Average mobile phone monthly bill

[RoseMartha]

Just wondered what is a reasonable monthly cost . I pay £17 a month £7 of which is paying off the phone. £10 for credit, data and calls.
My dh is paying an absurd amount . He has been paying loads for awhile I mentioned it when I did filing last year and noticed on his bank statement he said it was an error, two months ago he upgraded and said they gave him a really good deal as he had paid too much before ( presumably he meant when I mentioned it) he didn't say what it was but the bill is still ridiculous . He was meant to be paying in region of £25-30 a month. He is paying nearly £100 a month . I recently asked him about constant usage of phone and he told me to mind my own business. Even our child tells him he uses it too much!

It's not the price of the phone that will be causing this. There will not be a monthly contract that costs that much. It's the usage. What are you suspicious about? He's either using way too much and gone over his allowances, subscribed to something that can be billed to the mobile bill e.g. games via PlayStation, premium texts, rang chargeable numbers such as 0800 or 0845 numbers. Is the amount different each month?

I don't think there is ever a need to pay more than £10 a month for texts, calls and data. I see plenty deals with unlimited or very generous usage around that amount. I personally pay £7.50 SIM only and only because that network has better signal - I was previously paying £5 a month and I had 1gb/2gb with unlimited calls and texts with both of those.

Phones I just buy outright so I'm not tied into a contract. I like Google and Samsung phones best.

Can't imagine a phone ever costing £90 a month to pay off so he is definitely paying WAY over the odds.

I'm wondering what else he is paying for. Can you get a look at the bill? There may be a tablet or something else.

I'm only £75 a month for 3 iPhones (a 6,7&8) 2 of which belong to teenage girls so have high data allowances.

£100 for one phone is excessive.

Mine is £50 a month, which is a lot, but includes the phone (iPhone 7) 32gb data (which I need) and Spotify (which would cost me 9.99 a month). It's a lot of money, but I use my phone all the time so don't mind paying for it.

I was paying £50 but now paying £24, the £50 usually included an extra data top up. iPhone 6 on 02, it dropped to £24 once I had paid the handset off

£33 a month for lots of data mostly

Just under £60 a month for my Xperia. Mixture of the phone cost each month and the very high data allowance I chose. Choosing the more expensive plan meant cheaper overseas data, updating the phone yearly and various other perks though. I used to have a cheaper plan, but the added data was probably costing me more. I need the data for work and a voluntary post I have, and use it at home as the WiFi is rubbish.

My partner pays £5 a month, but paid hundreds for his phone upfront (which he then lost in a pub) and his data allowance means he can barely ever use Internet outside the house. He misses messages, can't use Google maps or check his email and it can get throughly annoying, but he doesn't see it as an issue.

Does he need the data, and could he afford a suitable phone upfront?

I pay about £55 for mine and DH is about £75, we got the latest iPhones when they came out and DH has a very high data limit on his. With blooming vodaphone who are crap and as soon as our contracts end we will be swapping! So much hassle with mixed up bills and currently showing a £1700 late cancellation fee on DH credit rating as they kindly restarted his contract when the s was faulty and despite keep calling and them saying nothing is owed they still haven't removed it!!!

£100!

Mines £27, I have 4gb data and unlimited calls and texts with 3 and an iPhone SE. It was half price for the first 6 months too.

We travel a lot to family, so the free European calls for while we’re there and calling them from home is a major plus and why I haven’t gone cheaper for the same package else where.

Sony Xperia, just gone down to sim only and unlimited texts and calls plus 10 gb of data for £17.

I rarely use more than 1 gb of data anyway, between WiFi at home and work. But the 1gb of data was only a quid cheaper so I thought I might as well go for 10gb.

When I was paying off my phone too it was around £35.

Thats with EE.

Seems a huge amount if he hasn't got a brand spanking new premium phone though.

I bought my phone from music magpie for £160 and have a SIM only from o2 which is £18 per month.

I could get cheaper but their customer service is fantastic and I never have a problem with signal unlike some of the companies that offer cheaper deals.