Talk:United States/@comment-26415680-20151017153433/@comment-26415680-20151101215302

I don't have anyone to share the "family" or any similar plans with. Coming as a new immigrant, i wont have proper credit history records for quite a long time (in fact, even a social security number takes quite a while to get), meaning any post-paid plans aren't an option either, unless a company agrees to provide a post-paid plan on a non-US credit card, which they totally don't.

The only reason i am currently considering H2O's prepaid plans to be superior to the direct AT&T prepaid plans is the international calling option, on AT&T its a ridiculously overpriced $10 extra, and even after that it doesn't include calls to Israeli mobiles. The AT&T advantages, from the other side, are roaming in Mexico and Canada (on the $60 plan) and the rollover data.

Sure, i can use VoIP services instead for the international calling, but i do find a direct international dialing, without any extra apps/services/etc, quite convenient and useful, while i don't see myself traveling to Mexico or Canada or exceeding the data limit while needing high speeds badly any often.

About the cost of mobile being expensive, maybe you are right, maybe not. Similar reasoning has been initially used to explain the high mobile prices in Israel less than 10 years before, for example "the companies have to cover the rural areas, while the prices are the same for everyone and should make up for that, keeping the companies profitable" etc, but the fact is, after introducing some government regulations that has allowed some newcomers to get into the mobile market the prices suddenly plummeted, yet the carriers have yet to go bankrupt. So, i don't know, really. None of us knows. We can only speculate.