ( unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles) £23 a month.
Two tough small long battery life mobiles - a tenner each a few years ago. Topups £30 a year
Basic sky £21 a month. Never run out of stuff to watch.

No mobile internet but work from home so not needed.

That is an awful lot millerr. Over £550! What do you get, tv wise for £90 a month? (Genuinely intrigued).

£179 for Sky inc sky sports & BT sport

That’s really high, we get it for £120 and that’s landline/broadband too, including sports and BT sports!

I pay £9 for phone contract with 12gb data(sim only), £6 Netflix £36per year for Amazon Prime (student discount although I'm staff...) and we have Mi-Fi as live on a boat and pay £15pm for £20gb data with go Binge (so free streaming of Netflix). Partner tops phone up with £10 credit x 2 year. Total: £34pm

Do you need Sky, Netflix and Prime? I'm considering cancelling Amazon Prime but then it's useful for buying items more than watching for us.

Partner bought his phone 3 years ago for £50 and mine is paid off from an old contract.

My last Samsung s5 was £40 a month contract, and I paid off the phone. Broke it a week later! Bought this one second hand for £100. I don't factor in the cost of the handset itself now, as phones normally last me for years, and I'd consider a replacement an emergency expense more akin to replacing a broken tv. I'll probably never buy a new phone or pay one off on contract again. Ds's first handset will probably be a gift, for his birthday or xmas.

Forgot to add, we don't have a Tv, so no licence and no i don't watch anything on catch-up. Purely Netflix and occasionally Amazon Prime.

I have an EE package which is landline, broadband and 2 sim only mobile contracts with unlimited calls and texts and 8gb data
Total cost £50 a month
I don’t watch much tv so no packages there
We are more into music so have family Spotify which is very little per person
Adult DC pay their own mobile contracts

Possession of a TV is irrelevant to license. If you watch live or use I player you need a licence.

Of course if you are watching anything made by tax paying companies a licence is the ethical choice. So if amazon make all their own programmes, no need.

We pay £45 for MB phone/broadband/cable and £10 per month each for phone contracts (ID mobile) plus £7.99 for Netflix and £7 for Amazon prime. We buy cheap but good phones upfront - Moto G line is good and costs under £200 a phone. They last 3-4 years, so I guess the cost of them is around £5 per phone per month. Total would be £75/month.

Mind boggles.

I pay £25 quid a month for landline with broadband and £11 a month contract (two years) on a Moto G smartphone. Brand new phone at the time and will do same again this June. Have never gone over my monthly allowance on data, texts or calls. Use it on wifi predominantly.

Smart TV. Don't have Sky but did have Now TV for a while at £6 per month for entertainment (so lots of Sky channels) but not sport which I don't watch.