[Electronics-talk] Data plans

[Gerald Levy]

What I don't understand is how someone on a fixed income can afford an 
IPhone, which typically costs $299 plus the $70 or $80 a month for service. 
And that's only if you sign a two-year contract, which is a minimum 
commitment of at least $1500.  And a prepaid IPhone costs about $600, plus 
monthly service, but at least you are not locked into a contract.  It seems 
like almost every blind person is running around with an IPhone these days, 
even though the unemployment rate among the blind is purported to be 70% or 
higher.  Either this figure is bogus, or else there are a lot of affluent 
blind folks out there, or else a lot of blind folks are going hungry  for 
the sake of their IPhones.  Something is definitely wrong with this picture.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 11:03 AM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Data plans


> What I don't understand is how someone on a fixed income can afford a data 
> plan.  I'm employed, and I think the data plan prices I've seen are 
> absolutely ridiculous, way more money than I my use would warrant.
> Are there reasonable data plans out there, or pay-as-you-go?
> Tracy
>
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